Civic Duty

Where does legitimate concern end and paranoia begin? A man finds himself walking that fine line in this tense independent drama. Terry Allen (Peter Krause) is an accountant who lives a seemingly ordinary life until he loses his job. Unable to buy the new house he was hoping to get for his fiancée, ...more

With just a few exceptions, the post-9/11 movie has been a failure as a genre. Civic Duty could be the poster child for that failure. However, it's not for lack of a decent concept. The main scenario of Civic Duty confronted numerous ordinary Americans during the Bush administration, forcing them to modify their personal definitions of what constitutes "suspicious behavior," as well as grapple with their dormant tendencies toward racial profiling. Unfortunately, the only way to describe the ...more