Basement

[Available currently on Amazon Prime Video and various VOD platforms.] After a compassionate, kindhearted widower (Brian Krause) and his 11-year-old daughter (Jordana Rose) retreat to a bomb shelter they set up in their basement in Brooklyn when sirens begin blaring in Robert Rosenbaum's compelling, suspenseful, well-written, intense, superbly acted, moving, 87-minute film based on his stage play, tensions and anger escalate and conflicts ensue as a gun-wielding racist neighbor (Hunter Emery) and his pregnant schoolteacher wife (Shannon Marie Sullivan), a courageous Black man (R.J. Brown), a beautiful Latina woman (Christie Prades), and a Middle Eastern deli owner and former medic (Rizwan Manji), his injured sister (Salma Shaw), and 10-year-old son (Aariq Manji) join them in the shelter and then the eclectic group discover they are trapped when bombs start exploding above them.
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