The film takes place prior to the September 11 attacks in 2001, and though based on the findings of the actual 9/11 Commission Report made after the attacks, the film fictionalizes some elements of the report for the sake of artistic license.
Based on three short plays by Susan Charlotte, the film follows the lives of six characters: a shoemaker and his customer, a cabbie and his passenger, and a dyslexic director and his date.
In 2001 Japanese American painter, Jimmy Mirikitani (born Tsutomu Mirikitani), and over 80 years old, was living on the streets of lower Manhattan. Filmmaker, Linda Hattendorf, took an interest and began
Quelques jours avant le 11 septembre 2001, différents personnages se retrouvent à Venise pour s'entrecroiser dans une ambiance sulfureuse où règne un sentiment préapocalyptique.
Ali (Amit Sial) is a photographer and bike messenger who lives in New York. He develops a friendship and falls in love with a married woman, Saloni Oberoi (Mahima Chaudhry). When her husband, Harry Oberoi (Vikram Chatwal), is killed during the September 11 attacks, Harry's father, a retired Colonel (Anupam Kher), begins to take his aggressions out on Ali for being a Muslim. Although Mrs. Oberoi (Suhasini Mulay) tries to stop the Colonel's behavior, the situation escalates as the Colonel, himself, becomes the target of social post-9/11 aggression directed towards him because he is a Sikh.
The story revolves around a group of people who were not connected to each other in any way other than by ill fate. These were people from different parts of India who had traveled to the US and now were boarding the ill-fated flights that crashed into the Twin Towers and Pentagon on 9/11. The story tells us about the horror of the hijack and some of the incidents that occurred on board during those horrific minutes. Some of the characters in the film die in the accident.
Une quarantaine de passagers embarque à bord du vol 93 reliant Newark, aéroport de New York, à San Francisco. Peu de temps après le décollage du Boeing 757, deux avions de ligne détournés par des pirates de l'air viennent s'encastrer dans les tours du World Trade Center. Quelques minutes plus tard, quatre terroristes s'emparent du vol 93 avec l'objectif d'atteindre la Maison Blanche...
The miniseries presented a dramatization of the sequence of events leading to the September 11, 2001 attacks by Al Qaeda on the United States, starting from the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and up to the minutes after the collapse of the World Trade Center in 2001. The point of view of the movie is from two primary protagonists: John P. O'Neill, and a composite Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) agent, "Kirk". O'Neill was the real-life Special Agent in charge of Al Qaeda investigations at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He died in the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11 shortly after retiring from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and taking the position of Director of Security for the World Trade Center. The composite CIA agent "Kirk" is shown dealing with various American allies, especially Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Massoud, in Afghanistan. In addition, "Patricia", a CIA headquarters analyst, represents the views of the rank and file at CIA headquarters. The miniseries features dramatizations of various incidents summarized in the 9/11 Commission Report, and represented in high level discussions held within both the Clinton and Bush administrations. The final hour of the movie dramatizes the events of 9/11, including a re-creation of the second plane entering the World Trade Center, Tom Burnett's calls to his wife, and John Miller's reporting near the scene of the attacks. The film concludes with information about the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission, as well as the performance evaluation the Commission gave the government when it reconvened in 2005.
Les fêtes de fin d'année se préparent à Los Angeles. Un vol de voiture, un accident de la route. Des individus de couches sociales et ethniques différentes sont amenés à se croiser. Une peinture réaliste sur la composition de l'Amérique d'aujourd’hui et de son communautarisme exacerbé où la différence, qu'elle soit sociale ou raciale, est omniprésente dans les rapports humains et où personne n'est ni tout noir ni tout blanc.