Product Details

• Actors: Scott Glenn, Tom Skerritt, Grant Show, Marisol Nichols, Kal Penn
• Directors: Daniel Sackheim
• Writers: Christopher Crowe
• Producers: Daniel Sackheim, Christopher Crowe, Clayton Townsend, Dori Keller, Kerry McCluggage
• Format: Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: August 23, 2005
• Run Time: 88 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0009I7NHQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #179,802 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Homeland Security" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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HOMELAND SECURITY - DVD Movie

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A Bumpy Ride Through an Attempt to Explain 911, August 25, 2005

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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Television pilots that fail to be picked up as series are showing up on the shelves as movies and the transition is all too apparent. HOMELAND SECURITY was supposed to be a series for TV, a form of explaining how the Department of Homeland Security came into being after the tragedy of 911. The 'film' version is mildly instructive, mildly entertaining, and in the end it is a hodge podge of ideas of how a long series might run crammed into 87 minutes.

What begins as a diatribe against the lack of cooperation and interaction among the CIA, FBI, and military intelligence (lower case intended!) suggesting that had their been centralization of information, perhaps 911 could have been prevented, ends up as a sprawling mélange of ill-connected pieces. The problems arise in attempting to explain the intricacies of the schisms in Afghanistan (a lot of pyrotechnique footage for this confusing section) along with the preludes of terrorist sub rosa influx into the country, footage from the 911 events, and personalization of some of the perpetrators and victims - all in compressed time broken by obvious black screen moments where TV commercials were placed.

The cast (Tom Skirett, Scott Glenn, Grant Show, Marisol Nichols, et al) tries hard to make the fuzzy script (written by Christopher Crowe) work, but the direction by Daniel Sackheim is jittery and ultimately seems to sell out to the political Right - probably at the demand of the non-cable TV network. Probably at the inception of the idea of tracing the evolution of Homeland Security as a force more intelligent in centralization of information was a good idea. It just gets too watered down and relies on the repetition of the line 'it was all there in front of us waiting for us to connect the dots'. Still, some food for thought. Grady Harp, August 05

5.0 out of 5 stars homeland security, October 15, 2010

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Great Movie , it's enlightening to some factual items and some journalistic liberties but all in all a good movie that gives the "behind the scenes story" , leading up to 09/11/2001 .

5.0 out of 5 stars Homeland Security, February 18, 2010

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Very good movie! The acting was well worth watching for but unfortuanately it was way to short. They should have made a series or at least a mini series out of it. Scott Glen and Tom Scarrett worked well together. It was so hard to put all these different agency workers together and achieve the goal they are looking for. Being in law enforcement myself here in NY for nearly 30 years, I can tell you, that cops...of any age or department or agency, have large egos, and for them to put their personal feelings aside and work towards a common goal to rid our country of this menace, is well worth watching.