<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Steve Cook <cookcafe@sc.rr.com><br><b>Date:</b> May 7, 2025 at 2:41:48\u202fAM MST<br><b>To:</b> discussionofmovies@googlegroups.com<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>Fridays Movie</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><style>@font-face { font-family: "Cambria Math"; }
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Feel free to share this message with others! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I hope you will join me for the below event for the this week! Below the Zoom information is a summary for this weeks movie. If you would like to receive a weekly reminder for each event, send me a message to let me know or if you have any movie suggestions send me those as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Friday, May 9, 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Siege Audio described movies starts at 8:00 PM Eastern <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">SC Tech Talk takes place every Saturday at 3:00 PM Eastern<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_Hlk160210672">Call in information: <o:p></o:p></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672">Phone number: 19292056099<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672">Meeting ID: 803 254 3777<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672">Password: 124578<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672"></span><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8032543777?pwd=QTVQd2RzN3l6QnNmZ0FmSnp6NG8vQT09"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672">https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8032543777?pwd=QTVQd2RzN3l6QnNmZ0FmSnp6NG8vQT09</span><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672"></span></a><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672">Meeting ID: 803 254 3777<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672">Passcode: 124578<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672">One tap mobile<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_Hlk160210672">+19292056099,,8032543777# </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><h2>Siege<span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">FBI Special Agent Anthony Hubbard and his Lebanese American partner Frank Haddad intervene at the hijacking of a bus fully loaded with passengers, which contains an explosive device. The bomb turns out to be a paint bomb and the terrorists escape. The FBI receives demands to release Sheikh Ahmed Bin Talal, a suspect in an earlier bombing. Hubbard eventually comes into conflict with Central Intelligence Agency operative Elise Kraft as he takes a terrorist suspect into custody and arrests Kraft. Later, another terrorist threat is made and a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus is suicide bombed, killing 25 people. The FBI captures a man named Samir Nazhde, who admits to signing the visa application of one of the suicide bombers in the course of signing many applications for student visas in his job as a lecturer. Fortunately, Kraft insists that Samir is not a terrorist and that his continued freedom is vital to the investigation. Hubbard and his team track down and eliminate the remaining elements of the terrorist cell, and initially believe the threat is over.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">However, the terrorist incidents escalate with the bombing of a crowded theater and hostage-situation at an elementary school, and culminate in the destruction of One Federal Plaza, the location of the FBI's New York City field office, with over 600 casualties. In spite of objections, the President of the United States declares martial law and the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division, under Major General William Devereaux, occupies and seals off Brooklyn in an effort to locate the remaining terrorist cells. Subsequently, all young men of Arab descent, including Haddad's son Frank Jr., are rounded up and detained in Downing Stadium. Haddad resigns in outrage. New Yorkers stage violent demonstrations against the Army and the profiling of the Arabs; the Army fights to maintain control. There are reports of Army killings.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hubbard and Kraft, now revealed to be an intelligence operative named Sharon Bridger, continue their investigation and capture a suspect, Tariq Husseini. Devereaux's men torture and kill Husseini in the course of the interrogation. Afterward, Bridger tells Hubbard that Husseini revealed nothing of value because of the principle of compartmentalized information. Sickened, she finally admits that she herself provided training and support to militants opposed to Saddam Hussein's regime, working with Samir to recruit and train the followers of the Sheikh. After the U.S. cut their funding and left the group exposed, she took pity on the few of the victims who had not yet been slaughtered by Hussein's forces, and arranged for them to escape to the United States, ultimately leading to the present situation as they turn their bomb making and covert skills on the country that now holds their leader. It was also revealed that the Sheikh was apprehended by Devereaux without the government's approval. She and Hubbard compel Samir to arrange a meeting with the final terrorist cell. Hubbard convinces Haddad to return to the FBI.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">A multi-ethnic peace march demonstrates against the occupation of Brooklyn. As the march is getting under way Hubbard and Haddad arrive at the meeting place, but Bridger and Samir have already left. Samir reveals to Bridger that he constitutes the final cell while in another sense he says, "there will never be a last cell." He straps a bomb to his body which he intends to detonate among the marchers. Hubbard and Haddad arrive in time to prevent him from leaving a bath house, but Samir shoots Bridger in the stomach as she struggles to stop him. Hubbard and Haddad kill Samir but despite their best efforts the pair can only watch as Bridger succumbs to her wound after managing to recite certain lines of the second half of the Lord's Prayer and concluding with "Inshallah" \u2013 the Arabic phrase "God Willing".<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hubbard, Haddad, and their team raid Devereaux's headquarters to make an arrest for the torture and murder of Husseini. Devereaux insists that under the War Powers Resolution the authority vested in himself by the President supersedes that of the court which issued the arrest warrant. He then commands his soldiers to aim their assault rifles at the agents, resulting in a Mexican standoff. Hubbard reminds Devereaux that the civil liberties and human rights which he took from Husseini are what all of his predecessors have fought and died for. Devereaux finally submits and is arrested. Martial law ends and the detainees, including Haddad's son, are given their freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Cast<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Denzel Washington as FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Anthony 'Hub' Hubbard<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Annette Bening as CIA Operative Sharon Bridger / Elise Kraft<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Bruce Willis as U.S. Army General William Devereaux<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Tony Shalhoub as FBI Special Agent Frank Haddad[1]<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Aasif Mandvi as Khalil Saleh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Amro Salama as Tariq Husseini<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Sami Bouajila as Samir Nazhde<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Ahmed Ben Larby as Sheik Akhmed Bin Talal<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Lianna Pai as FBI Agent Tina Osu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Mark Valley as FBI Agent Mike Johanssen<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">David Proval as FBI Agent Danny Sussman<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Lance Reddick as FBI Agent Floyd Rose<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Lisa Lynn Masters as Reporter</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div>
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