• White House Down (2013)

    Capitol police officer John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) as a member of the Secret Service. Not wanting to disappoint his young daughter with the bad news, Cale takes her on a tour of the White House. While he and his daughter are there, a heavily armed paramilitary group attacks and seizes control. As the nation's government dissolves in chaos, only Cale can save his daughter, the president and the country.

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White House Down
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Release Date: June 28th, 2013

DVD Release Date: November 5th, 2013

PG-13 |2 hr 11 min

Plot Summary

Capitol police officer John Cale (Channing Tatum) has just been denied his dream job of protecting President James Sawyer (Jamie Foxx) as a member of the Secret Service. Not wanting to disappoint his young daughter with the bad news, Cale takes her on a tour of the White House. While he and his daughter are there, a heavily armed paramilitary group attacks and seizes control. As the nation's government dissolves in chaos, only Cale can save his daughter, the president and the country.

Cast: Channing Tatum, Jamie Foxx, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Clarke, Richard Jenkins, James Woods, Joey King, Nicolas Wright

Director: Roland Emmerich

Genres: Thriller , Action

Production Co: Centropolis Entertainment, Mythology Entertainment

Distributors: Sony Pictures

Keywords: 2010s , Police officer , Daughter , Underdog , Gripping , Rescue

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  • 70
    David RooneyThe Hollywood Reporter

    An action thriller that doesn’t know when to quit. For the most part, though, it remains preposterously entertaining. show more

  • 50
    David HiltbrandPhiladelphia Inquirer

    The main flaw of White House Down is that it overstays its welcome, thanks in large part to a silly climax that seems to unfold in three laborious acts. At least, Tatum keeps his shirt off. show more

  • 30
    Joe MorgensternWall Street Journal

    Mr. Emmerich, who has often conjured with cosmic themes, sometimes wittily, achieves something new this time around — a level of indifference to the genre and its fans that amounts to a cosmic shrug. What does it matter if the absurdity is slovenly, the whimsy leaden, the extravagance squalid?

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