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Final Destination 2
When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.
2003 · Directed by David R. Ellis · 90 min · Horror · Mystery · Screenplay in the scene database · 10 frames
Tagline
For every beginning there is an end.
Plot
One year after the explosion of Flight 180, college student Kimberly Corman is heading to Daytona Beach, Florida, for spring break with her friends Shaina, Dano, and Frankie. On the entrance ramp to U.S. Route 23, she has a premonition of a deadly pile-up caused by a logging truck. Kimberly stalls her car and steps out, preventing eight people from entering Route 23: state trooper Thomas Burke, high school teacher Eugene Dix, stoner Rory Peters, businesswoman Kat Jennings, widowed mother Nora Carpenter and her fifteen-year-old son Tim, lottery winner Evan Lewis, and pregnant delivery driver Isabella Hudson. As Burke questions Kimberly, the pile-up occurs, and a car carrier crashes into Kimberly's car, killing Shaina, Dano, and Frankie. Burke pulls Kimberly away from the crash in time, saving her life.
The survivors return to their respective homes, where a fire escape ladder fatally impales Evan when he attempts to flee from a stovetop fire in his apartment. Sensing Death's presence, Kimberly seeks help from Clear Rivers, who has hidden from Death in a psychiatric ward after Alex Browning was killed by a falling brick, making her the last survivor of Flight 180. Clear tells Kimberly that their survival provoked Death to kill them in the order they would have died at Route 23 but concludes that Death must be working backwards since Kimberly's friends died before Evan – while Kimberly survived because of Burke's intervention – unlike in Kimberly's premonition, where they all died after Evan. Clear also tells Kimberly to look for omens and save herself, warning her that Burke's rescue merely puts her after him on Death's list.
Kimberly sees omens of Tim's death but fails to save him from being crushed by a glass pane. Clear decides to leave the ward and introduces Kimberly and Burke to a mortician, William Bludworth, who tells them that only "new life" can defeat Death. Burke holds Isabella in custody under false charges to protect her, believing that the birth of her baby would create the loophole they need to ruin Death's design. He gathers the other survivors in his apartment for safety, but when Nora leaves, a chain reaction causes the doors of an elevator to decapitate her. Eugene attempts suicide with Burke's gun, but it repeatedly misfires; Clear rationalizes that it is not Eugene's turn to die.
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Crew
- Screenplay: J. Mackye Gruber, Eric Bress
- Cinematography: Gary Capo
- Edited by: Eric A. Sears
- Music: Shirley Walker
- Production design: Michael S. Bolton
- Produced by: Warren Zide, Craig Perry
Cast
- A.J. Cook as Kimberly Corman
- Ali Larter as Clear Rivers
- Michael Landes as Thomas Burke
- David Paetkau as Evan Lewis
- James Kirk as Tim Carpenter
- Lynda Boyd as Nora Carpenter
- Keegan Connor Tracy as Kat
- Jonathan Cherry as Rory
- Terrence 'T.C.' Carson as Eugene Dix
- Justina Machado as Isabella Hudson
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: New Line Cinema, Zide-Perry Productions
- Budget: $26,000,000
- Box office: $90,941,129
- Themes: ambulance, car crash, sequel, premonition, vision, hospital, death, cheating death, supernatural horror, horror
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