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The Day After Tomorrow

The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film directed, co-written, and co-produced by Roland Emmerich and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm. Based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, the film depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation, in which a series of extreme weather events usher in climate change and lead to a new ice age.

Plot

Jack Hall, an American paleoclimatologist, and his colleagues Frank and Jason, drill for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA, when the ice shelf splits away. At a UN conference in New Delhi, Jack discusses his research showing that climate change could cause an ice age, but US Vice President Raymond Becker dismisses his concerns. Professor Terry Rapson, an oceanographer of the Hedland Centre in Scotland, befriends Jack over his views of an inevitable climate shift. When several buoys in the Atlantic Ocean show a severe temperature drop, Rapson concludes Jack's theories are correct. Jack's and Rapson's teams, along with NASA meteorologist Janet Tokada, build a forecast model based on Jack's research. Jack tries to get Becker to consider evacuations in the northern states, but Becker refuses.

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    contentLocation Delhi Los Angeles New York City New York Public Library Scotland Tokyo Washington, D.C.
    director Roland Emmerich
    editor David Brenner
    events extreme weather global cooling Shutdown of thermohaline circulation
    genre action science fiction thriller
    keywords abandon academic decathlon astronaut atlantic ocean balmoral castle british royal family buoy canada central park central park zoo cut europe eye fall frozen to death ice age ice sheet international space station larsen ice shelf manhattan meteorologist mexico nasa national oceanic and atmospheric administration new delhi new president noaa north america northern hemisphere oceanographer oceanography paleoclimatologist paleoclimatology payphone pediatrician pediatrics penicillin pennsylvania police officer president president of the united states royal family russia sepsis siberia space station speaking tour storm surge temperature drop the international the weather channel their way tornado outbreak tropical depression troposphere un united nations united states academic decathlon united states presidential line of succession us vice president vice president vice president of the united states warn wolf
    musicBy Harald Kloser
    producer Mark Gordon
    productionCompany Centropolis Entertainment Lionsgate Films The Mark Gordon Company
    publisher 20th Century Fox
    recordedAt Japan Montreal New York City Toronto
    theme climate change disaster science fiction action science fiction thriller