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Plot summary
Jerry Shaw is a Stanford dropout who works at a copy store and struggles with money. His identical twin, Ethan, an Air Force officer, dies in a car crash. After the funeral, Jerry finds a fortune in his bank account and firearms and bomb-making materials in his apartment. A stranger's voice calls his phone and warns that the FBI is coming to arrest him. He does not believe her, and agents take him in for questioning. The caller then arranges his escape and sends him to Rachel Holloman, who is a single mother. Rachel is cooperating because the voice has threatened her son, Sam, who is on a train to Washington, D.C. with his school band. The caller controls traffic lights, phones and cranes to keep the pair ahead of the police.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Eagle Eye (2008)
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- A key chase scene in a high-tech package-processing hub on conveyor belts was shot without computer-generated imagery, and it was dangerous: Monaghan suffered a welt after a cable brushed her neck, Caruso hit his head on a protruding bolt, and a cameraman suffered a puncture wound requiring stitches.
- Brian Tyler recorded the score with an 88-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Sony Scoring Stage, and the session was interrupted by the Chino Hills earthquake on July 29, 2008.
- Official cast listings do not name the actress behind the mysterious voice featured in the film and its trailers, but Rosario Dawson confirmed at the Hollywood premiere that it belongs to Julianne Moore.
- Dan McDermott wrote the original script based on an idea by Steven Spielberg, who had been inspired by Isaac Asimov's short story "All the Troubles of the World"; Spielberg was set to direct before Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull made him drop out, and D. J. Caruso replaced him.
