Hollywood treatments test US readiness to relive 9/11 attacks

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - Two Hollywood movies that asked US audiences to live through the September 11, 2001 attacks again on theater screens proved wounds from the tragedy were still tender across the country.

British director Paul Greengrass's "United 93" and Oliver Stone's "World Trade Center" weren't the first or only Hollywood treatments of the disaster five years ago -- a number of television movies and documentaries have been shown.

But the two were the first feature films to show across the nation in movie houses, testing the country's readiness to relive the deadly attacks even as their consequences are still filtering through Americans' daily lives.