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''Tiger Cruise'' is a [[Creator/DisneyChannel Disney Channel Original Movie]] from 2004, starring Creator/HaydenPanettiere and Creator/BillPullman (Hayden's brother Jansen and Creator/JennetteMcCurdy also appear); despite the title and the channel, it's not about animals but rather set aboard a cruise for military families. That's just what the US Navy actually calls these things, for reasons lost on any not scholars of military jargon. Maddie (Panettiere) is a teenage girl who wants her Navy father (Pullman) to give up the life of a commander and stay at home... but during the cruise, the September 11 attacks on UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity take place, impacting all on board and causing Maddie to rethink her views.

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!!This movie contains examples of:

* BrokenAesop: "Family Before Work", the aesop the film practically starts out with, is gradually superceded by the aesop that there is still hope for America after 9/11.
* ContentWarnings: Atypically for the Disney Channel, this film got them because of its subject matter. The ad opposite includes one.
* CoolBigSis: Grace, Tina's older sister, who's also a pilot; Maddie after a bit of CharacterDevelopment.
%% * CoolShip: The USS ''Constellation''.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Maddie after coming around to how important her father's duty to his country really is.
* {{Eagleland}}: [[PatrioticFervor Boy is it ever Type 1.]] The tone the film goes with as it portrays the US armed forces is both deeply reverent and noticeably uncritical - in-keeping with the American post-9/11 idealism.
%% * AFatherToHisMen: Maddie's dad.
* InsistentTerminology: Maddie is not a brat!
%% * LockedOutOfTheLoop: The Tiger Cruise passengers on the September 11 attacks, much to their frustration.
%% * MadeForTVMovie
* MilitaryBrat: All of the Tiger Cruise kids. Maddie despises the name.
%% * MoodWhiplash: Utilizing one of the biggest RealLife [[WhamEpisode Wham Moments]] in living memory.
* PatrioticFervor: The film's blissfully unblemished portrayal of the US Armed forces and the United States' political reaction to the 9/11 attacks received some flak amongst non-US viewers.
* StrawCharacter: Maddie is very much a straw pacifist to be 'set right' by what she witnesses on the cruise. By the end of the film, [[ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer she has all but performed a 180 on her original views]]. Of course, many still argue that [[StrawmanHasAPoint the straw girl had a point]].
%% * TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Maddie and Tina.
* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The actual ''Constellation'' really was between Pearl Harbor and San Diego on 9/11 on a normal tiger cruise at the end of its deployment.
* ViolenceReallyIsTheAnswer: Maddie goes from a [[TheWarOnStraw strawman pacifist]] to wholeheartedly supporting her dad's actions.
* WhenYouComingHomeDad: Maddie takes up to Tiger Cruise to confront her father with this very question. It's also a rare defiance of this trope, as the child admits that her dad should probably stick to doing his job.
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