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Synopsis: After the death of the President, his successor is on the campaign trail to be re-elected. On a stop in Colorado, he is suddenly snowed in and he and his entourage are forced to take shelter in a small diner. Of course, the group completely take over from the diner's owner and his French-Canadian waitress. Also in the diner is a local redneck and a married couple. Suddenly, the movie moves into a suspense film as the President learns that Iraq has invaded Kuwait and slaughtered hundreds of American soldiers. Setting up temporary communications, the President announces that he will launch a nuclear attack on Iraq immediately if the country does not withdraw. Iraq reacts that they have 23 nuclear missiles trained on the US that they are ready to launch. Tensions mount with the involved civilians offering a different viewpoint to the President from the normal opinions of his advisers.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Rod Lurie
Production: Paramount Home Video
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
50
Rotten Tomatoes:
46%
R
Year:
1999
104 min
189 Views


It's a problem? Because it's a game.

So, why are we playing?

He put f***in'... could you try

not to complain for once?

You know it is the best food for Miles.

It's the only food for Miles.

It's only anything for Miles. Let

me ask you this question, harv.

When's the last time you had

an inspection here?

You're supposed to do that, make

sure it's clean. That's it.

Get the hell out. Come on, Harvey.

Take it easy.

No, no. When a man

insults my joint,

he insults the memory of my father.

Your father ever see you

in that chef boyardee hat?

Why you keep messin' with me?

It's a sacred trust. You put

something in somebody's food...

Where did they come from?

Hi.

I sure thought I'd seen the end of

customers for the night. Excuse me.

Yeah, standard perimeter

deployment. Exodus is in.

I need reports into channel 34 on the stat.

I need delta team in six minutes.

Hi, I'm special agent Dexter.

Do-do you guys want a booth?

No, thank you, ma'am.

This is special agent Williams.

Hello. Hi. You the proprietor?

I'm the proprietor, sir.

Do we have a problem here?

I'm no stranger to law enforcement...

Don't make a production out of it, honey.

Good evening, folks. Hi,

good evening. Hello.

I'm special agent Dexter.

This is special agent Williams.

With your permission, we need to see some

identification, check your person for weapons.

Sure. What's this all about?

Is there a problem, sir? Well,

there most certainly is.

Lizzie, sit down.

Lizzie.

Come on, Taylor. They're

just trying to do their job.

Mr. Taylor? All right. My

first name's Taylor. Right.

Yeah, check her out.

- Taylor Fletcher woods.

- And this is Lizzie Clark woods.

Ms. woods.

Hey, how did you do that?

It's not cool they know who we are.

What's the juice here? How do we

know you are who you say you are?

Mr. woods.

Taylor...

I'd sure appreciate some cooperation here.

Emerson's a different breed than we thought.

He seems disposed to continuing

the deceased president's...

Hard-line approach

on north Korea,

committing to keeping the vast

majority of U.S. troops there...

F***ed up my camera. Thank you, Mr.

Emerson. Send Noah to Colorado.

At least you got loaded up

on some good stuff today.

We got you some good stuff! Good footage.

Any minute, there's gonna be a crazy

mob breaking in through here.

That's not a problem, Mr. Howard.

You got that area cleared?

It's all secure, sir.

Thank you.

Good footage.

Real stuff we want.

Staged footage.

Make it real for once.

There's no egress, but post in the kitchen.

Trump, victorious in Connecticut.

We got bravo team on the roof...

president Emerson's campaign...

Seems to riding a crest of sentiment.

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Rod Lurie

Rod Lurie (born May 15, 1962) is an Israeli-American director, screenwriter and former film critic. more…

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