Anne Nelson's The Guys, a play about a fire-captain unable to find the words to eulogize his men lost in the rubble of the World Trade Center and the writer who helps him search inward, makes an unspoken argument that perhaps we in the city were already aware of. That in many ways September 11th did not happen to the universe, or the civilized world, or even to the United States of America – it happened to New York. The film, directed subtly by Jim Simpson who also helmed the stage version, personifies New York and makes it the third player in a dramatic triangle filled out by Anthony Lapaglia as the (literally and figuratively) speechless captain and
Sigourney Weaver (who originated the role on stage) as a writer