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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Paul Eric Myers (teleplay) and
David Stevens (teleplay) ...
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Release Date:
14 November 1999 (USA) more
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Tagline:
Terror is off the Richter scale.
Plot:
New York, the city that never sleeps, is trapped in a nightmare of horror and destruction when a massive earthquake rocks the unsuspecting city... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations more
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In this post-9/11 era this movie is more than eerily prophetic and moving. more (23 total)

Cast

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Tom Skerritt ... Thomas Ahearn

Sharon Lawrence ... Dori Thorell

Charles S. Dutton ... Mayor Bruce Lincoln

Lisa Nicole Carson ... Evie Lincoln

Jennifer Garner ... Diane Agostini

Rachel Ticotin ... Elizabeth Perez
Fred Weller ... Nicholai Karvovsky (as Frederick Weller)

Erika Eleniak ... Jillian Parnell (as Erika Eleniak-Goglia)

Mitch Ryan ... Frank Agostini (as Mitchell Ryan)

Cicely Tyson ... Emily Lincoln
Mark Rolston ... Bruce Summerlin, Co. 51
Ray J ... Clayton

JR Bourne ... Joshua Bingham (as J R Bourne)
Michal Suchánek ... Danny Thorell (as Michael Suchanek)
Jerry Adler ... Burt Hornstein
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Aftershock - Das große Beben (Germany)
Erdbeben-Inferno: Wenn die Welt untergeht (Germany) (rerun title)
New York - Der jüngste Tag (Germany) (DVD title)
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Runtime:
170 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
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Trivia:
Chuck Scarborough, the author of the novel, is a veteran local news anchorman in New York City. more

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In this post-9/11 era this movie is more than eerily prophetic and moving., 20 January 2002
Author: amish from Jerusalem, Israel

This movie was shown here (Israel) on the Hallmark channel in Dec 01. As a former New Yorker, and watching it in this post-9/11 era, it was truly eerie, especially since in this film, one of the few sites left standing and untouched was... the Twin Towers.

This movie is based on a novel by one of NY's most familiar faces, former NBC newscaster, and my 'regular' source of info in my NY days, Chuck Scarborough. Perhaps only a real New Yorker could have imagined and foretold such scenes and, knowing the essence of a true New Yorker, written such speeches that eventually proved so prophetic and so amazingly close to reality. Besides the story and text, the scenes and special effects were awesome (even though you *know* looking at them that it's not real).

This will no doubt prove to be the first in many similar disaster films that will be made about NY, be they natural or terrorist, but since this was done three years "before," it makes it more prophecy than mere fiction, and worth seeing.

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