World Trade CenterCategoria Film: Drama
The film tells the tragic experience of two men, police
port of New York (USA), who were involved in the attack the Twin Towers in Manhattan
September 11, 2001.
is the dawn of a sunny and warm autumn
New York . As every morning, John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage), Port Authority Police Department sergeant of the city to leave their homes to go to work. In the central meets his friends and colleagues: Will Jimeno (Michael Peña), Dominick Pezzulo (Jay Hernandez), Antonio Rodrigues (Armando I can) and many others. All is quiet in the Big Apple. The sergeant assigns tasks to the usual agents: Keep an eye on the homeless who wander the streets, patrolling the crowded streets of the city, of all things routine. But there is the unbelievable: a shadow passes over the heads of very busy New Yorkers. Then the roar. A plane crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. McLoughlin is now preparing the emergency vehicles.
reaching the disaster site, but the sergeant and a few brave men (among whom there is Will Jimeno and Dominick Pezzulo) decide to enter the South Tower to rescue the civilians still trapped. The group of rescuers entered the hell of the tower. A few minutes later, the building began to tremble in a very short time the tower collapsed, burying the handful of rescuers.
In the darkness of the rubble, only three policemen were saved: Sergeant McLoughlin, Jimeno and Pezzulo. The latter eventually freed, and try to help Jimeno, trapped beneath a heavy piece of steel. Just then, the earth shook for a second time: the second tower was collapsing. The three are invested by a new burst of debris. A huge piece of concrete hit Pezzulo, crushing the chest to the ground. After pulled out his gun from his pocket, with his last strength you fire a shot in the head, putting an end to his agony. Hours go by and relief slow to arrive and the two men are slowly dying, hungry, wounded, crushed by heavy blocks of iron and cement, they know they can not live much longer. Just when it seems that nothing more can be done, a volunteer from the Marine Corps, Dave Karnes, helped by Mr Jason Thomas, tracking them.
