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Titolo originale: Knowing
Regia: Alex Proyas |
Anno: 2009
Origine: United Kingdom | United States of America | Australia |
Generi: Azione Mistero Fantascienza Thriller
Tag: cataclysm | melancholy | code | alien | time capsule | end of the world | astrophysicist | grieving widower | lexington massachusetts | westford massachusetts | prediction | researcher | numbers | news | reflective | suspenseful | awestruck | ominous | tragic | pattern recognition |
Cast: Nicolas Cage | Rose Byrne | Chandler Canterbury | Ben Mendelsohn | Nadia Townsend | Terry Camilleri | Lara Robinson | Adrienne Pickering | Danielle Carter | Alethea McGrath | David Lennie | D.G. Maloney | Alan Hopgood | Joshua Long | Tamara Donnellan | Travis Waite | Liam Hemsworth | Harli Ames | Alyssa McClelland | Gareth Yuen | Lesley Anne Mitchell | Raymond Thomas | Angie Diaz | Kate Mylius | Sarah Lawrence |

Un professore rinviene nel cortile della scuola elementare del figlio una capsula temporale sepolta nel 1963, contenenti sconvolgenti predizioni su alcuni disastri naturali, tra cui l'imminente fine del mondo. L'uomo si convince che la sua famiglia giochi un ruolo determinante nei catastrofici eventi che si susseguono.

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Empire State Building e la cultura di massa D
Lara Robinson portrays both Lucinda (in 1959) and her granddaughter Abby (in 2009). D
The school in the movie is William Dawes Elementary. William Dawes was one of the riders who, like P [...] D
John Koestler never once sleeps in his own bed throughout the movie D
(at around 39 mins) The entire airplane crash, starting from when we see the plane till the end of t [...] D
Connections between Knowing and the movie 2012: Both start in the year 2009, both deal with "Apocaly [...] D
In the beginning of the movie, at the time capsule ceremony in 1959, the piece of music being played [...] D
Nicolas Cage and Ben Mendelsohn later appear in Trespass (2011). D
When John Koestler is teaching his class at MIT at the beginning of the movie, the blackboard shows [...] D
Richard Kelly was originally set to write and direct the project. D
(at around 1h 21 mins) After realizing that the cataclysm will come in the form of a coronal mass ej [...] D
The writing credits in early promotional material read: "Story by Ryne Douglas Pearson. Adaptation b [...] D
(at around 49 mins) John reads a newspaper story about Lucinda Embry's 1988 death, written by "Carl [...] D
At the end of the film, Caleb and Abby are seen running through a golden field toward a glowing tree [...] D
The predicament of being able to see future disaster and fearing no one will believe you is called " [...] D
This is the second film featuring Rose Byrne to revolve around the possible end of the world as the [...] D
An anagram of the young girl who creates the list of numbers, Lucinda Embry, is Badly Numeric D
In the Bible, "Lucinda" means "Bringer of light." D
A somewhat similar derailment on the New York City Subway's #4 line depicted in the movie happened i [...] D
The date for the end of everything, according to the film, is 10/19/09. D
It took Alex Proyas three months to shoot the film, about half the time it took to shoot Io, robot ( [...] D
Italian censorship visa # 102843 delivered on 19 August 2009. D
The piece of classical music we hear at the start and again at the very end of the film is Ludwig va [...] D
Rose Byrne is seen as a photograph of her dead mother in Lucinda's obituary. D
Final film role of Alethea McGrath. D
Two years earlier, Nicolas Cage portrayed a magician who could see future events in Next (2007). In [...] D
Rose Byrne and Ben Mendelsohn later appear in Come un tuono (2012). D
Marsha Vassilevskaia's debut. D
(at around 5 mins) The text of the time capsule plaque reads: "We, the inaugural grade class of Will [...] D
WILHELM SCREAM: heard during the subway crash. D
In the movie they show an oil rig on fire in the Gulf of Mexico. A little more than a year later on [...] D
The perceptual phenomenon of people looking for patterns in randomness (number strings, faces in tre [...] D
After John first discovers Lucinda's number paper, he watches the news on TV for coverage of disaste [...] D
Shortly before the final devastation we see people rioting and panicking in the streets. However not [...] D
(at around 1h 50 mins) The unreal plants in the grain fields in the end look like a recently discove [...] D
Film debut of Liam Hemsworth and Lesley Anne Mitchell. The latter retired from acting after just thi [...] D
At the ceremony to open the time capsule, the children first sing a song named "This Little Light of [...] D