The Day After Tomorrow - L'alba del giorno dopo

Titolo originale: The Day After Tomorrow
Regia: Roland Emmerich |
Anno: 2004
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Fantascienza Thriller Avventura
Tag: new york city | philadelphia, pennsylvania | saving the world | scotland | climate change | greenhouse effect | tornado | hurricane | hail | temperature drop | ice age | polar zone | barrier ice | ice melting | evacuation | flooding | rescue mission | global warming | tsunami | end of the world | snow | scientist | united nations | high school student | climatologist | freezing | frozen alive | disaster movie | snowed in | typhoon | cataclysmic storm | new york public library | global catastrophe | climate science | climate crisis | superstorm | torrential rain | mass casualties |
Cast: Dennis Quaid | Jake Gyllenhaal | Emmy Rossum | Dash Mihok | Jay O. Sanders | Sela Ward | Austin Nichols | Arjay Smith | Tamlyn Tomita | Sasha Roiz | Ian Holm | Richard McMillan | Nassim Sharara | Carl Alacchi | Kenneth Welsh | Michel 'Gish' Abou-Samah | Kenneth Moskow | Glenn Plummer | Adrian Lester | Nestor Serrano | John Maclaren | Richard Zeman | Perry King | Mimi Kuzyk | Vitali Makarov | Russell Yuen | Tim Bagley | Chris Britton | Christian Tessier | Rick Hoffman | Alan Fawcett | Sheila McCarthy | Amy Sloan | Karen Glave | Joe Cobden | Caroline Keenan | Matt Adler | Nobuya Shimamoto | Robin Wilcock | Jesus Perez | Wendy L. Walsh |

Il paleo-climatologo Jack Hall, dopo essere rientrato da un carotaggio antartico, fa un appello al mondo, in particolare al presidente degli Stati Uniti che poco gli da ascolto. Jack ha scoperto che, la continua immissione di acqua dolce negli oceani causata dal progressivo disgelo dei poli, potrebbe causare l’inversione delle correnti, e determinare le condizioni di una nuova glaciazione sulla terra. Non viene data importanza alla notizia e ben presto si verificano delle catastrofi: chicchi di grandine delle dimensioni di un ananas flagellano Tokyo, uragani di una violenza mai registrata si abbattono sulle Hawaii, Nuova Delhi è sepolta sotto la neve, e Los Angeles viene spazzata da una serie di tornadi devastanti. Mentre tutti fuggono in direzione sud, Jack deve riuscire a raggiungere New York travolta da un freddo gelido, per salvare suo figlio Sam che si trova nella Public Library di Manhattan.

Approfondimenti

By 2021, enough real world extreme "once in a lifetime" meteorological and natural events had happen [...] D
Has the biggest opening weekend gross for a movie that did not reach number one at the U.S. box-offi [...] D
Roland Emmerich directed a similar disaster movie five years later, 2012 (2009). D
The whole wolves attacking the ship sequence took only five days to film. D
Reportedly, Perry King was cast as the U.S. President as an inside joke, due to his strong resemblan [...] D
According to Roland Emmerich, Emmy Rossum gave Jake Gyllenhaal a deep French kiss during their first [...] D
In 2008, Yahoo! Movies listed this movie as one of the Top 10 Scientifically Inaccurate Movies. D
According to Google Map, a walk from Philadelphia to New York City would take a total of 30 hours of [...] D
Kenneth Welsh appeared in S.O.S. - La natura si scatena (2005), another weather disaster movie. The [...] D
The opening shot of the ice shelf is completely CGI, and lasts just over two and a half minutes. D
The river crossing scene was filmed on the U.S.-Mexico border. The extras really were crossing the R [...] D
Some movie posters featured a fallen Statue of Liberty which was a design concept which has also bee [...] D
The 6th highest grossing film of 2004. D
The ice barrage seen in the beginning of the movie was shot in Toronto. When the business man drops [...] D
The script was effectively auctioned out to all the major movie studios by being sent out with a win [...] D
Kirsten Dunst: standing behind Sam, near his elbow, with her sweater pulled up over her nose and mou [...] D
Roland Emmerich confided that the Statue of Liberty would be turned over by the force of the massive [...] D
A storm swell approaches New York City, hitting the Statue of Liberty's heels. The statue is 305 fee [...] D
Kenneth Welsh (U.S. Vice President), Mimi Kuzyk, and Chuck Shamata were born in Canada. D
When Sam and Laura get the question right at the decathalon, the next question asked was "In what ye [...] D
Lindsay Lohan was in talks to play Laura, and came close to signing a contract to appear in the movi [...] D
The movie establishes that the storm will affect all the Northern hemisphere, but that some countrie [...] D
Two library-bound survivors ask whether they should burn the works of Friedrich Nietzsche, whose "Th [...] D
The production team had some doubts about having a major disaster hit New York City, especially afte [...] D
Twentieth Century Fox invited a group of scientists to preview this movie, to test their reactions t [...] D
While speaking to fans in Denver, Roland Emmerich said he became interested in doing a movie involvi [...] D
Harald Kloser's score for this movie landed him the gig for Alien vs. Predator (2004). D
Writer/producer/director Roland Emmerich estimated that at least 1,000 digital artists worked on thi [...] D
On the bookshelf behind Jack's bed are the novels "Sacred" and "Gone, Baby, Gone" by Dennis Lehane, [...] D
The movie had a subplot involving Rick Hoffman that was mostly cut out of the movie, where Hoffman a [...] D
Promoted with Countdown-to-Doomsday style clocks in theaters. D
Nine special effects houses worked on this movie for over a year. D
In the movie, several tornadoes devastate Los Angeles' downtown and the surrounding area. Although i [...] D
While filming the tsunami scene, Jake Gyllenhaal needed to use the restroom very badly, so he went i [...] D
The cover art of the original DVD and Blu-ray cases of this movie showed the original poster showing [...] D
Roland Emmerich started writing the screenplay while he was filming Il patriota (2000). He stopped a [...] D
The Red Cross put up several stands at theaters in the U.S. featuring pamphlets with information on [...] D
Kenneth Welsh played U.S. President Harry S. Truman in Hiroshima (1995). D
The flat image of the Earth surface used during the presentation is available to the public, and can [...] D
The woman sitting behind Jake Gyllenhaal looks right at the camera several times from 16:24 in to 16 [...] D
This is the third film to feature the Statue of Liberty getting hit by a massive wave, after "Deluge [...] D
The reporter who calls the weather center about the hail says it's golf ball sized. The hail is clea [...] D
This movie was originally scripted with Sam and his friends as eleven-year-olds. Writer and director [...] D
In the first scene in the movie, a portion of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica breaks off. At th [...] D
The archaic English word "overmorrow" means "the day after tomorrow", or the German equivalent "ü [...] D
The tidal wave that struck Manhattan would have demolished the skyscrapers that it hit & it would ha [...] D
The breath appearing out of the actors' and actresses' mouths in the cold scenes was all put in afte [...] D
The Manchester United player who is seen scoring is Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy. It was a frie [...] D
Domestically speaking, as of 2008, it has the second highest gross for a movie that did not reach nu [...] D
The idea that Friedrich Nietzsche and his sister had an incestuous relationship is based on "My Sist [...] D
During the party after the first round, Sam's "Hello My Name Is..." sticker bears the name "Yoda", a [...] D
When the people of New York City are walking on the ice, the police officer's vest is half-covered, [...] D
A bottle of The Balvenie Doublewood 12 Year Old, Single Malt Scotch Whisky was used for the final to [...] D
The United States Embassy in Mexico was actually the Centro Vida/Life Center Ministries and school i [...] D
The highest grossing movie to be made in Canada. D
Sam attends Woodmont Public School in Arlington, Virginia. The name is real, but the building is emp [...] D
The casting of Kenneth Welsh as the Vice President was controversial, due to his physical resemblanc [...] D
Kenneth Welsh and Chuck Shamata appeared in Il giustiziere della notte 5 (1994). D
The eye of the storm is meant to draw supercooled air from the upper troposphere, & is stated for be [...] D
The consultation by N.A.S.A. scientists was requested before the filming of this movie, but N.A.S.A. [...] D
Towards the end of the movie, when the President is giving his "thanking the third-world countries" [...] D
At 26:49 on the two-disc Special Edition, the second commentary track says that the helicopter used [...] D
When the camera pulls away from the Earth after the astronaut exclaims "the air is so clear" the ima [...] D
Emmy Rossum accepted the role of Laura after Lindsay Lohan had to drop out due to scheduling conflic [...] D
The tornado destruction of Los Angeles was the final scene to win the Best Action Sequence award for [...] D
DVD sales brought in an extra $110 million in revenue. D
Tamlyn Tomita who plays a hurricane expert played a Okinawan who had to ride out a typhoon in "Karat [...] D
Roland Emmerich was paid $10 million for his work on the film. He also had a 10% stake in the overal [...] D
South Park (1997) creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone managed to get their hands on a copy of this m [...] D
The footage of the plane that crashed in the Midwest before the FAA's flight ban is footage of a Jan [...] D
During the tornado sequence in Los Angeles a reporter is hit by a fallen billboard. The billboard is [...] D
The U.S. Army loaned several UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters for the rescue scene at the end, prompting [...] D
On the shot that shows the front of the library, lamps are seen instead of the iconic lions. Accordi [...] D
In the tornado sequence, the janitor is listening to a soccer match in his headphones. The match he [...] D
Dennis Quaid and Tamlyn Tomita appeared in Benvenuti in paradiso (1990). D