Vantage Point
Cast
Dennis Quaid ... Thomas Barnes
Matthew Fox ... Kent Taylor
Forest Whitaker ... Howard Lewis
Bruce McGill ... Phil McCullough
Edgar Ramirez ... Javier
Saïd Taghmaoui ... Suarez
Ayelet Zurer ... Veronica
Zoe Saldana ... Angie Jones
Sigourney Weaver ... Rex Brooks
William Hurt ... President Ashton
Director: Peter Travis
Written by: Barry Levy
Theatrical Release Date: 13 February 2008 (Spain)
Plot
In Columbia Pictures' Vantage Point, Thomas Barnes (Dennis Quaid) and Kent Taylor (Matthew Fox) are two Secret Service agents assigned to protect President Ashton (William Hurt) at a landmark summit on the global war on terror.
When President Ashton is shot moments after his arrival in Spain, cahos ensues and disperate lives collide. In the crowd is Howard Lewis (Forest Whitaker) and American tourist video-taping the historic event to show his kids when he returns home. Also there is Rex (Sigourney Weaver) an American TV news producer who is reporting on the conference. It's only as we follow each person's perspective of the same 15 minutes prior to and immediately after the shooting that the terrifying truth behind the assassintation attempt is revealed.
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