World Trade Center (film)

World Trade Center
A silhouette of the Twin Tower buildings of the World Trade Center
Theatrical release poster
Directed byOliver Stone
Written byAndrea Berloff
Produced by
Starring
CinematographySeamus McGarvey
Edited by
Music byCraig Armstrong
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
  • August 9, 2006 (2006-08-09)
Running time
129 minutes[1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$65 million[2]
Box office$163.2 million[2]

World Trade Center is a 2006 American docudrama disaster film[3] directed by Oliver Stone and written by Andrea Berloff. Starring Nicolas Cage and Michael Peña, the film is based on the experience of a team of New York City police officers during the September 11 attacks, in which they were trapped inside the rubble of the collapsed World Trade Center.

The film was shot between October 2005 and February 2006, and theatrically released in the United States by Paramount Pictures on August 9, 2006. It was met with generally positive reviews from critics and grossed $163 million worldwide.

  1. ^ "WORLD TRADE CENTER (12A)". British Board of Film Classification. August 14, 2006. Retrieved November 12, 2016.
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference BOM was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "World Trade Center (2006) - Oliver Stone". AllMovie.