Olympus Has Fallen
Olympus Has Fallen is a 2013 American action thriller film. Directed by Antoine Fuqua, it stars Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, and Morgan Freeman, with Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Cole Hauser, Ashley Judd, Melissa Leo, Dylan McDermott, Radha Mitchell, and Rick Yune in supporting roles. The film depicts a North Koreanled guerrilla assault on the White House, and focuses on disgraced Secret Service agent Mike Bannings Butler efforts to rescue the President Eckhart.
Former Special Forces soldier Mike Banning Gerard Butler is the lead U.S. Secret Service agent assigned to head the U.S. Presidential detail. Banning maintains a personal, friendly relationship with President Benjamin Asher Aaron Eckhart, First Lady Margaret Ashley Judd and their son Connor Finley Jacobsen. During a snowy Christmas evening drive from Camp David to a campaign fundraiser, the car transporting the First Family spins out of control on a bridge Banning pulls Asher from the vehicle, but Margaret falls to her death while inside the car.Eighteen months later, having been removed from the presidential detail, Banning works at Treasury headquarters. During a meeting between Asher and South Korean Prime Minister Lee TaeWoo Keong Sim, terrorists led by Kang Yeonsak Rick Yune, a North Korean terrorist driven to reunify Korea, mount an air and ground assault that results in the capture of the White House. The group is aided by treasonous members of the prime ministers own detail, including Dave Forbes Dylan McDermott, a former Secret Service agent. Asher and several top officials are held hostage in the White House bunker Prime Minister Lee is executed on live video. Before his own death, detail agent Roma Cole Hauser alerts the Director of the Secret Service Lynne Jacobs Angela Bassett that Olympus has fallen. ........
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