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Release Date:
20 March 2009 (USA)
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Tagline:
Knowing is Everything... more
Plot:
A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold. full summary | full synopsis
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David Michôd talks Sundance success
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Birds Remake Director Martin Campbell Flies the Coop
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(From Twitch. 8 December 2009, 2:49 AM, PST)
Birds Remake Director Martin Campbell Flies the Coop
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Nicolas Cage | ... | John Koestler | |
| Chandler Canterbury | ... | Caleb Koestler | |
| Rose Byrne | ... | Diana Wayland | |
| Lara Robinson | ... | Abby Wayland / Lucinda | |
| D.G. Maloney | ... | The Stranger | |
| Nadia Townsend | ... | Grace Koestler | |
| Alan Hopgood | ... | Reverend Koestler | |
| Adrienne Pickering | ... | Allison Koestler | |
| Joshua Long | ... | Younger Caleb | |
| Danielle Carter | ... | Miss Taylor (1959) | |
| Alethea McGrath | ... | Miss Taylor (2009) | |
| David Lennie | ... | Principal Clark (1959) | |
| Tamara Donnellan | ... | Lucinda's Mother | |
| Travis Waite | ... | Lucinda's Father | |
| Ben Mendelsohn | ... | Phil Beckman |
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Know1ng (USA) (promotional title)
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Rated PG-13 for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language.
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121 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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USA:PG-13 (certificate #45115) |
Ireland:15A |
Australia:M |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Vaud) |
Switzerland:14 (canton of Geneva) |
Canada:14A (Alberta/British Columbia/Manitoba/Ontario) |
South Korea:12 |
UK:15 |
Singapore:PG |
Argentina:13 |
Germany:12 |
Czech Republic:12 |
Hong Kong:IIB |
Belgium:KT |
Finland:K-13 |
Norway:15 |
Netherlands:12 |
Mexico:B |
Portugal:M/12 |
Sweden:15 |
Iceland:12 |
Peru:14 |
Japan:G |
Brazil:12 |
South Africa:13V |
New Zealand:M
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WILHELM SCREAM: heard during the subway crash.
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Continuity: In the opening classroom sequence, the clock on the wall behind the teacher remains at 1:10 throughout the majority of the scene, despite the obvious passage of time. The next time the clock is seen the hands have jumped to 3:00.
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Featured in Knowing All: The Making of a Futuristic Thriller (2009) (V)
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News Theme
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Why were only the children taken? Aren't children too young to take care of themselves?Were the whisper people angels or aliens?
Is this movie based on a book?
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When I first heard about this, I dismissed it as another special effects oriented piece of Hollywood junk, but when I heard that it came from Alex Proyas, the skilled Sci-fi director behind The Crow and Dark City I gave it a shot. Well It's certainly not junk. Up until the ending, Knowing is a well paced, fairly emotional and very startling picture.
The premise is based around one of the greatest scientific controversies, whether the universe is random, or if things happen for a reason. Nicholas Cage is John Koestler, an astrophysisist, a widower and a highly depressed man. On the day of his son's graduation, the school digs up a time capsule buried fifty years ago. Inside are dozens of envelopes containing student's illustrations of what the future would look like. John's son brings home one of the envelopes, but instead of a drawing inside, there is a page full of random numbers. That night John discovers a sequence in the numbers, which reveals a deadly fact. Something with the potential to the whole planet.
From the look of things, It feels like Alex Proyas is desperate to make the biggest natural disaster film of all time. It is certainly one of the most complex. The elaborate plot does not harm the flow of the film too much until the concluding twenty minutes which are visually stunning but ridiculous and quite irrelevant to everything that proceeded it. Part of the ending is a direct rip-off of Close Encounters of The Third Kind.
One other thing worth noting about the film, is the score. With the exception of Chistopher Nolan's two Batman movies, I can't say I've seen a lot of Summer blockbusters which contain music that you actually become aware of. Usually it is taken for granted, going in one ear and out the other, but not in Knowing.
The film is absurd yes, but I didn't feel like my intelligence was insulted terribly, so I'd recommend it if it's your kind of thing.