After the Dark

20132013
RR
1h 47min

After the Dark (2013)

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At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear... Read allAt an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.At an international school in Jakarta, a philosophy teacher challenges his class of twenty graduating seniors to choose which ten of them would take shelter underground and reboot the human race in the event of a nuclear apocalypse.

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Awards
- 1 win & 2 nominations

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After the Dark

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After the Dark

After the Dark

Rhys Wakefield and Sophie Lowe in After the Dark (2013)

Sophie Lowe in After the Dark (2013)

Rhys Wakefield in After the Dark (2013)

James D'Arcy, Daryl Sabara, Bonnie Wright, Rhys Wakefield, Freddie Stroma, Maia Mitchell, Hope Olaidé Wilson, Abhi Sinha, Sophie Lowe, Cinta Laura Kiehl, Philippa Coulthard, Katie Findlay, Erin Moriarty, George Blagden, Jacob Artist, Melissa Le-Vu, Toby Sebastian, Darius Homayoun, Chanelle Bianca Ho, Natasha Gott, and Taser Hassan in After the Dark (2013)

Daryl Sabara, Bonnie Wright, Rhys Wakefield, Freddie Stroma, Maia Mitchell, Hope Olaidé Wilson, Abhi Sinha, Sophie Lowe, Cinta Laura Kiehl, Philippa Coulthard, Katie Findlay, Erin Moriarty, George Blagden, Jacob Artist, Melissa Le-Vu, Toby Sebastian, Darius Homayoun, Chanelle Bianca Ho, Natasha Gott, and Taser Hassan in After the Dark (2013)

James D'Arcy, Daryl Sabara, Bonnie Wright, Rhys Wakefield, Freddie Stroma, Maia Mitchell, Hope Olaidé Wilson, Abhi Sinha, Sophie Lowe, Cinta Laura Kiehl, Philippa Coulthard, Katie Findlay, Erin Moriarty, George Blagden, Jacob Artist, Melissa Le-Vu, Toby Sebastian, Darius Homayoun, Chanelle Bianca Ho, Natasha Gott, and Taser Hassan in After the Dark (2013)

After the Dark (2013)

After the Dark (2013)

Maia Mitchell in After the Dark (2013)

Katie Findlay in After the Dark (2013)

Cinta Laura Kiehl in After the Dark (2013)

Bonnie Wright in After the Dark (2013)

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When the last day of school comes for a group of students in a philosophy class, their instructor, Mr. Zimit, challenges them to different sorts of exercises that take place in a post-nuclear apocalyptic world. While there, they each get chosen professions and have to decide whether who is valuable or not because the bunker they will be staying in for a year has only enough oxygen for 10 people. Mr. Zimit challenges them in different rounds to see how they could survive. Issues arise when they notice Mr. Zimit is disruptive to the game. —James Hake

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Taglines
- Smart. Talented. Beautiful. Stranded.
Genres
Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
- Rated R for some violence, sexuality and brief drug use
Parents guide

Trivia
The names of several of the main characters are never mentioned or shown in the movie, and are only revealed by the cast credits in the closing titles. This applies to Georgina (Bonnie Wright), Yoshiko (Natasha Gott), Utami (Cinta Laura Kiehl) and Kavi (Abhi Sinha), even though most of them had prominent roles in the movie.

Goofs
In the bunker where they lock the teacher behind, he dies from radiation poisoning. He is then later eaten by predatory dogs/wolves.

Any creature large enough to feed on a human would have also died from the exact same radiation poisoning long before it ever got the chance to eat his body.

Even the lower radiation would have killed it on the surface if it'd had been living underground.

Quotes
Chips: In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Crazy credits
"James's poem to Petra by Rhys Wakefield and Sophie Lowe"

Connections
Featured in The Transfiguration (2016)

Soundtracks
Lenten Is Come
Traditional
Arrangement by Robin Snyder
Performed by Briddes Roune
Published by Magnatune
[Courtesy of Magnatune.com]

Top review

5/10

Makes a nose dive in the 2nd half

The beginning is interesting, I would say until the second half. Nothing wildly exciting, has some nice little twist in there but very minimal. It is shot in a dreamy kind of atmosphere. For some completely non-constructive and no where plot related reason the class is in Jakarta (pronounced Yanky style Djakardda) and you can tell this by the teak hardwood furniture and the crickets in the back (duh). The second half is hopeless. All the close ups of clearasil clean pouts, island shots and fuzzy broken sunlight (a lot if it) can't disguise the mouth-breathy throaty delivered "philosophy" to be no more than pretentious romanticism. The ending is a joke. Or maybe it is 'so deep' we all didn't get it. I give it a 5 for the first half.

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Jan 26, 2014

Gross worldwide
- $1,770,376

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Runtime
- 1h 47min
Color
- Color
Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1

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