TCA: USA Network to Air 9/11-Themed Film

'The Space Between' to commemorate 10th anniversary of World Trade Center attacks

By R. Thomas Umstead -- Multichannel News -- Broadcasting & Cable, 1/13/2011 2:34:29 PM

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USA Network will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the World Trade Center attacks with the Sept. 11 airing of the original film The Space Between.

The film, which was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, stars Oscar and Golden Globe nominated actress Melissa Leo (The Fighter, Frozen River) as flight attendant whose plane is grounded in Texas the morning of 9/11.

After realizing that a Pakistani-American boy who is also on the plane lives in New York and whose father works in the World Trade Center, she's forced to drive the boy back home to his uncertain future in New York.

The film is part of Part of USA's "Characters Unite" campaign to combat discrimination, according to network officials.

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