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Release Date
• USA: Apr 28, 2006
Budget USD 15,000,000
BoxOffice: $31.5M
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MPAA Rating
Rated R for language, and some intense sequences of terror and violence (appeal planned).
Running Time
1 hour, 30 minutes
Country France, UK, USA
Production Companies
Sidney Kimmel Entertainment, Studio Canal, Universal Pictures, Working Title Films
Studio Universal Pictures
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Other Titles
• Flight 93
• United 93 (2006)
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Genre: Drama
Tagline: September 11, 2001. Four planes were hijacked. Three of them reached their target. This is the story of the fourth.
Plot: UNITED 93, director Paul Greengrass's meticulous reconstruction of the events surrounding the crash--the result of a heroic struggle between the passengers and hijackers--of the fourth plane to be hijacked on September 11, 2001, is a landmark in filmmaking. Greengrass has chosen the most politically and emotionally charged source material available to an artist in the early 21st century, and shaped it into a psychologically draining, terrifyingly real, and technically brilliant film. Like his first feature-length work, BLOODY SUNDAY, UNITED 93 doesn't follow a traditional cinematic narrative structure; via hand-held cameras, grainy DV stock, and frenetic editing, it instead presents a visceral (at times sickening) in-the-moment documentary-style experience that maximizes the film's unavoidable air of tension and dread without being crassly manipulative. Yet for all of its precision and craft, UNITED 93 still depicts one of the most terrifying ordeals the United States has ever had to face--and that it was released less than five years after those events took place plays an undeniably enormous role in how the film is received. It is impossible to watch UNITED 93 and not be profoundly moved, whether that emotion is fear, sadness, anxiety, or pure rage. And it is an emotional
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Seeing United 93 represents a difficult film-going experience, and one that should not be undertaken lightly. It's hard to imagine anyone not being affected on some level by United 93. But the value of what this picture imparts is worth the challenge of sitting through it. When I compile my Top 10 list of films for 2006, United 93 will be on it, and almost certainly close to the top.  --James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
I can't enthusiastically endorse this movie to everyone. For some, it will be hard to relive the events of 9/11, and it will take a lot longer for them to be ready to see a film like this. Greengrass has created such realistic reenactments of the events that viewing this film is often uncomfortable and even voyeuristic, but there's an immediacy and urgency to the material that almost makes it mandatory viewing for anyone still seeking answers or even closure.--Edward Douglas (ComingSoon.net)
...is not an easy movie to watch but, like a witness to a horrible accident, you can’t take your eyes off of it. There is much food for thought to be digested here and this film will stay with you for a long time, just like the real event it depicts. A-,B--Robin and Laura Clifford
Five years ago, 40 ordinary people—men and women of disparate ages, races, backgrounds, nationalities, religions, sexual orientations, and politics, and most complete strangers to one another—banded together and altered the history of the world. For a society for which 9/11 has become a fading dream, it isn't too soon for a film like United 93. It never can be.  --Daniel Briney
Greengrass’ honorable film joins similar memorials erected to honor the dead, standing tall as it pays tribute to the Americans that gave their lives that day in the name of freedom. --Sean O'Connell (FilmCritic.com)
UNITED 93 is not just respectful in that it doesn’t sentimentalize those who died, it’s also a gripping drama made all the more potent for being played out by ordinary people rising to the occasion... --Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
If you believe you can watch this from an objective point of view, think again. This isn’t so much a film as a memorial to the victims of 9/11. My advice is if you’re willing to put yourself through the experience, bring plenty of tissues. A--Rebecca Murray (About.com)
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| As difficult as it is to even consider watching it, this is a truly must-see motion picture, and another important piece in the continuing comprehension of what took place that ordinary September morning. --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
This movie has you witness a horrible event that will leave a lump in your throat, unless of course you're just another Bush hating conspiracy whack job who wants to see something that is never shown.  --Eric Nash (TheMovieBuffs.com)
...Other than that, even though we all know the ending, this is a superb, not-to-be-missed film that compellingly recreates the events of that tragic day. 9/10--Tony Medley (TonyMedley.com)
...This might be the closest they'll be able to come to knowing all these things. The story will become myth and legend; and, when done well in a film like United 93, pure power. 9/10--Jeffrey Chen (WindowToMovies.com)
Unflinching account of the terror aboard the fourth hijacked plane on Sept. 11 provokes deep, disturbing emotions.--Kirk Honeycutt (Hollywod Reporter)
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