On September 11, 2001, members of the Port Authority Police are dispatched to Midtown Manhattan in response to the North Tower of the World Trade Center having been hit by a plane. The officers learn en route that the South Tower also was hit by another plane. Sergeant John McLoughlin, veteran of the 1993 bombing, assembles a group of volunteers including officers Will Jimeno and Dominick Pezzulo, to retrieve rescue equipment from Building 5. As they begin to climb the stairs of the North Tower, the South Tower collapses onto them and traps them under the rubble. McLoughlin, Jimeno, and Pezzulo are the only survivors, but they are trapped beneath the rubble. Pezzulo is killed by a piece of rubble but not before giving a signal as to their whereabouts. Now Jimeno and McLoughlin spend painful, terrifying hours under the rubble telling each other about their lives. Meanwhile, their families try to learn if they are still alive. Nicholas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, and Maria Bello leads; co-starring Stephen Dorff, Jay Hernandez, Michael Shannon, Donna Murphy, and Frank Whaley; also starring Viola Davis, Jon Bernthal, Patti D'Arbanville, Jude Ciccolella, Brad William Henke, Peter McRobbie, Ned Eisenberg, Danny Nucci, Nicholas Turturro, Dorothy Lyman, Armando Riesco, and Tom Wright. Oliver Stone directs from an adaptation by Andrea Berloff; Based on the true life events of John & Donna McLoughlin and William & Allison Jimeno. Produced by Michael Shemberg, Stacey Sher & Moritz Borman and Debra Hill; Executive Producers: Donald J. Lee, Jr. and Norm Golightly. Music Composed by Craig Armstrong; Music Supervisor: Budd Carr • Soundtrack album available on Sony Classical. Prod VFX Supervisor: John Scheele • VFX by DNeg [uk]. a Michael Shamberg/Stacey Sher/Moritz Borman production for Paramount Pictures; produced in association with Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH & Co.. an Oliver Stone film. Filmed in New York and New Jersey and in part at the stages at Playa Vista, CA from October 19, 2005 - February 10, 2006. Approved [#42823]/rated PG-13 for intense and emotional content, for some disturbing images, and for language Copyright © MMVI by Kernos Filmproduktionsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG All Rights Reserved