Patriots Day (DVD)

Patriots Day is a 2016 American action thriller film about the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 and the subsequent terrorist manhunt. Directed by Peter Berg and written by Berg, Matt Cook, and Joshua Zetumer, the film is based on the book Boston Strong by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, J. K. Simmons, and Michelle Monaghan. It marks the third collaboration between Berg and Wahlberg, following Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon.

Principal photography began on March 29, 2016, in New York City, and also filmed in Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. The film premiered on November 17, 2016, at the AFI Fest. Distributed by CBS Films via Lionsgate, It was released in Boston, New York and Los Angeles on December 21, 2016, followed by a nationwide expansion on January 13, 2017. It was a box office failure, grossing just $52 million worldwide against a production budget of $45 million, but received positive reviews for Berg s direction and the performances of its cast, and was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2016.

The title refers to Patriots Day, the Massachusetts state holiday on which the Boston Marathon is held.

Plot

On April 14, 2013, Boston Police Department Sergeant Tommy Saunders captures a suspect and fails to convince Commissioner Davis to let him off from a punishment duty the next day, working the Boston Marathon. During the marathon, brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev detonate two bombs, causing widespread panic. A young couple Patrick Downes and Jessica Kensky are injured and taken to separate hospitals, where they are both required to have their legs amputated. Steve Woolfenden, a family man, is also injured and separated from his toddler son, Leo, who is taken by an officer to a safe location.

FBI Special Agent in Charge Richard DesLauriers is assigned to investigate the bombings in collaboration with Boston police commissioner Ed Davis, while Saunders searches for evidence and helps people that have been injured or separated from their loved ones in the chaos, including Patrick, Jessica, Steven, and Leo. FBI analysts review footage of the bombing and identify Dzhokhar and Tamerlan as suspects, but DesLauriers is reluctant to release their pictures to the public without further evidence. His hand is forced when the pictures are leaked to the press, while Watertown Police Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese s men begin conducting door-to-door searches for the pair.

Dzhokhar and Tamerlan kill MIT Police officer Sean Collier in a failed attempt to steal his pistol, and then carjack student Dun Meng, telling him that they committed the marathon bombing and planned to conduct another bombing in New York City. After Dzhokhar enters the Shell Gas station convenience store, Meng escapes from the vehicle and takes refuge at the Mobil gas station across the street, where he alerts the police on the whereabouts of the brothers after they drive away in the stolen car. Saunders arrives at the scene, learns of the brothers plan, and is given the stolen car s GPS tracking number, leading police to the pair, which leads to an armed confrontation. Several officers are injured in the ensuing shootout, where the brothers use both firearms and bombs. While Tamerlan is shooting, Pugliese fires at his ankle, wounding him and hindering his ability to gather more explosives. Tamerlan orders Dzhokhar to run to New York City to continue the rampage while he makes a last stand. As Tamerlan is subdued by the police, Dzhokhar runs over his brother in his flight, killing him, and escapes in the chaos.

Meanwhile, Tamerlan s wife Katherine Russell and Dzhokhar s college friends from UMass Dartmouth (Dias Kadyrbayev, Azamat Tazhayakov, and Robel Phillipos) are detained by the FBI Hostage Rescue Team and questioned by the High-Value Interrogation Group. Russell refuses to disclose any knowledge of her husband s illegal activities, paraphrasing the Quran in defiance, while Dzhokhar s roommates appear oblivious to his plans, despite having earlier found bomb components in his possessions.

Later in Watertown, a local man named David Henneberry realizes Dzhokhar is hiding in the covered boat in his back yard and calls Saunders and Superintendent William Evans. Dzhokhar is quickly surrounded and arrested after a brief standoff. Crowds cheer in the streets of surrounding neighborhoods while Saunders and his colleagues celebrate. The Boston police are invited to attend a Boston Red Sox game, where David Ortiz thanks them for their heroism and tells them to stay strong .

The epilogue reveals that Dzhokhar was sentenced to death by lethal injection and is awaiting his appeal in federal prison; his three college friends were arrested for obstructing the bombing investigation and authorities are continuing to seek information regarding Russell s possible involvement in the bombings.

Cast

• Mark Wahlberg as Boston Police Department Sergeant Tommy Saunders (based on Sergeant Detective Danny Keeler)
• Kevin Bacon as Richard DesLauriers, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Boston field office
• John Goodman as Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis
• J. K. Simmons as Watertown Police Sergeant Jeffrey Pugliese
• Michelle Monaghan as Carol Saunders, Tommy s wife and registered nurse
• Alex Wolff as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
• Themo Melikidze as Tamerlan Tsarnaev
• Michael Beach as Governor of Massachusetts Deval Patrick
• Vincent Curatola as Boston Mayor Thomas Menino
• James Colby as Boston Police Superintendent William Evans
• Jake Picking as MIT Officer Sean Collier, who was killed by the Tsarnaev brothers 79 hours after the bombings
• Melissa Benoist as Katherine Russell, Tamerlan Tsarnaev s widow
• Lana Condor as Li, Sean Collier s girlfriend and an MIT student
• Jimmy O. Yang as Dun Meng (Chinese: 孟盾), the driver the Tsarnaevs carjacked 80 hours after the bombings, who escaped at a gas station
• Christopher O Shea as Patrick Downes, who lost his leg in the bombings
• Rachel Brosnahan as Jessica Kensky, who also lost her leg in the bombings
• Khandi Alexander as Veronica the Interrogator
• David Ortiz as Himself
• Cliff Moylan as Watertown Sergeant John MacLellan
• Curtis J. Bellafiore as Watertown Officer Joey Reynolds
• Sean Avery as Watertown Officer on Franklin Street
• Elijah Guo as Dias Kadyrbayev, Dzhokhar s UMass Dartmouth Friend
• Token as Andrew Dwinells, Dzhokhar s UMass Dartmouth Roommate

This film also includes a cameo appearance of the real Dun Meng inside a pizza restaurant in Malden, Massachusetts, as well as the real David Henneberry, who was outside for a short time on a house porch during the search for the bomber. Ken Casey, singer and bassist for Dropkick Murphys, also has a cameo as a man on a porch during a scene of the firefight. And finally, the real Watertown Sgt. MacLellan makes an appearance for a fraction of a second among other Mass Law State officials as they cheer when the younger bomber is captured.

Production

Development

The film was one of three originally proposed about the bombings, the other two being Boston Strong (based on the book of the same title), set to be directed by Daniel Espinosa and starring Casey Affleck; and Stronger, about bombing victim Jeff Bauman, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. It was to depict Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis experiences during the manhunt. CBS Films purchased the rights to Boston Strong and merged it into the existing script. Stronger was produced separately and released on September 22, 2017.

On March 31, 2015, CBS Films announced it was producing the film as Patriots Day, depicting the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing and manhunt. The script, written by Matt Charman, focused on Boston Police Commissioner Edward F. Davis. The film is also based on the book Boston Strong and material from 60 Minutes. Its final version, not focused specifically on Davis, was written by Peter Berg, Matt Cook, and Joshua Zetumer; Mark Wahlberg plays police officer Sgt. Tommy Saunders and Michelle Monaghan plays his wife Carol. Wahlberg produced the film along with Scott Stuber, Dylan Clark, Stephen Levinson, Michael Radutzky, Hutch Parker and Dorothy Aufiero. By February 2016, the apostrophe in the title was dropped, making it Patriots Day. Also by then, J. K. Simmons had joined the cast as Watertown PD Sgt. Jeffrey Pugliese.

CBS Films and Lionsgate co-financed the film, with Lionsgate handling distribution. On March 8, 2016, Jimmy O. Yang joined the film s cast as Dun Meng, who was carjacked by the Tsarnaev brothers. On the same day, Vincent Curatola was cast as the mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, who was serving his fifth term when the bombings took place. On March 11, 2016, John Goodman signed on to play former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis. On March 25, 2016, James Colby joined the film to play William B. Evans, a Boston PD superintendent, and following him, Michelle Monaghan joined to play Carol Saunders, Tommy s wife. On March 31, Kevin Bacon joined the cast as FBI agent Rick Deslauriers, and on April 4, 2016, Alex Wolff and Themo Melikidze were cast in the film as Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, responsible for the bombing and later manhunt. Michael Beach later joined the film to play Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick.

On April 6, 2016, Rachel Brosnahan and Christopher O Shea joined the film to play newlyweds Jessica Kensky and Patrick Downes, who were at the finish line and seriously injured. The next day, Lana Condor was cast as Sean Collier s prospective girlfriend. On May 5, 2016, Melissa Benoist was cast as Katherine Russell, the widow of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, with Khandi Alexander set to play law enforcement interrogator Veronica, and Jake Picking as MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, who was killed 79 hours after the bombing. David Ortiz, who retired from the Boston Red Sox after the 2016 season, appears as himself.

Filming

Principal photography began on March 29, 2016 in New York City, New York, Boston, Quincy, Massachusetts, Los Angeles, California, New Orleans, Louisiana and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with production offices and a soundstage set up in one of the Centennial Park warehouses in Peabody, Massachusetts. All interior scenes at the FBI warehouse headquarters, as well as exterior command tent scenes, were shot there. Filming was arranged on Laurel Street in Watertown to recreate the shootout that took place there between police and the Tsarnaev brothers; but after objections by residents, town officials denied permission for the location. The City of Malden was approached to stand in for Laurel Street, and ended up with eight locations in the film. Producers then approached University of Massachusetts Dartmouth for permission to shoot scenes at the campus, but the request was denied by chancellor Gerry Kavanaugh. Simmons College stood in for exterior shots of UMass Dartmouth.

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where the Tsarnaev brothers killed MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, allowed the film production to shoot entirely peaceful scenes on the campus for three days in June. Filming also took place at Collier s actual house. The marathon finish line on Boylston Street was duplicated at the Naval Air Station South Weymouth, in addition to scenes filmed at the actual finish line on the day of the 2016 marathon. Dzhokhar s capture was filmed in Framingham, Massachusetts, on the bombing s third anniversary. Additional filming took place at Doyle s Cafe in Jamaica Plain on April 14, 2016, Watertown, Massachusetts, for shots of the police station and the sequence depicting Dun Meng escaping to the Mobil Gas station unlike the surveillance footage which was shot in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and at Lasell College in Newton, Massachusetts, on May 18, 2016.

Music

Academy Award-winning composers and Nine Inch Nails members Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were hired to write the musical score for the film.

Forever (2007 version) by Dropkick Murphys plays during the closing credits of the film; however, it is not included on the film s soundtrack.

Release

Patriots Day premiered on the closing night of the AFI Fest on November 17, 2016. It had a red carpet premiere at the Boch Centre Wang Theatre on December 14, 2016. The film was released in New York, Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Sofia, Bulgaria, and Paris, France, on December 21, 2016, followed by a wide release on January 13, 2017.

Reception

Box office

Patriots Day grossed $31.9 million in the United States and Canada and $20.2 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $52.2 million, against a production budget of $45 million.

In North America, the film had its expansion alongside the openings of Monster Trucks, The Bye Bye Man, and Sleepless, as well as the wide expansions of Silence and Live by Night, and was expected to gross $18–20 million from 3,120 theaters in its four-day MLK opening weekend. It made $560,000 from Thursday night previews, less than the $860,000 made by Berg and Wahlberg s Deepwater Horizon in September. The film ended up opening to $12.9 million (a four-day total of $14.2 million), finishing below expectations and 6th at the box office.

Critical response

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On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 81% based on 236 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The website s critical consensus reads, Patriots Day offers a stirring, solidly crafted tribute to the heroes of a real-life American tragedy without straying into exploitative action thriller territory. On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 69 out of 100, based on 42 critics, indicating generally favorable reviews . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of A+ on an A+ to F scale.

Kyle Smith of the New York Post called it: A great American movie about the greatness of ordinary Americans, Patriots Day combines an electrifying manhunt with the intimacy and feel for character writer-director Peter Berg showed in his brilliant TV series Friday Night Lights. Peter Debruge of Variety wrote: It’s genuinely exciting megaplex entertainment, informed by extensive research, featuring bona fide movie stars, and staged with equal degrees of professionalism and respect.

Reception from the Boston area

Though the film has mostly garnered approval among critics, many Boston-based publications criticized it for glamorizing the events it was based upon, and for the film s focus on Wahlberg s fictional character. In his review for The Boston Globe, Ty Burr wrote: It’s professionally made, slickly heartfelt, and is offered up as an act of civic healing. At best, it’s unnecessary. At worst, it’s vaguely insulting , and when further referencing local moviegoer s reaction to Wahlberg s heroic but fictional Tommy Saunders character, he simply stated, We don’t really want to see people who weren’t there. Especially when they’re everywhere . Writing for Esquire, Boston-based critic Luke O Neil also criticized Wahlberg s character, stating: For all his talk of honoring his people, Wahlberg seems content to rely on the most hackneyed of Masshole signifiers in their portrayal. Conversely, The Boston Herald gave the film a positive review.

In response, Peter Berg stated that some people automatically disliked the film as they may have been in close proximity to the Boston bombings or they believed the film was made too quickly after the events had occurred. Katharine Q. Seelye, who was not from Boston, wrote in The New York Times that the Saunders character was he biggest point of divergence , as Boston-area residents disliked the composite character s involvement in all the major events when he was not a single actual person, while people not from the Boston area may even appreciate as a narrative device and have not really questioned Saunders s role. She concluded that moviegoers outside New England pretty much accept the film on its own terms, as entertainment, and Bostonians do not.

Accolades

The National Board of Review honored Mark Wahlberg and Peter Berg with their Spotlight Award for this film (and also for Deepwater Horizon).

Condition

New

Amazon ASIN

B01LTI1WB2

UPC / EAN

031398258421

Year

2016

ReleaseDate

2017-01-13

RuntimeMins

133

RuntimeStr

2h 13min

Awards

Awards, 2 wins & 3 nominations

Directors

Peter Berg

Writers

Peter Berg, Matt Cook, Joshua Zetumer

Stars

Mark Wahlberg, Michelle Monaghan, J.K. Simmons

Produced by

Dorothy Aufiero, Dylan Clark, Lauren Downey, Louis G. Friedman, Eric Heffron, Eric Johnson, Daphne Lambrinou, Stephen Levinson, Joseph J. Micucci, Nicholas David Nesbitt, Hutch Parker, John Logan Pierson, Michael Radutzky, Bo Shen, Stephen Stapinski, Scott Stuber, Paul Tamasy, Patrick Wachsberger, Mark Wahlberg, Dan Wilson, Shixing Zhou

Music by

Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross

Cinematography by

Tobias A. Schliessler

Film Editing by

Gabriel Fleming, Colby Parker Jr.

Casting By

Sheila Jaffe, Angela Peri

Production Design by

Tom Duffield

Art Direction by

Steve Cooper

Set Decoration by

Ronald R. Reiss

Costume Design by

Virginia Johnson

Makeup Department

Carla Antonino, Howard Berger, Rob Fitz, Jamie Kelman, Navya La Shay, Tami Lane, Julie LeShane, Brenda McNally, Greg Nicotero, Joanna Raskin, Sherryn Smith, Johnny Villanueva

Production Management

Louis G. Friedman, Anthony Rossi III

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Alyssa Boffoli, Eric Heffron, Tim LaDue, Christopher T. Sadler, Kevin Scott, Marvin Williams, Sean Yopchick, Mike Smith

Art Department

Beth Anderson, Bobby Anderson, Graves Bates, Luke Bellamy, Nick Bellofatto, Richard Birch, Edward J. Borasch Jr., Brian Buckley, Rachel Burgio, Paul Chaisson, Jonathan Champoux, Kim Codner, Jason Coffey, Thomas Colleran, Donnchadh Gaf Condon, Christopher Conroy, Gregory J. Corcoran, William Costello, Stefan Couture, Debbie Cutler, Paul DeQuattro, Michael Dias, Tom Diorio, Bryan Felty, Jack Frankhouser, Brian Fry, Stephen Gavin, Paul W. Gorfine, Drew Guajardo, Paul Jaasko, Christopher Johnson, Kimmie Johnson, Pecan Johnson, Jason Joubert, Wayne Kimball, John Larson, Dave Manning, Sean Martin, Cameron Matheson, Jason Mayoh, Butch McCarthy, Helen McCarthy, Kerri McGill, Ryan McPeake, Mark Menard, Isaac Nadreau, Lisa Nagid, Abigail Neuhoff, David T. Parsons, Raymond Petrello, Jack Pitney, John Pungitore, Rick Radomski, Benjamin Regan, David Rickson, Ricky Riggs, Adam Roffman, Patrick Scalise, David Shauger, Patrick Shelby, Rae Signer, Lauren Ashly Suchecki, Theodore Suchecki, Ashley L. Sykes, Paul Wilson, Zachary Zablocki

Sound Department

Brian Bair, David Betancourt, Michael Broomberg, Scott Cannizzaro, Mark DeSimone, Mitch Dorf, Marc Fishman, Paul Flinchbaugh, Albert Gasser, Glynna Grimala, Tim Haber, Shane Hayes, Gary A. Hecker, Bobby Johanson, Jesse Johnstone, Michael Keller, Richard Kitting, Michael B. Koff, Keith McManus, Michael Miller, Dror Mohar, Piero Mura, Chris Navarro, Tyler Newhouse, Rick Owens, Mike Prestwood Smith, David Raines, Charleen Richards, Michael Rivera, John Ross, Randy Singer, Bruce Tanis, Santino Tartaglia, Chris Welcker, Dave Wilson, Linda Yeaney

Special Effects by

Judson Bell, Adam Bellao, Thomas Carroll, Troy Collins Jr., Jeremy Dominick, Elias Duhe Jr., Eddie Holecko, Lisa Kutcher, Matt Kutcher, Matthew James Kutcher, Taylor Kutcher, Zack Kutcher, Scott Petrino, Eric Roberts, John Ruggieri, Mikey Sheehan, Juli Van Brown

Visual Effects by

John Allardice, John Ashby, Hemkant Badgujar, Stacey Badour, Laura Barbera, Guy Barnes, Aaron Becker, Darshan Bharne, Jason Billington, Tatjana Bozinovski, Russell Bradley, Jeremy Brown, Dan Cayer, Suresh Chaudhary, Jake Cohen, Jay Colamaria, Hermes Crespo, Meagan Darcy, Deepak Deore, Amar Deshmukh, Sudheer Devadiga, Sean Devereaux, Chetan Dhande, Sagar Dhondge, Brady Doyle, Brian Drewes, Alex Falcon, Colin Feist, Matthew Friedlander, Michael Garrett, P. Whitney Gearin, Robby Geis, Suraj Ghose, Todd Gill, Leighana Ginther, Jamison Goei, Rishabh Gondane, Matthew Graham, Rich Hardy Jr., Simon Harrison, Simon Herden, Julianne Holzschuh, Beth Howe, Michael Huber, Pulkit Mahendra Huda, Jacek Irzykowski, Umesh Jagdale, Ankit Jain, Joshua H. Johnson, Sarah Jones, Simran Khalsa, Matthew Klein, Nitesh Kumar, Aaron Kupferman, Edison Lau, Kurt Lawson, Alex Lemke, Don Libby, Anu Liikkanen, Robert Liscombe, Lara Lom, Gary L. Lopez, Linda Luong, Harrison Marks, Amit Marshal, Finley McNeilage, Nathan Millsap, Abhishek More, Payankulath Nandakumar, Robert Nederhorst, Davy Nethercutt, Justin Odell, David Orman, Mike Pare, John Pierce, David Pietricola, Mario J. Pillet, Michael S. Pryor, Brian Quinlan, Kyle Raffile, Evan E. Richards, Mohit Salunke, Kevin Samar, Stephen Schmidt, Walter Schulz, Jimmy Shen, Kabir Shilpakar, Deepak Singh, Maciek Sokalski, Steven Spady, Jeremy Stapleton, Joe Statham, James Steller, Kondareddy Suresh, Ravindra Tamhankar, Rachael Tannous, Alexis Tarakjian, Pronoy Tarfdar, Umesh Tavde, Dinesh Kumar Thakur, Matt Todaro, Sergio Villegas, Vishakha Wairagade, Jennifer Wang, Anuradha Wasu, Vaughn White, Ben Wilson, Carmen Wong, Tomas Zaveckas, Stephen Allison, Chris Bone, Ryan Brassington, Debbie Cramb, Dustin Cumming, Edwin Erdmanis, Andrew Galka, Martin Garcia, Jess Hunt, Jacek Irzykowski, Josh Kelly, Michael D. Leone, Jeannette Maher-Manifold, Rachel Neville, Dylan Penhale, Bandhavit Puangpikul

Stunts

Casey Adams, Bobby Anderson, Alina Andrei, Matt Baker, Craig Baxley Jr., Matt Berberi, Kate Boyer, Kate Boyer, Chris Brewster, David Bronson, Chris Carnel, Alex Chansky, Willard Chesney, Keith Couture, Mike Dowling, Jared S. Eddo, Tom Elliott, Kirstie Ennis, Peter Epstein, Korey Fackler, Brent Fletcher, Josh Fried, Jeremy Gallant, Sean Graham, Adam Hart, Owen Holland, Chuck Hosack, Matthew James Kutcher, Joe Lambert, Matt Leonard, Christopher Leps, Bethany Levy, Monique McKellop, John Meier, Anthony Molinari, Chris Monberg, Noelle Therese Mulligan, Casey O Neill, Chris Palermo, Kelly Phelan, Ryan Sangster, Matt Shadden, Brett Smrz, Gregg Smrz, Joe Sobalo Jr., Erik Stabenau, Sean Patrick Stellato, Kionte Storey, Matthew Taylor, Eric Weinstein, Chris Whitcomb, Kage Yami, Glen Yrigoyen, Charlie Alejandro, Mel Alejandro, Thoma Anas, Alina Andrei, Matt Berberi, Jared S. Eddo, Korey Fackler, Sean Graham, Matthew James Kutcher, Robert Marsella, Matt Shadden, Mike Smith, Brett Smrz, Matthew Taylor

Camera and Electrical Department

Richard Coy Aune, Karen Ballard, Joseph Battista, Rick Beausoleil, Thomas Bellotti, Malachi Bibel, Eric Boyle, Peter Boynton, Rick Cardillo, Katherine Castro, Peter Clemence, Joseph Conti, Derek Contrado, Nathan Coscia, Thomas M. Dangcil, Tad Davis, Andy DePung, Joshua Dreyfus, Tim Dunbar, Michael Dynice, Dean Egan, Jeremy Emerman, Max Frew, John Garrett, Eric Goddard, Jesse Goldberg, Dylan Goss, Kurt Grossi, Craig Grossmueller, Quinn Grove, David Hallas, Mike Henry, Christian J. Hollyer, Jimmy E. Jensen, Jacques Jouffret, John R. Kaplan, Brendan Keefe, Mark Killian, Robert Knowles, Eric Komar, Bob E. Krattiger, Zachary K. Lazar, Wayne Marshall, John F. McCarthy, Clinton McMahon, Brandon J. Meadows, James R. Mitchell, Frank Montesanto, A. Kyo Moon, Robert Nadrowski, Nigel Nally, Phil Nason, Michael Nelson, Chris Nickerson, Brian O Connor, James O Hara, Gary M. Olitsky, Toshadeva Palani, Georgia Pantazopoulos, Dino Parks, Melanie Patten, Adam Peabody, Dylan Michael Peloquin, Brian A. Pitts, Harry Pray IV, Ryan Pray, Josh Pressey, David Puopolo, Shawn S. Ryder, Chris Ryerson, Maninder K. Saini, Mikey Sheehan, Steve Sikora, Karina Silva, Jeff Tanger, Darrell Temple, Aaron Tyburski, Dustin VonLossberg, Bradley Everett Wilson, Greg Wimer, Tom Killberg

Casting Department

Mike Clifford, Patty Connolly, Jerry Dwyer Jr., Pat Evans, Grace Gallant, Aaron Kahl, Anthony Kanaley, Cash Oshman, Sarah Otteman, Chris Petit, Jodi Purdy-Quinlan, Alana Raiser, Mark Sussman, Jennifer Yoo

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Penelope Cariolo, Elizabeth Clifford, Lorraine Crossman, Nicole C. Dube, Kelsey Ettman, David Fernandez, Margaret Galvin, Meg Gustafson, Parrish Kennington, April McCoy, Dana Pacheco, Amy Pickering, Lara Quinlan, Dianna Reardon, Hannah Rhein, Anna Seltzer, Gianna Soprano, Jill Thibault, Jennifer Lynn Tremblay, Cesha Ventre, Taryn Walsh, July Rose White

Editorial Department

Craig Charland, Melissa Lawson Cheung, Emily Chiu, Adrian DeLude, Donald Dey Jr., Leeza Diott, Bob Festa, Bridget Greaney, Annie Johnson, Matthew W. Johnson, Daphne Lambrinou, Ken Lebre, Chris Malenfant, Cara Manise, Jim Mauro, Jim May, Bradley Mead, Jill Piwowar, Adam Robinson, Alexis Ross, Stefan Sonnenfeld, Ian Sullivan, Kenneth Casey Swoyer, John Tripp, Jordan Schulz

Location Management

Mark Fitzgerald, Jason Fritz, Sam Gillis, Michael Judge, Jessica Logan, Jimmy Luc, Joe Piasecki, Joshua Pioccone, Joshua Youman

Music Department

Sally Boldt, Rich Redmond, Chris Richardson, Jason Ruder, Ben Schor, Dustin Mosley

Script and Continuity Department

Kelly Cronin, Jake Waller

Transportation Department

Billy Benner, Jon Campagna, James Divito, Jim Donahue, David Kenney, Billy O Brien III, Davin Olson, Theo Orfanos

Additional Crew

Tommy Armour IV, John Aufiero, Nick Austin, Molly Bettencourt, Jennifer Bydwell, Joey Cassaro, Bo Cleary, Billy Concha, Joseph Conti, Jason Cox, Tyler Cox, Josh Cronin, Kayla Cruz, Louis Delavenne, Jennifer Driscoll, Timothy DuBois, Matthew Eriksen, Erik Feig, Keith Fluker, Mark Garrigus, Bradley Grenon, Jake Head, Chelsea Jenney, Robert Johnston, Kathleen Keller, Delane Leahy, Raymond Lisi, Sal Lucio, James T. Marchant, Daniel Martin, J.S. Mateo, Devin McDonough, Katharine McManus, Adrian M. Mompoint, Abby Mulholland, Martin Mullen, Matthew Mullen, Wendy Overly, Kylie Paul, Helen Eggleston Peabody, Debbie Pearl, Michael Peavey, Herb Polack, Clint Porte, Timothy Scott Ralston, Chauency Reese, John L. Richmond, K.C. Roballo, Lucy Kim Robertson, Tyler Robinson, Abbey Roe, Dirk Rogers, Jon Romano, M. Ross-Michaels, Tony Scelsi, Mark Schotz, Gregory Seymore, Jamieson Shea, Matthew Silverman, Ben Skorstad, Chuck Slavin, Paul Anthony Speziale, David Steinwachs, Stefanie Swanson, Ty Taylor, Fred Tepper, Christian Torti, Jodi Tripi, Amit Tuli, Angelo Vacco, Chris Whitcomb, Alex L. Worman, Benjamin Zalusky, Kristen Annese, Alex Ginno, Mark Ross

Thanks

Krystle Marie Campbell, Sean A. Collier, Lü Lingzi, Martin William Richard, Dennis Simmonds, Dave Wedge

Genres

Action, Crime, Drama

Companies

CBS Films, Lionsgate, TIK Films

Countries

Hong Kong, USA

Languages

English, Chinese, Arabic

ContentRating

R

ImDbRating

7.3

ImDb Rating Votes

102822

Metacritic Rating

69

Short Description

Patriots Day is a 2016 American action thriller film about the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 and the subsequent terrorist manhunt. Directed by Peter Berg and written by Berg, Matt Cook, and Joshua Zetumer, the film is based on the book Boston Strong by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, J. K. Simmons, and Michelle Monaghan. It marks the third collaboration between Berg and Wahlberg, following Lone Survivor and Deepwater Horizon.

Principal photography began on March 29, 2016, in New York City, and also filmed in Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. The film premiered on November 17, 2016, at the AFI Fest. Distributed by CBS Films via Lionsgate, It was released in Boston, New York and Los Angeles on December 21, 2016, followed by a nationwide expansion on January 13, 2017. It was a box office failure, grossing just $52 million worldwide against a production budget of $45 million, but received positive reviews for Berg s direction and the performances of its cast, and was chosen by the National Board of Review as one of the top ten films of 2016.

The title refers to Patriots Day, the Massachusetts state holiday on which the Boston Marathon is held.

Box Office Budget

$45,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$161,306

Box Office Gross USA

$31,886,361

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$52,185,751

Keywords

Police,boston marathon,terrorist,boston marathon bombing,terrorism