Homeland Security (film)
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Paramount Network Television | |
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Network | NBC |
Release | April 11, 2004 |
Homeland Security is a 2004 American
Plot
Admiral Theodore McKee is retired, when following the events of 9/11 he receives a call from the White House informing him that his commander in chief requires him to serve his country once again. Shortly after this he is sworn into office as a senior member of the Office of Homeland Security (OHS) under Tom Ridge. Once in office Admiral McKee faces the challenge of organizing this new office so as to prevent further terrorist attacks against the United States. With this in mind Admiral McKee's wife, Elise, recommends he speak to his friend, NSA agent Sol Binder.
Following a meeting with Binder, McKee recruits him into OHS. After which Binder comes up with a plan for the new agency, all law enforcement agencies within the United States will have to put their rivalries aside and funnel all intelligence into the OHS. We first meet Binder at the beginning of the film prior to the events of 9/11, where he is meeting with a group of NSA agents with intelligence on a planned terrorist attack that is to take place in the United States where the number Nine and Eleven keep popping up, it is not until the day of the attacks that Binder was able to piece it together. It is Binder's belief that had there been a cooperative organization such as the OHS, the attacks could have been averted.
While the main concern of the film is the establishment of the OHS, which following Congress' approval would become the
That is not all Melissa saw that day. After the Pentagon was attacked, military command had received the executive order to investigate various aircraft that were off course, including Melissa's later flight, and to shoot down any that failed to comply with visual command. In a fictional engagement, three military jets engage the airliner, setting off the near collision alarm, one positioning itself in front of the airliner, another to the left. The nervous jet pilot behind the airliner nearly shoots it down before the airliner pilots comply with visual command and respond. The jet pilot is ordered to stand down, take a deep breath, and escort the airliner to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, where Melissa first vigorously demands to know if they had almost been shot down. From a pay phone, Melissa called her parents and her boyfriend. Melissa demands from her mother, "Who is doing this to us?"
Cast
- Scott Glenn as Joe Johnson
- Tom Skerritt as Admiral Theodore McKee
- Andrew Robinson as Senator
- Grant Show as Bradley Brand
- Marisol Nichols as Jane Fulbar
- Kal Penn as Harrison
- Ross Gibby as Frank Heinhoff
- Leland Orser as Sol Binder
- Stephi Lineburg as Melissa McKee
- Beth Broderick as Elise McKee
- Nicholas Guilak as Saif Khan
- Glenn Morshower as General Eaton
- Al Faris as Dr. Adel
- Christopher Maher as Hamid Karzai
- Vahe Bejan as Brushenko
- Alex Dodd as Achmed
- Sayed Badreya as Jamaitja
- Reynaldo Rosalesas Tom
Production
NBC picked up the pilot in January 2003.[1] Filming took place in Los Angeles.[2]
Reception
The film was poorly received and was cancelled even before it started as a TV show. As one review said "And don't be fooled by names like Tom Skerritt and Scott Glenn; Homeland Security is a bland and fairly tasteless bullet-point history lesson on how the 9/11 attacks happened, how a bunch of generic TV characters deal with it, and how many soaring musical strains can be employed while the rah-rah chest-thumping speechifying goes on in front of a flapping American flag." (DVDtalk.com)
Home release
Region 1 | Region 2 |
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August 23, 2005 | N/A |
See also
- September 11, 2001 attacks
- Flight 93 (TV film)
- United 93 (film)
- World Trade Center (film)
References
- ^ Schneider, Michael (January 23, 2003). "Nets' pilots tackle terror". Variety. Retrieved March 1, 2022.
- ^ Lowry, Brian (April 7, 2004). "Homeland Security". Variety. Retrieved March 1, 2022.