Curfew (film)

Couvre-feu ( The Sits ) is an American film carried out by Edward Zwick, left in 1998.

Synopsis

Three agents of the competitor American secret services want to inquire and dismantle networks of terrorist cells sowing the disorder in New York while those become extensive more and more and become increasingly dangerous.

Data sheet

Title: Curfew
Québécois Title: the Seat
original Title: The Sits
Réalisation: Edward Zwick
Scenario: Lawrence Wright, Menno Meyjes and Edward Zwick
Production: Lynda Obst, Edward Zwick, Jonathan Filley, Robin Budd and Peter Schindler
Production company: Twentieth Century Fox
Budget: 70 million dollars (53,12 million euros)
Music: Graeme Revell
Photography: Roger Deakins
Assembly: Steven Rosenblum
Decorations: Lilly Kilvert
Costumes: Ass Roth
Country of origin: the United States
Format: Colors - 2,35:1 - Dolby DIGITAL/SDDS - 35 mm
Kind: Action, thriller
Lasted: 116 minutes
Comings out date: November 6th 1998 (the United States), December 16th 1998 (Belgium, France)

Distribution

Denzel Washington: Anthony “Hub” Hubbard
Annette Bening: Elects Kraft/Sharon Bridger
Bruce Willis: the general William Devereaux
Tony Shalhoub: Frank Haddad
Sami Bouajila : Samir Nazhde
Ahmed Ben Larby: Sheik Achmed Bin Talal
Mosleh Mohamed: Muezzin
Lianna Feeds: Tina Osu
Mark Valley: the agent of the FBI Mike Johanssen
Jack Gwaltney: Fred Darius
David Proval: Danny Sussman
Lance Reddick: the agent of the FBI Floyd Pink
Aasif Mandvi: Khalil Saleh

Around film

turning began the January 28th 1998 and was held with New York.
the film takes as a starting point the Attentat of Oklahoma City.
In 1998, the realizer Edward Zwick was shown of racism towards the Moslems. The massive internment of young Arabic of Brooklyn describes in film is one of the discussed elements and the general way in which Arabic is introduced in the scenario was judged (in particular by American-Arab Committee Anti-Discrimination) like an insult. " Each time Arabic achieves the ritual to wash the hands before the prayer, this image announces to the spectator that there will be violence ". It what the realizer answered that " some " méchants" in film were members of the government of the United States " and " a film is still not made to make people comfortable but also to make them reflect ".
According to CNN, a certain number of American would have paid their place only to see the band announces Star Wars: episode I - The phantom Threat projected ahead first, for then arising from the room without very seeing film.

Original soundtrack

First You Cry , interpreted by Little Buster and the Drunk Brothers
Great Leap Forward , interpreted by Simple Minds

Distinctions

Price of the worst actor for Bruce Willis, at the time of the Razzie Awards in 1999.

External bond

Curfew on Internet Movie Database

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