United 93 (2006)
95%RT Audience Score: 83%
Awards & Nominations: Nominated for 2 Oscars
29 wins & 57 nominations total
Potent and sobering, United 93 treats the subject matter with respect, never resorting to Hollywood aggrandizement.
United 93 is a film that will leave you on the edge of your seat, even if you already know the outcome. The tension is palpable, and the performances are so realistic that you’ll feel like you’re right there on the plane with the passengers. While it’s not exactly a feel-good movie, it’s an important one that reminds us of the bravery and sacrifice of those who fought back against the terrorists on 9/11. So grab some tissues and buckle up for a bumpy ride.
Production Company(ies)
Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment,
Distributor
Universal Pictures
Release Type
Theatrical
Filming Location(s)
Morocco
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for language, and some intense sequences of terror and violence (appeal planned)
Year of Release
2006
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:DTS Dolby Digital SDDS
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:1h 51m
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Language(s):English, Arabic, German
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Release Date (Theaters): Apr 28, 2006 Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 5, 2006
Genre(s)
Drama
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: $76,700,659
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): $113,107,169
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 959
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): 12,334,479
US/Canada gross: $31,483,450
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): $46,427,292
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): 1,107
US/Canada opening weekend: $11,478,360
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): $16,926,645
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): 733
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $15,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $22,119,856
Production budget ranking: 1,319
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $11,911,542
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): $79,075,771
ROI to date (est.): 232%
ROI ranking: 568
Richard Bekins – William Joseph Cashman
Susan Blommaert – Jane Folger
Ray Charleson – Joseph DeLuca
Christian Clemenson – Thomas E. Burnett Jr.
Khalid Abdalla – Ziad Jarrah
Director(s)
Paul Greengrass
Writer(s)
Paul Greengrass
Producer(s)
Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Lloyd Levin
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 2 Oscars
29 wins & 57 nominations total
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
All Critics (210) | Top Critics (58) | Fresh (189) | Rotten (21)
The film pulls you into its world, turns you a passive participant. You can feel the desperation of the passengers and as they run to the cockpit…
January 18, 2019 | Rating: 3/4
Namrata Joshi
Outlook
TOP CRITIC
What might be therapeutic for the families is not perhaps meant for public consumption. After all, few things are more private than the last minutes of a life.
September 26, 2017
Victoria Segal
New Statesman
TOP CRITIC
This is first-rate, visceral filmmaking: taut, watchful, free of false histrionics, as observant of the fear in the young terrorists’ eyes as the hysteria in the passenger cabin, and smart enough to know this material doesn’t need to be sensationalized.
November 1, 2007
David Ansen
Newsweek
TOP CRITIC
Greengrass takes pains to keep events believable and relatively unrhetorical, rejecting entertainment for the sake of sober reflection, though one has to ask how edifying this is apart from its reduction of the standard myths.
December 26, 2006
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago Reader
TOP CRITIC
Impossible to recommend as a great Friday night out, yet agonisingly vital as thought-urging cinema.
November 4, 2006 | Rating: 5/5
Dan Jolin
Empire Magazine
TOP CRITIC
United 93 terrifyingly conveys the nature of the threat facing the world today and poignantly conveys onscreen the decision by a few brave individuals to fight back.
September 28, 2006
Ali Jaafar
Sight & Sound
TOP CRITIC
It’s hard to imagine a less sensationalized 9/11 film than this riveting docudrama.
January 20, 2021 | Rating: 4/4
Matt Brunson
Film Frenzy
A magnificent, superb film. [Full Review in Spanish]
February 14, 2020
Alberto Abuín
Espinof
An exquisite and respectful masterpiece that resonates with power, intensity and raw emotion, making it 2006’s best film.
November 19, 2019 | Rating: A
Micheal Compton
Bowling Green Daily News
A well-crafted and respectful film. If only it had gone one step further in driving that point home.
June 5, 2019 | Rating: 3/4
Mattie Lucas
The Dispatch (Lexington, NC)
All that United 93 can tell us. . .is that many people are brave and some people are dastardly.
August 18, 2017
Daniel Mendelsohn
The New York Review of Books
It’s a difficult and upsetting experience but a worthwhile one, which will linger in your mind long after the film ends.
March 22, 2016 | Rating: 4/4
Hannah Brown
Jerusalem Post…
Plot
On September 11, 2001, two American Airlines and two United Airlines domestic U.S. flights are hijacked by terrorists. After the collision of two planes against the World Trade Center and one against the Pentagon, the passengers and crew of United Flight 93 decide to struggle against the four terrorists to take back the control of the airplane.
Trivia
Goofs / Tidbits
The cast of United 93 is largely made up of relative unknowns.
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