Tagline: What happens when the numbers run out?
Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in Knowing, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future and sets out to prevent them from coming true.
Rose Byrne (Troy, “Damages”), Chandler Canterbury (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Repossession Mambo) and Lara Robinson (“Saved”) also star in director Alex Proyas. (I, Robot) riveting feature about a father.s desperate battle to save his child—and the world.
In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures of what they think the future will look like. Their drawings will be sealed into a time capsule and stored for 50 years. But one mysterious girl fills her paper with rows of apparently random numbers, which she says are being whispered to her by unseen people.
A half-century later, a new generation of students examines the capsule.s contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury), but it.s Caleb’s father, astrophysics professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), who makes a startling discovery: the encoded message predicts the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years with pinpoint accuracy. As he further unravels the document’s secrets, John discovers that it foretells three additional catastrophes—the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale.
John.s efforts to alert the authorities about the impending catastrophes fall on deaf ears and his fears intensify with the realization that Caleb is somehow connected to the mystery. Enlisting the help of Diana Whelan (Rose Byrne) and Abby (Lara Robinson), the daughter and granddaughter of the prophetic message.s author, he embarks on a ace against time to prevent the ultimate disaster.
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Knowing
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Lara Robinson, Nadia Townsend, Adrienne Pickering
Directed by: Alex Proyas
Screenplay by: Alex Proyas, Stuart Hazeldine, Juliet Snowden
Release Date: March 20, 2009
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language.
Studio: Summit Entertainment
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $79,957,634 (45.4%)
Foreign: $96,217,509 (54.6%)
Total: $176,175,143 (Worldwide)