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Civic Duty

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The big subject is terrorism. The movie could be a good play because there are only four characters and three settings. The characters are a recently laid-off accountant with a poor work history, his babe-a-licious hollywood wife, a middle-eastern chemistry student, and an FBI agent. The settings are the accountant's apartment, his car, and the Arab student's apartment. The laid-off accountant spends all day watching terrorism stories on cable news. Eventually he begins to suspect his Arab neighbor of being a terrorist. His wife thinks he is crazy and leaves him. The FBI agent tells him the Arab student passes a background check and is not under investigation. The accountant takes matters into his own hands as he feel is his "Civic Duty." It would be a spoiler to say what he does or whether he was right in doing it. Given the small budget of the film, I would say it was simple and well done. If it had bigger budget, much more elaborate things could have done to make it a more complex and compelling story. As it is, I would say it worth renting or waiting for it to come on television, or maybe see it as a play with live actors.