While Jack warns the White House of the impending climate shift, his 17 year-old son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) finds himself trapped in New York City where he and some friends have been competing in a high school academic competition. He must now cope with the severe flooding and plummeting temperatures in Manhattan. Having taken refuge…
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
Tagline: Where will you be? What if we are on the brink of a new Ice Age? This is the question that haunts climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid). Hall’s research indicates that global warming could trigger an abrupt and catastrophic shift in the planet’s climate. The ice cores that he’s drilled in Antarctica show that…
Garden State Production Notes (2004)
Garden State is a comedy, but as Braff’s co-star Natalie Portman observes, “It also has a heart. A lot of funny stuff these days is so cynical, but there’s nothing cynical about this movie. It’s untraditional and unlike anything I’d ever seen before. That’s what made it exciting.” In a larger sense, the film is…
Garden State (2004)
A moderately successful TV actor living in Los Angeles, “Large” hasn’t been home to the “Garden State” in nine years. But even with 3,000 miles between them, he’s been unable to escape his domineering father Gideon (Sir Ian Holm) and the silencing effect he’s had on his son from afar. Stunned to find himself in…