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National Treasure
Modern treasure hunters, led by archaeologist Ben Gates, search for a chest of riches rumored to have been stashed away by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin during the Revolutionary War. The chest's whereabouts may lie in secret clues embedded in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, and Gates is in a race to find the gold before his enemies do.
2004 · Directed by Jon Turteltaub · 131 min · Adventure · Action · Mystery · 18 frames
Tagline
In order to break the code, one man will have to break all the rules.
Crew
- Screenplay: Cormac Wibberley, Jim Kouf, Marianne Wibberley
- Cinematography: Caleb Deschanel
- Edited by: William Goldenberg
- Music: Trevor Rabin
- Production design: Norris Spencer
- Produced by: Jon Turteltaub, Jerry Bruckheimer
Cast
- Nicolas Cage as Ben Gates
- Diane Kruger as Abigail Chase
- Justin Bartha as Riley Poole
- Sean Bean as Ian Howe
- Jon Voight as Patrick Gates
- Harvey Keitel as Sadusky
- Christopher Plummer as John Adams Gates
- David Dayan Fisher as Shaw
- Stewart Finlay-McLennan as Powell
- Oleg Taktarov as Shippen
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: Latin, English, Spanish
- Studios: Walt Disney Pictures, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Saturn Films, Junction Entertainment
- Budget: $100,000,000
- Box office: $347,500,000
- Themes: new york city, treasure, philadelphia, pennsylvania, washington dc, usa, riddle, fbi, translation, expedition, secret society, family history
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