本片是以美国“911”事件为背景的灾难片,故事重现了当时那场突如其来的灾难。9月11日的一个美妙清晨,消防总署突然警铃大作,接到世贸中心遭到恐怖袭击而倒塌的消息后,消防警员约翰·迈克洛林(尼古拉斯·凯奇 Nicolas Cage 饰)和同事们立即整装赶赴现场,摆在他们眼前的是一幅幅惨绝人寰的画面,坍塌的大厦冒着浓烟,受伤的人们在痛苦地呻吟。为了营救被困在世贸中心里面的人,约翰不顾残楼摇摇欲坠的危险,带着队友冲进了大楼中,然而他们还来不及展开动作,就被二次倒塌的残楼压住了。当约翰在碎石中醒过来时,发现昔日并肩作战的同伴全部殉职,只有一位叫威尔·吉米诺(迈克尔·佩纳 Michael Pena 饰)的警员还幸存着。他们在地狱般的废墟中等待着救援队,面对着渐渐稀少的氧气和随时可能降临的死亡,恐惧、彷徨、伤心、绝望从四面八方缓缓袭来,营救与自救在惊心动魄的24小时内同时展开了……
Marg Duffield (Lee Remick) is the Maine wife of Al (Joseph Sommer) whose daughter Peg (Marlee Matlin) is deaf. Peg's husband is killed in a car accident on the way to visit the Maine house, and the Duffield's take in Peg's six year old daughter, Lisa, while Peg recovers. Since Lisa is a speaking child, Marg thinks of her the way she wanted Peg to be, and seeks guardian custody. Remick's role is secondary to Matlin's, though she is presented as a tragic figure, particularly as Al refuses to help her plan to gain Lisa. Peg's deafness is said to be from a childhood case of spinal meningitis, and the teleplay by Louisa Burns-Bisogno, with story by Louisa and Tom Bisogno, reduces Remick to a textbook mother who is self-hating from guilt and therefore cannot love her own daughter. In a memorable scene, Peg angrily signs her exit to Marg, since Marg has refused to learn sign language, though Peg has learned to speak for her mother. The treatment uses the Tennesee Williams play, The Glass Menagerie, for therapy, to help Peg overcome her grief and also Marg `lose her unicorn horn' and embrace her daughter. Whilst Peg choosing to act in this play may seem an odd choice for someone grieving, what is more noticable is that Matlin is far too more glamourous to be believable as Laura. The Bisogno's include Michael O'Keefe as Dan, Peg's deceased husband's best friend and director of Actors Theatre for the Deaf, to offer Peg a new romantic interest, and thankfully she rebukes his protestations of love. Although his opinion may be influenced by his `crush', Dan tells Peg that being different is better than being normal, since the normal ones are as `common as weeds'. This philosophy reads as rather Nietzschean, on the level of artists not being restricted to the common moral code. Director Karen Arthur either has those signing also speaking or those signing being translated for the audience, though in one scene the sound of lapping waves drowns out the dialogue between Dan and Peg. She also gives Matlin some good moments, one being her scream of horror when she hears the news of the death of her husband, and another when she chases Remick down a flight of steps, hitting her.
Exploring the mass gang movement that originated in Birmingham and other industrial cities in the 19th century and evolved into modern gangsterism in the early 20th.
和丈夫离婚后,朱丽叶(希拉里·斯万克 Hilary Swank 饰)的生活走入了低谷,为了重振士气,她决定搬家。新的环境,新的邻居,友好又善良的房东麦克斯(杰弗里·迪恩·摩根 Jeffrey Dean Morgan 饰),这一切让朱丽叶总算是解开了心中长久以来的郁结。
随着时间的推移,一些奇怪的事情开始在朱丽叶的周围发生,预感告诉朱丽叶,有一个充满了邪恶气息的陌生人如影随形般地监视着自己的一举一动。为了找到幕后黑手,朱丽叶在房间里设置了录影机,真相让朱丽叶汗毛倒竖,原来,那个神出鬼没的不速之客竟然正是房东麦克斯。更糟糕的是,当朱丽叶拼尽全力企图接近真相之时,她也正在一步一步的走入麦克斯为她设下的圈套之中。