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Diverted is a 2009
CBC
made-for-TV movie. It was directed by Alex Chapple
. The movie was written by Tony Marchant
.
. Suddenly, more than 200 aircraft flying over the Atlantic at the time had to find a new place to land. Thirty-nine of those flights made their way to Gander, Newfoundland, and on that day 6,600 people descended on a town of 9,000.
Mike Stiven (Shawn Ashmore
) is a young air traffic controller who falls in love with a woman he never should have met that was on one of the diverted planes (Anita Majumdar). Samuel Stearn (David Suchet
) is a New Yorker desperate to contact his missing son who was in the World Trade Center
. Marion Price (Joanne Whalley
) and Andrew Tyler (Colin Buchanan
) are passengers who find solace in each other in their depressing lives.
Diversion
Diversion may refer to:*diversion, a detour, especially of an airplane flight due to severe weather or mechanical failure, or of an ambulance from a fully occupied emergency room to one another nearby hospital*diversion, a distraction...
Diverted is a 2009
2009 in film
The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note...
CBC
CBC Television
CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...
made-for-TV movie. It was directed by Alex Chapple
Alex Chapple
-Filmography:-External links:...
. The movie was written by Tony Marchant
Tony Marchant
Tony Marchant is a British playwright and television dramatist. In 1982 he won the London Critics' Theatre Award for Most Promising Playwright for The Lucky Ones and Raspberry. In 1999 he won the British Academy Television Awards Dennis Potter Award for services to television...
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Synopsis
The movie is a fictional story inspired by the true events of what what happened to the people of Gander, Newfoundland and the passengers on the planes on September 11, 2001. The Federal Aviation Authority shut down the skies over the United StatesUnited States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Suddenly, more than 200 aircraft flying over the Atlantic at the time had to find a new place to land. Thirty-nine of those flights made their way to Gander, Newfoundland, and on that day 6,600 people descended on a town of 9,000.
Mike Stiven (Shawn Ashmore
Shawn Ashmore
Shawn Robert Ashmore is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for his role as Jake in the Animorphs television series and Iceman in the X-Men films. He is the twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore.-Early life:...
) is a young air traffic controller who falls in love with a woman he never should have met that was on one of the diverted planes (Anita Majumdar). Samuel Stearn (David Suchet
David Suchet
David Suchet, CBE, is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy...
) is a New Yorker desperate to contact his missing son who was in the World Trade Center
World Trade Center
The original World Trade Center was a complex with seven buildings featuring landmark twin towers in Lower Manhattan, New York City, United States. The complex opened on April 4, 1973, and was destroyed in 2001 during the September 11 attacks. The site is currently being rebuilt with five new...
. Marion Price (Joanne Whalley
Joanne Whalley
-Early life:Whalley was born in Salford but brought up in Stockport where she studied at the Braeside School of Speech and Drama, Marple.Whalley first appeared as a child in How We Used To Live and bit parts in soap operas, especially Coronation Street and Emmerdale...
) and Andrew Tyler (Colin Buchanan
Colin Buchanan (actor)
Colin Buchanan is a Scottish actor who is best known for playing Pascoe in Dalziel and Pascoe. He has also appeared in All Quiet on the Preston Front , The Bill, Between the Lines, Dangerfield, Heartbeat, Space Island One and Brief Encounters and A Touch of Frost...
) are passengers who find solace in each other in their depressing lives.
Cast
- Shawn AshmoreShawn AshmoreShawn Robert Ashmore is a Canadian film and television actor, perhaps best known for his role as Jake in the Animorphs television series and Iceman in the X-Men films. He is the twin brother of actor Aaron Ashmore.-Early life:...
- Mike Stiven - David SuchetDavid SuchetDavid Suchet, CBE, is an English actor, known for his work on British television. He is recognised for his RTS- and BPG award-winning performance as Augustus Melmotte in the 2001 British TV mini-drama The Way We Live Now, alongside Matthew Macfadyen and Paloma Baeza, and a 1991 British Academy...
- Samuel Stearn - Joanne WhalleyJoanne Whalley-Early life:Whalley was born in Salford but brought up in Stockport where she studied at the Braeside School of Speech and Drama, Marple.Whalley first appeared as a child in How We Used To Live and bit parts in soap operas, especially Coronation Street and Emmerdale...
- Marion Price - Colin BuchananColin Buchanan (actor)Colin Buchanan is a Scottish actor who is best known for playing Pascoe in Dalziel and Pascoe. He has also appeared in All Quiet on the Preston Front , The Bill, Between the Lines, Dangerfield, Heartbeat, Space Island One and Brief Encounters and A Touch of Frost...
- Andrew Tyler - Anita Majumdar - Alia Ramaswami
- Liisa Repo-Martell - Eileen Northbrook
- Anousha Alamian - Jamal Hassani
- Karen LeBlanc - Nadine
- Mark Caven - Captain Montgomery Crawford
- David Christo - First Officer Paul Denman
- Amy Rutherford - Stewardess
- Rick Boland - Major Reg Bowers
- Greg MaloneGreg Malone (actor)Greg Malone is a Canadian impressionist and actor.He is well known for the CODCO television series and his impersonations of Barbara Frum, Jean Chrétien, and Queen Elizabeth II....
- Joe Vernon - Philip Churchill - Nick
- Susan Kent - Dori