Day on Fire Summary
Director: Jay Anania
Genres: Drama
Five people cross paths in New York City over the course of a day marked by violence in this independent drama from writer and director Jay_Anania. Judy (Judy_Kuhn) is a singer who is busy in a recording studio working on an album of British folk songs with jazz keyboardist John_Medeski. Shira (Alyssa_Sutherland) is a successful fashion model doing a photo shoot. Najia (Carmen_Chaplin) is a journalist from Palestine who is in the United States working on a piece on treating victims of wartime violence, and she's arranged an interview with a well-respected doctor, Dr. Mary Wade (Olympia_Dukakis). And Walter (Martin_Donovan) is a quiet man who enjoys spending time in the park observing others. When a Palestinian suicide bomber sets off an explosive charge on a busy Manhattan street corner, all five characters are forced to deal with the physical and emotional wreckage of its aftermath. Day on Fire was screened as part of the "Visions" series, devoted to challenging works from new filmmakers, at the 2006 Toronto Film Festival. Mark Deming, Rovi
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