Flight 93 (2006)
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70% of users liked it
(20,823 ratings)
Although al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners on September 11, 2001, only three reached their intended targets. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 that departed late from Newark to San Francisco, crash-landed near Pittsburgh instead of becoming a weapon against the White House… More Although al-Qaida terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners on September 11, 2001, only three reached their intended targets. United Airlines Flight 93, a Boeing 757 that departed late from Newark to San Francisco, crash-landed near Pittsburgh instead of becoming a weapon against the White House or the United States Capitol. This speculative cable-TV docudrama imagines how the flight might have played out for the flight's passengers, who are believed to have risen up against their hijackers after being alerted to the other terrorist attacks via cell phone. Unfolding in more or less real time, Flight 93 depicts the hijacking from the viewpoints of those on the flight and those on the ground. Tom Burnett (Jeffrey Nordling), Mark Bingham (Ty Olsson), Todd Beamer (Brennan Elliott), and many of the flight's other, posthumously famous passengers are portrayed, as are their families, law-enforcement agents, air-traffic controllers, United employees, and cell-phone company personnel. Flight 93 originally aired in January 2006 on the A&E cable network, several months after the Discovery Channel debuted its documentary The Flight That Fought Back and several months before the feature film United 93 premiered. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi
- Directed By
- Peter Markle
- Genres
- Drama, Television, Mystery & Suspense
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Dec 31, 2005 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Charles Cassady, Common Sense Media
Tense made-for-TV movie about Sept.11 skyjacking.
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Ted Murphy, Murphy's Movie Reviews
Both films serve as a vivid reminder of the heroism of these men and women. Because it involves those left behind, FLIGHT 93 carries more emotional weight, but that may be expected from a movie made for television and designed to appeal to the masses.
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Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall
The film is put together for us to watch what happens, not to participate with them.
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David Cornelius, eFilmCritic.com
Flight 93 is most certainly destined to be overshadowed by United 93, but this should not diminish what Markle and company have done here.
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Pablo Villaca, Cinema em Cena
Apesar de se entregar ao melodrama em um ou outro momento, de modo geral consegue manter o foco da narrativa e conferir um tom de verossimilhança aos acontecimentos.
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Cast
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Jeffrey Nordling
as Tom Burnett
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Brennan Elliott
as Todd Beamer
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Kendall Cross
as Deena Burnett
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Ty Olsson
as Mark Bingham
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Monnae Michaell
as Lisa Jefferson
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Colin Glazer
as Jeremy Glick
- Adam Harrington
- April Telek
- Gwynyth Walsh
- Jerry Wasserman
- Karen Holness
- Kirsten Williamson
- Laura Mennell
