The Day After Tomorrow 2004

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 118 min

genre: science fiction

theme: disaster

director: Roland Emmerich

Score: 6 / 10

The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm. It 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, a paleoclimatologist, along with his colleagues Frank and Jason drill for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA, moments before the ice shelf splits away.

Cast

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author	Jeffrey Nachmanoff Roland Emmerich Whitley Strieber
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	science fiction
keywords	abandon academic decathlon astronaut balmoral castle british royal family canada cargo ship central park central park zoo cut cyclone discover europe eye fall freeze frozen to death happen helicopter crash help ice age ice core ice-core sample ice sheet international space station l.a. basin larsen ice shelf los angeles basin manhattan meteorologist mexico nasa national oceanic and atmospheric administration new delhi new president noaa north america north atlantic oceanographer oceanography paleoclimatologist paleoclimatology payphone pediatrician pediatrics penicillin pennsylvania police officer president president of the united states royal family russia sepsis siberia space station storm surge temperature drop the international the weather channel their way tornado outbreak trek 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
nomination	Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film Saturn Award for Best Special Effects
producer	Mark Gordon
productionCompany	Centropolis Entertainment Lions Gate Films The Mark Gordon Company
publisher	20th Century Fox
recordedAt	Japan Montreal New York City Toronto
theme	climate change disaster