Homeland Security (film)

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Homeland Security
Homeland Security title screen
Genre	Drama War
Running time	98 minutes (approx.)
Director(s)	Daniel Sackheim
Producer(s)	Ron Binkowski Clayton Townsend
Writer(s)	Christopher Crowe
Starring	Scott Glenn Tom Skerritt Grant Snow Marisol Nichols Kal Penn Ross Gibby Leland Orser
Music by	Scott Gilman
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
Original channel	NBC
Release date(s)	April 11, 2004
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Homeland Security was a made for TV movie, which was intended as a pilot for a series which never materialized.

1 Plot
2 Cast & Crew
- 2.1 Main Cast
- 2.2 Production Crew
3 DVD Releases
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The movie begins prior to the events of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, we meet a number of characters who are retiring, however in the wake of the attacks they are called upon to serve their country once again.

Admiral McKee (Tom Skerritt) is retired, when following the events of 9/11 he receives a call from the Whitehouse informing him that his commander in chief requires him to serve his country once again. Shortly after this he is sworn into office as a senior member of the Office of Homeland Security under Tom Ridge. Once in office Admiral McKee faces the challenge of organising this new office so as to prevent further terrorist attacks against the United States. With this in mind Admiral McKee's wife, Elise Mckee, recommends he speaks to his friend, NSA Agent Sol Binder.

Following a meeting with Sol Binder, Mckee recruits him into the Office of Homeland Security. After which Binder comes up with a plan for the new agency, all law enforcement agencies within the United States will have to put their rivalry aside and funnel all intelligence into the Office of Homeland Security. We first meet Agent Binder at the beginning of the film prior to the events of 9/11, where he is meeting with a group of NSA Agents with intelligence on a planned terrorist attack that is to take place in the United States where the number Nine and Eleven keep popping up, it is not until the day of the attacks that Binder was able to piece it together. It is Binder's belief that had there been a co-operative organisation such as the Office of Homeland Security the attacks could have been averted

While the main concern of the film is the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security, which following Congress' approval would become the Department of Homeland Security, there are a number of subplots involved in the film. Such sub plots are, The invasion of Afghanistan, the pursuit of Osama Bin Laden and the destruction of Al'Qaeda training camps in the middle east, as well as in the beginning of the film Admiral Mckees' Daughter, Melissa, is due to leave New Jersey for San Francisco on September 11, 2001, she was due to board United Airlines Flight 93, following hearing an announcement on the news that United Airlines Flight 93 was hijacked and has gone down over Pennsylvania, the Admiral and his wife were distraught, shortly there after she contacted her parents and was upset and told them she was late and fortunately had missed her flight.