''Day on Fire'' is a 2006 American film which was produced by Lodestar Entertainment and filmed in
New York City
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and
Israel
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. It was written and directed by Jay Anania, stars
Olympia Dukakis
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,
,
Alyssa Sutherland
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Early life
Sutherland was born in Brisbane. Sutherland at ...
and
Martin Donovan
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and is produced by William Fisch and Larry Rattner. The film was scored by John Medeski with vocals by Judy Kuhn.
''Day on Fire'' was screened at the 2006
Cannes Film Festival
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on May 22, 2006.
Plot
''Day on Fire'' tells the story of a singer, a model, an Arab woman journalist, and a physician as they criss-cross New York City over a 12-hour period. Their intersecting lives unfold against the backdrop of a ghastly suicide bombing in Israel, and the strange New York City wanderings of a malevolent Handsome Man, whose predatory intents lend an air of inevitable, horrific violence. Beautifully and hauntingly musical, this thriller also has a political and personal intrigue that mounts inexorably as the sun begins to set on this fateful day. By the time night has fallen in the city, the crossing of these individual fates is sealed. Each of these four women has found their destiny amidst the brutality that the film reveals.
External links
Day on Fireon
Rotten Tomatoes
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2006 Toronto International Film FestivalBleiberg Entertainment*
2006 films
American thriller drama films
2006 thriller drama films
2006 drama films
2000s English-language films
2000s American films
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