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Vantage Point

8 Strangers. 8 Points of View. 1 Truth.

If I see this scene again I'm going to scream!

The president of the USA is assassinated in broad daylight, live on television, at an anti-terrorism conference in Spain. This film takes that event apart, as we follow the action through the eyes of eight different people, who each have a different perspective on what happened. As each version unfolds, the viewers gets fresh clues as to the truth behind the event.

88 minutes, No persons under 13 (Violence)
Action, Drama, Thriller.

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Credits
Cast	Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Bruce McGill, Edgar Ramirez, Said Tagmaoui, Ayelet Zurer, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt
Director	Pete Travis
Screenplay	Barry L. Levy
Music	Atli Övarsson
Cinematography	Amir Mokri
Editing	Stuart Baird, Sigvaldi J. Kárason, Valdis Óskarsdóttir
Sound formats	Dolby Digital, Sony Dynamic Digital Sound, DTS
Soundtrack	Available
Made in	2008
Produced by	Original Film, Relativity Media
SA Distributor	Ster-Kinekor

FPB Report (SA)
Genre	Suspense, thriller, action
Language	Mild, infrequent
Nudity	None
Sex	None
Violence	Strong action and psychological violence, sustained but not bloody, gory or graphic.
Prejudice	None
Blasphemy
Drug abuse
Comments	None
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ScreenIt Report (USA)
Sex / Nudity	Violence	Blood / Gore / Gross	Guns / Weapons	Profanity

Alcohol / Drugs	Smoking	Disrespectful / Bad Attitude	Imitative Behaviour	Frightening / Tense Scenes

Jump Scenes	Tense Family Scenes	Music (Scary/Tense)	Music (Inappropriate)	Topics to talk about

Ratings

Scale (Max)	20
South African Media
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Cape TimesKenneth Turan	5
iAfrica.comNils van der Linden	10
The CitizenDavid Jenkin	12
24.comNatalie Sineke	5
International Media
BBC (UK)Paul Arendt	10
ReelViews (USA)James Berardinelli	13
Rolling Stone (US)Peter Travers	8
ScreenIt (USA)	11
Metacritic.com32 critics	8
RottenTomatoes.com135 critics	10
RottenTomatoes.comTomatometer $Premise is undermined by fractured storytelling and wooden performances.$	7
Internet (IMDB)12010 Netizens	13

Average .. 47%	9

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