Day on Fire
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{{Infobox film
| name = Day on Fire
| image = Day on Fire (2006 film) poster.jpg
| director = Jay Anania{{Cite news |date=2007-01-11 |title=Movies |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-burlington-free-press-movies/175336652/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=The Burlington Free Press |pages=54}}
| producer = William Fisch
Larry Rattner
Susan R. Rodgers
Lina Todd
Daniel Sollinger
| starring = Olympia Dukakis
Carmen Chaplin
Judy Kuhn
Alyssa Sutherland
Martin Donovan
| music =
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|2006}}
| runtime =
| country = United states
| language = English
| budget =
}}
Day on Fire is a 2006 American film{{Cite book |last=Cettl |first=Robert |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Terrorism_in_American_Cinema/nV4BvL8AqEwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Day+on+Fire+Jay+Anania&pg=PA89&printsec=frontcover |title=Terrorism in American Cinema: An Analytical Filmography, 1960-2008 |date=2009-10-21 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5442-6 |pages=89 |language=en}} which was produced by Lodestar Entertainment and filmed in New York City and Israel. It was written and directed by Jay Anania, stars Olympia Dukakis,{{Cite news |last=Stuart |first=Jan |date=2006-10-18 |title=A few of the best at the fest |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-a-few-of-the-best-at-the-fest/175336624/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |work=Newsday |pages=69}} Carmen Chaplin, Alyssa Sutherland{{Cite web |title=Day on Fire |url=https://www.berlinale.de/external/programme/archive/pdf/20073490.pdf |access-date=2025-06-26 |website=Berlinale}} and Martin Donovan{{Cite web |last=Nusair |first=David |title=2006 TIFF Update #10 |url=https://www.reelfilm.com/tiff0610.htm#dayfire |access-date=2025-06-26 |website=www.reelfilm.com}} and is produced by William Fisch and Larry Rattner. The film was scored by John Medeski with vocals by Judy Kuhn.{{Cite web |last=Koehler |first=Robert |date=2006-09-19 |title=Day on Fire |url=https://variety.com/2006/film/markets-festivals/day-on-fire-1200513238/ |access-date=2025-06-26 |website=Variety |language=en-US}}
Day on Fire was screened at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival{{Cite web |last=Kay |first=Jeremy |date=2006-05-14 |title=The Day On Fire adds heat to Bleiberg's Cannes slate |url=https://www.screendaily.com/the-day-on-fire-adds-heat-to-bleibergs-cannes-slate/4027183.article |access-date=2025-06-26 |website=ScreenDaily |language=en}} on May 22, 2006.
Plot
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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.
Reception
The film most received negative reviews. Robert Koehler of Variety wrote "...in the end, the extremely repetitive use of certain sound and images has truly diminishing returns.
References
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External links
- [http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/day_of_fire/ Day on Fire] on Rotten Tomatoes
- {{IMDb title|0814072|Day on Fire}}
Category:American thriller films
Category:2000s English-language films
Category:English-language thriller films
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