The Guys (2002)
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Reviews Counted: 61
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 17
A moving tribute.
Average Rating: 6.1/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 8
A moving tribute.
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In the wake of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington D.C., of September 11, 2001, Jim Simpson, the creative director of New York City's Flea Theater Company, wanted to stage a theater piece which would deal with the human impact of this tragedy. When Simpson met journalist Anne Nelson, he discovered a true life story which dealt with the September 11 incidents in an intimate but affecting manner, and he encouraged her to adapt her story into a play; the drama quickly became a
Apr 25, 2003 Limited
Sep 9, 2003
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A well-intentioned misfire that doesn't work in the way it intended.
Top CriticA noble attempt, but not much more.
Weaver, LaPaglia and director Simpson have little problem keeping us involved as they grapple with conflicting feelings in the ways nearly all Americans did.
One of those rare and exemplary motion pictures that is likely to make audiences of strangers want to hold hands.
If anyone needs reminding of those profound post-9/11 feelings, now or later, The Guys will be there to do it.
The sobriety of the play has been preserved at the expense of the movie.
The occasional intercut of fire department surveillance camera footage isn't exactly making the most of the cinema medium.
Painfully earnest but sporadically quite moving...
The Guys accurately reflects all the helplessness and directionless determination of those unreal days.
If you want an idea of what New York was like in the immediate days after 9/11, here you go.
A quietly moving character study, The Guys pays eloquent tribute to the heroic New York City firefighters who died on 9/11.
[An example of our instinct to] moderate collective tragedies into easily-digested cud for bovine mastication on the Oprah show.
Do not miss this film.
A modest masterpiece.
Besides the fact that it's about 9/11, it's also an effective film because you learn something about the lives of the firemen who are willing to lay down their lives for our safety, which was true long before the year 2001
What makes the movie work - to an admittedly limited extent - is the commitment of two genuinely engaging performers. Weaver and LaPaglia are both excellent, in the kind of low-key way that allows us to forget that they are actually movie folk.
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Sigourney Weaver, didnt do that great of a job, I didnt think either, personally.
Anthony LaPaglia does great though.
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This movie reminds me of Flight 93 also known as United 93 although not very much going on a bit slow and you could say boring but its harsh to say this when its based on real events and is truly sad. Like Flight 93 at the end it made me blubber it dedicated the movie to the fallen firefighters and listed every single one of there names and it got really emotional and sad!
Anthony Lapaglia plays a chief fireman who is ment to write something for memorials of his fallen men but cant think of anything to write so he asks for a journalist played by sigourney weaver for her help and between them they write speeches! This movie is majority set in weavers house with just te two of them talking! If you want excitement then this isnt the movie for you! Really this film isnt predictable becuase its hard to see where this movie is going because you sort expect more from this movie but it just doesnt cut it!
i guess its worth a watch because it is a short movie and does get emotional!