Description
Knowing DVD 2009 Képlet / Directed by Alex Proyas / Starring: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
UPC 5999075601180
REGION 2 PAL DVD
MADE IN HUNGARY
AUDIO: Hungarian 5.1, English 5.1
SUBTITLES: Hungarian, English
Total Runtime: 116 minutes
English Summary:
Knowing is a 2009 science fiction thriller film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage. The project was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists. Production was financially backed by Summit Entertainment. Knowing was filmed in Docklands Studios Melbourne, Australia, using various locations to represent the film's Boston-area setting.
Plot
In 1959, a Lexington, Massachusetts elementary school celebrates its opening with a competition in which students draw what they believe will happen in the future; the works will be stored in a time capsule that will be opened in fifty years. All of the children create visual works except for Lucinda Embry, who is guided by whispering voices to fill both sides of her paper with a series of numbers with no apparent meaning. Before she can write the final numbers, the allotted time for the task expires and the teacher withdraws the students' drawings. The next day, as the time capsule is buried, the teacher finds Lucinda in a utility closet, engraving the remaining numbers into the door with her fingernails. In 2009, the current class opens the time capsule and distributes the drawings inside among the students. Lucinda's sheet is given to Caleb Koestler, the nine-year-old son of the widowed MIT astrophysics professor John Koestler. John examines Lucinda's sequence of numbers and realizes that it is a coded message that predicts, with perfect precision, the dates and death tolls of major catastrophes over the past fifty years. However, three of the reported events have yet to happen, and one of the dates corresponds to the following day.
Hungarian Summary:
Cast / Szereplők:
- Nicolas Cage as Professor Jonathan "John" Koestler
- Rose Byrne as Diana Wayland / Lucinda Embry-Wayland (photograph)
- Chandler Canterbury as Caleb KoestlerLara Robinson as Young Lucinda Embry / Abby Wayland / Young Diana Wayland (photograph)
- Joshua Long as Young Caleb
- Nadia Townsend as Grace Koestler
- Ben Mendelsohn as Professor Phil Beckman
- Alan Hopgood as Reverend Koestler
- Benita Collings as Mrs. Koestler
- Adrienne Pickering as Allison Koestler
- Liam Hemsworth as Spencer
- Ra Chapman as Jessica
- Lesley Anne Mitchell as Stacy
- Sam Velasquez as Jackson Cinq
- Gareth Yuen as Donald
- Verity Charlton as Kim
- Tamara Donnellan as Mrs. Embry
- Travis Waite as Mr. Embry
- D.G. Maloney, Joel Bow, Maximillian Paul, and Karen Hadfield as The Strangers
- David Lennie as Principal Clark in 1959
- Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen as Principal in 2009
- Alethea McGrath as Priscilla Taylor in 2009
- Danielle Carter as Priscilla Taylor in 1959
Directed by | Alex Proyas |
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Story by | Ryne Douglas Pearson |
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Music by | Marco Beltrami |
Cinematography | Simon Duggan |
Edited by | Richard Learoyd |
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Distributed by | Summit Entertainment |
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116 minutes |
Country | United States United Kingdom |
Language | English |