White House Down

White House Down is a 2013 political action thriller films about John Cale (Channing Tatum), a Capitol police officer who gets caught in a terrorist takeover of the White House while on a tour with his daughter. He must fight off heavily armed mercenaries to rescue his child and protect the President of the United States (Jamie Foxx) from a global crisis.

Directed by Roland Emmerich. Written by James Vanderbilt.

Dialogue

Finnerty: Hi, I'm Carol Finnerty.

Cale: Hi. John.

[recognizing each other]

Cale: Carol?

Finnerty: Cale.

Cale: Oh, my God. Carol Wilkes.

Finnerty: Actually, I'm Carol Finnerty now.

Cale: You're Deputy Special Agent Finnerty?

Finnerty: Oh, you're Jenna's favor.

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President Sawyer: [flying over the Lincoln Memorial] Do you know that Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. president who was in favour of women having the vote? He wrote a paper on suffrage while he was still in the Illinois legislature.

Finnerty: Yes, I did know that... because you tell me every time we do this.

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Cale: [escaping from Stenz in Cadillac One] What the hell are you getting in the back for?

President Sawyer: [getting in the front] Sorry, force of habit.

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Raphelson: John.

Cale: It's disarmed.

Raphelson: Thank God you're all right. Where's the president?

Cale: He didn't make it, sir.

Rapaelson: I need to address the nation. General, get on with the joint chiefs. We need to make plans to move our troops back into the Middle East to stabilize the region.

Finnerty: You wanna move troops in?

Raphelson: When they find out that we almost launched a nuclear attack down there, there's gonna be chaos. And we have to contain it. We have to.

Cale: Can I ask you a question?

Raphelson: Of course, yeah.

Cale: When did you and Walker cook this whole thing up?

Raphelson: Excuse me?

Cale: So how'd it go? You gave Walker the launch codes, and he made you president?

Raphelson: You can prove this?

Cale: Well, Walker had to get the launch codes from somewhere, and you were the only person with those codes. And I found this pager in Walker's pocket. I only know one other person who uses one of these.

Raphelson: That doesn't prove anything. Two old guys use old technology, so what?

Cale: Why don't you call the return number on that, Carol? Guess it would've been better if all the evidence had been destroyed in the air strike you ordered. You're a goddamn traitor, sir.

Raphelson: You dim little shit! I hired you out of pity, and this is how you repay me? But you know, tomorrow, when people find out that your precious president helped a maniac open the nuclear football, who do you think they're gonna believe? You or me? You, you would be a nobody. But me, I'm the president of the United States.

President Sawyer: No, you're not. Eli, Eli. Quite that politician, huh? You did all of this just to keep your buddies in the defense industry happy. How far did you fall into their pockets?

Raphelson: This is ridiculous.

President Sawyer: Take him into custody, General.

Caulfield: Yes, sir, Mr. President.

Raphelson: No, you can't. I'm still president.

President Sawyer: Well, then, just consider this a coup d'etat. Get this trash off my lawn!

Raphelson: You're not fit for office, you son of a bitch! You're selling this country out to the Arabs! This isn't over! I've got friends!

President Sawyer: And I will make sure that all of your friends meet you in prison.

Cast

• Channing Tatum as John Cale
• Jamie Foxx as James Sawyer
• Maggie Gyllenhaal as Carol Wilkes-Finnerty
• Jason Clarke as Emil Stenz
• Richard Jenkins as Eli Raphelson
• Joey King as Emily Cale
• James Woods as Martin Walker
• Nicolas Wright as Donnie Donaldson
• Jimmi Simpson as Skip Tyler
• Michael Murphy as Vice President Alvin Hammond
• Rachelle Lefevre as Melanie Schopp-Cale
• Lance Reddick as General Caulfield