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Aug 10, 2021 · Michael Keaton stars alongside Stanley Tucci and Amy Ryan in the gripping first-look trailer for Netflix's powerful new 9/11 movie Worth.
Following the horrific 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Congress appoints attorney and renowned mediator Kenneth Feinberg (Michael Keaton) to lead the September 11th Victim ...
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- Sara Colangelo
- PG-13
- Michael Keaton
In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, a lawyer faces an emotional reckoning as he attempts to put a dollar value on the lives lost. Based on real events. Watch trailers & learn more.
- Sara Colangelo
- 118 min
The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11. Worth is a 2021 American biographical film written and co-produced by Max Borenstein and directed by Sara Colangelo. Based on the memoir by lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, the film depicts Feinberg's handling of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund.
- Kenneth Feinberg
- Charles Wolf
- Camille Biros
- Composite Characters
Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer who was Special Master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, is played by Michael Keaton in the movie, and his portrait is typical for this kind of movie: There are a lot of correct details, but the overall shape of events has been massaged a little to fit into a film narrative. Feinberg chronicled his experie...
Charles Wolf, the husband of a Sept. 11 victim who was an early critic of Feinberg’s administration of the fund, is played by Stanley Tucci in the movie. He’s a much bigger part of Feinberg’s story in the movie than he seems to have been in real life, and some adjustments have been made to make him a better foil for Feinberg. For starters, he’s mov...
Camille Biros is played by Amy Ryan on-screen, and if her official role at Feinberg’s firm is not entirely clear in Worth, that’s because the Sept. 11 Victims Compensation Fund seems to have been a turning point for her career. Biros, who is not a lawyer, became Feinberg’s administrative assistant in 1979 when he was working for Ted Kennedy. By 200...
Any movie based on a true story has composite characters, but Worth has more than most, because both Feinberg and the filmmakers are sensitive to the privacy of the families of the Sept. 11 victims. There are two important composite characters who are not victims, though: sleazy corporate lawyer Lee Quinn (Tate Donovan) and up and coming Feinberg a...
- Matthew Dessem
Aug 9, 2021 · BY Kaelen Bell Published Aug 9, 2021. Netflix has just released the first trailer for Worth, its upcoming 9/11 drama starring Michael Keaton. Based on attorney Kenneth Feinberg's memoir...
Aug 12, 2021 · Michael Keaton, Stanley Tucci, and Amy Ryan star in Netflix and the Obamas backed Worth, an incredible true-life drama about the 9/11 victim compensation fund.
