The Siege

FBI Special Agent Anthony Hubbard (Denzel Washington) and his Lebanese American partner, Frank Haddad (Tony Shalhoub), intervene at the hijacking of a bus fully loaded with passengers, which contains an explosive device. The bomb turns out to be a paint bomb and the terrorists escape. The FBI receives demands to release Sheikh Ahmed bin Talal, a suspect in an earlier bombing. Hubbard eventually comes into conflict with Central Intelligence Agency operative Elise Kraft (Annette Bening), as he takes a terrorist suspect into custody and arrests Kraft. Later, another terrorist threat is made and a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus is bombed. FBI captures a man named Samir Nazhde (Sami Bouajila), who admits to signing the visa application of one of the suicide bombers in the course of signing many applications for student visas in his job as a lecturer. However, Kraft insists that Samir is not a terrorist and that his continued freedom is vital to the investigation.

MPAA Rating:R
Genre:Action, Thriller
Country:United States
Produced By:Robin Budd, Jonathan Filley, Bruce Devan, Peter Schindler, Edward Zwick, Lynda Obst
Directed By:Edward Zwick
Written By:Lawrence Wright, Menno Meyjes, Edward Zwick
Cast:Dave Mallow, Christian Chase, Mosleh Mohamed, Andy Redmond, Jeremy Knaster, Mike Akrawi, Luis Moro, Dakin Matthews, Buzz Cartier, Robert Scheer, Tim Maloney, Chris Messina, William Hill, Ronald Kuby, Mark Valley, Frank DiElsi, Patrick Russo, Amro Salama, Annette Bening, Ahmed Ben Larby, Joey Naber, Tom McDermott, Tom Malloy, Garry Pastore, Aasif Mandvi, Graham Larson, Alex Chadwick, Susan Stamberg, Angel Katherine Taormina, Neal Jones, Arianna Huffington, George F. Miller, Matt Miller, David Costabile, John F. Beard, Tony Shalhoub, Patrick Ferraro, Ali Merhi, Lance Reddick, Jack Gwaltney, Sherry Ham-Bernard, Curtis Sliwa, Sami Bouajila, Joseph Badalucco Jr., Jimmie Ray Weeks, Scott Charles, Judy De Angelis, Ray Godshall, Anjua Warfield-Maximo, Victor Slezak, Peter Schindler, Andrew Lasky, Bruce Willis, Sean Patrick Folster, Suzanne Solomon, Sean Hannity, John Henry Cox, Daniel Schorr, Ali Afshar, Marshall Dancing Elk Lucas, Denzel Washington, Gerard Cordero, John Rothman, Jim Shankman, E. Katherine Kerr, Ellen Bethea, Lianna Pai, Donna Hanover, Jacqueline Antaramian, Diana Naftal, Said Faraj, Wood Harris, Hany Kamal, Glenn Kessler, Barton Tinapp, Mark Langston, Gilbert Rosales, Ben Shenkman, Anthony Batarse, Robin Anne Phipps, Susie Essman, Sean Patrick Doherty, Luis Jimenez, Lisa Masters, Trish McGettrick, Matt Servitto, Chip Zien, Will Lyman, David Proval
In Theaters:Nov 06, 1998
Runtime:1 hour 56 minutes
Production:20th Century Fox, Lynda Obst Productions, The Bedford Falls Company
Budget:$70,000,000
Box Office:$40,981,289
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