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Olympus Has Fallen
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6.4When the White House (Secret Service Code: "Olympus") is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As the national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning's inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger disaster.
Cast
- Gerard Butler as Mike Banning
- Aaron Eckhart as President Benjamin Asher
- Finley Jacobsen as Connor
- Dylan McDermott as Forbes
- Rick Yune as Kang
- Morgan Freeman as Alan Trumbull
Themes
- usa president
- washington dc, usa
- the white house
- secret service
- terrorist attack
- anxious
- north korea
- suspenseful
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Ratings
IMDb
6.5/10
304,539 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
49%
Metacritic
41/100
- Year
- 2013
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Genres
- Action, Thriller
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 1 win & 5 nominations total
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Antoine Fuqua
- Written by
- Creighton Rothenberger Katrin Benedikt
- Produced by
- Antoine Fuqua Gerard Butler Alan Siegel Ed Cathell III Danny Lerner Mark Gill
- Starring
- Gerard Butler Aaron Eckhart Morgan Freeman Angela Bassett Robert Forster Cole Hauser Finley Jacobsen Ashley Judd Melissa Leo Dylan McDermott Radha Mitchell Rick Yune
- Cinematography
- Conrad W. Hall
- Edited by
- John Refoua
- Music by
- Trevor Morris
- Production companies
- Millennium Films G-BASE
- Distributed by
- FilmDistrict
- Release dates
- March 18, 2013 ( 2013-03-18 ) ( Hollywood ) March 22, 2013 ( 2013-03-22 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 119 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $70 million
- Box office
- $170.3 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Olympus Has Fallen is a 2013 American political action thriller film directed and co-produced by Antoine Fuqua from a screenplay written by Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt, and is the first installment in the Has Fallen film series. The film stars Gerard Butler (who also co-produced), Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman with Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Cole Hauser, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell, and Rick Yune in supporting roles.
The plot depicts a North Korean–led guerrilla assault on the White House, and focuses on disgraced Secret Service agent Mike Banning's efforts to rescue U.S. President Benjamin Asher.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Olympus Has Fallen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.