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Knowing
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.
2009 · Directed by Alex Proyas · 121 min · Science Fiction · Thriller · 11 frames
Tagline
What happens when the numbers run out?
Crew
- Screenplay: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White
- Cinematography: Simon Duggan
- Edited by: Richard Learoyd
- Music: Marco Beltrami
- Production design: Steven Jones-Evans
- Produced by: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Alex Proyas, Steve Tisch
Cast
- Nicolas Cage as John Koestler
- Rose Byrne as Diana Wayland
- Chandler Canterbury as Caleb Koestler
- Ben Mendelsohn as Phil Bergman
- Nadia Townsend as Grace Koestler
- Terry Camilleri as Cashier
- Lara Robinson as Lucinda Embry / Abby Wayland
- Adrienne Pickering as Allison
- Danielle Carter as Miss Taylor (1959)
- Alethea McGrath as Miss Taylor (2009)
Production
- Country: United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia
- Language: English
- Studios: Summit Entertainment, Escape Artists, Mystery Clock Cinema, Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment
- Budget: $50,000,000
- Box office: $155,446,362
- Themes: cataclysm, melancholy, code, alien, time capsule, end of the world, astrophysicist, grieving widower, lexington massachusetts, westford massachusetts
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