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The Day After Tomorrow

  • 20042004
  • PG-13PG-13
  • 2h 4m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
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The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
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Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the p... Read allJack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
454K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
672
524
    • Roland Emmerich
    • Roland Emmerich(story)
    • Jeffrey Nachmanoff(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Dennis Quaid
    • Jake Gyllenhaal
    • Emmy Rossum
    • Roland Emmerich
    • Roland Emmerich(story)
    • Jeffrey Nachmanoff(screenplay)
  • Stars
    • Dennis Quaid
    • Jake Gyllenhaal
    • Emmy Rossum
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    • 1.3KUser reviews
    • 143Critic reviews
    • 47Metascore
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    • Won 1 BAFTA Award

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    Dennis Quaid
    Dennis Quaid
    • Jack Hall
    Jake Gyllenhaal
    Jake Gyllenhaal
    • Sam Hall
    Emmy Rossum
    Emmy Rossum
    • Laura Chapman
    Dash Mihok
    Dash Mihok
    • Jason Evans
    Jay O. Sanders
    Jay O. Sanders
    • Frank Harris
    Sela Ward
    Sela Ward
    • Dr. Lucy Hall
    Austin Nichols
    Austin Nichols
    • J.D.
    Arjay Smith
    Arjay Smith
    • Brian Parks
    Tamlyn Tomita
    Tamlyn Tomita
    • Janet Tokada
    Sasha Roiz
    Sasha Roiz
    • Parker
    Ian Holm
    Ian Holm
    • Terry Rapson
    Nassim Sharara
    • Saudi Delegate
    Carl Alacchi
    Carl Alacchi
    • Venezuelan Delegate
    Kenneth Welsh
    Kenneth Welsh
    • Vice President Becker
    Michel 'Gish' Abou-Samah
    Michel 'Gish' Abou-Samah
    • Saudi Translator
    • (as Michael A. Samah)
    Robin Wilcock
    Robin Wilcock
    • Tony
    Jason Blicker
    Jason Blicker
    • Paul
    Kenneth Moskow
    Kenneth Moskow
    • Bob
      • Roland Emmerich
      • Roland Emmerich(story) (screenplay)
      • Jeffrey Nachmanoff(screenplay)
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Twentieth Century Fox invited a group of scientists to preview this movie, to test their reactions to the "science" used in it. None of the scientists were impressed with what they saw, although most conceded that the movie was enjoyable nonsense.
    • Goofs
      American glaciologists in Antarctica are heard using US units of measurement during their work. The metric system is in use by glaciologists - even American ones - in all scientific contexts.
    • Quotes

      Vice President Becker: I don't accept that abandoning half of the country is necessary.

      Gomez: Maybe if you would've listened to him sooner, it wouldn't be.

      Vice President Becker: Bullshit! It's easy for him to suggest this plan. He's safely here in Washington.

      Gomez: His son is in Manhattan. I just thought you should know that before you start questioning his motives.

    • Crazy credits
      The Fox logo before the credits has a storm in the background.
    • Connections
      Featured in HBO First Look: The Making of 'The Day After Tomorrow' (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      Karma
      Written and Performed by Emanuele Arnone (as Fungone)

      Courtesy of Compression Records/Magelic Productions Inc.

    User reviews1.3K

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    Clichéd, illogical, unscientific but the first hour really delivers even if the second hour is like the 1970's never happened
    After years of warning about global warning, Jack Hall is horrified to find all his predictions coming true much faster than he could have imagined. Hail stones the size of footballs decimate cities, typhoons destroy Los Angeles and New York becomes flooded. As the big freeze crosses the northern hemisphere, a small group of survivors try to fend off the cold as the world prepares for a dramatic change in the world order.

    This film may be a modern blockbuster but in almost everyway it is a 1970's disaster movie where an event happens after some build up and we then spend the rest of the film watching the survivors trying to, well, survive. In that regard the film carries all the usual problems that the genre carries but happily benefits from the fact that the effects are much better than 1970's movies could manage. For this reason the first hour is great – it has dramatic pace, is involving and looks fantastic even if we have seen it before in different variations (how many times has New York been destroyed now?). However after the sheer global terror is pretty much finished we suddenly become much more small scale and the film looses much of it's impact and it's pace. After the initial danger has passed the film uses illogical and silly plot devices to put the survivors at risk – a cold eye of a storm, blood infections, creeping ice and wolves are among the problems. While this is OK on a genre level it doesn't compare to the first hour and it gets a little dull and plodding at times.

    The clichés are all present and correct: the politicians, the upright scientists, the sacrifice, the daring rescues and so on. It's fair to say that if you are looking for more than a basic script then you will be looking in the wrong place here. All this film does is to provide spectacle and moments of dramatic action – if you want to think about it then you will only hurt your enjoyment of the action. The film tries to deliver an environmental message but in a way this film will not help the environmental movement because it is too exaggerated to be taken seriously (like the idea of Celtic and Man Utd reaching the Champions League final – during this season? Please!), however it does include several surprisingly barbed attacks on the US administration (could the VP look any more like Cheney?). Just a shame that the film message is delivered with all the subtlety that Segal showed when he did something similar in his environmental action film On Deadly Ground.

    The script doesn't really create characters either and it means we don't care that much about what happens to them in the final hour (countless millions are dead for goodness sake!). The dialogue in the first hour is nicely gruff and scientific and very genre but the second hour is more human and the lines aren't suited for that – not even in the hands of an impressive number of good actors. I like Quaid and he is a good lead here, he gets the good scientific stuff and only is lumbered with the rather silly notion of walking to New York from Washington. Gyllenhaal must have upset legions of cult fan boys by appearing in a big budget movie but he does OK with the role (despite looking too old to be in school). The rest of the cast are fairly mixed but, as with the genre, they are just filled even if some are good. Welsh is good even if he was cast for his similarity to Dick Cheney, Holm adds a small bit of dignity in his role as well as being supported by the very fine actor Lester in a minor role. Faces like Sanders, Mihok and a few others don't really matter as they are merely victims waiting for their turn to be used for dramatic effect.

    Overall the first hour of this film is good on a blockbuster level, but it blows it's wad too early (don't ya hate it when that happens?!) and is left with a second hour that is right out of the 1970's with all the weaknesses that that entails. Generally I enjoyed the film because I was just expecting a big noisy movie to pass a few hours – bad script, no characters and lots of clichés? Why would I be surprised by that? It's par for the course and you should not watch this if you know these aspects will annoy you. As it is, it's an average film but one that is noisy and spectacular enough to pass muster in the summer blockbuster stakes.
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    • bob the moo
    • May 31, 2004

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    • Release date
      • May 28, 2004 (United States)
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      • New York Public Library - 476 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Twentieth Century Fox
      • Centropolis Entertainment
      • Lions Gate Films
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