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World Trade Center - Movie Summary

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World Trade Center was released on August 9, 2006 by Paramount Pictures. It is academy award winning, full color film detailing the events and survival of Port Authority Police Sergeant John McLoughlin and Officer William Jimeno after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. The film follows the officers and their families throughout the day of the attack. The roles of McLoughlin and Jimeno are excellently played by Nicholas Cage and Michael Peña respectively. Jay Hernandez, Maria Bello and Maggie Gyllenhaal all have smaller yet supporting roles as Officer Dominick Pezzulo, Donna McLoughlin and Allison Jimeno. Sergeant John McLoughlin, William J. Jimeno and Dominick Pezzulo were officers assigned to New York City's Port Authority on September 11th, 2001 when they received the emergency call. The officers get on a city bus and head towards the towers. McLoughlin, Jimeno and Pezzulo were among the policemen who attempted to evacuate the World Trade Center towers after they were struck by planes piloted by terrorists. All three men fled to an elevator shaft inside the fifth building concourse of the World Trade Center when the towers began to fall. McLoughlin is trapped much lower than Jimeno and Pezzulo. Jimeno is pinned with heavy concrete on his chest, while Pezzulo only received a few scratches. The rubble moves a second time when tower one collapses and Pezzulo is trapped between concrete. He tells Jimeno to remember he died trying to save their lives and he eventually succumbs to his injuries while McLoughlin and Jimeno struggled to stay alive as rescuers search through the rubble. They talk about their families and reminisce of happy times in their lives. They pray and focus on their wives and children. Eventually they are found by two marine reservists and a civilian .Meanwhile, their wives desperately hope that their husbands survived and would come home. They have flashbacks of their husbands with their kids and good

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