Knowing [videorecording] / Summit Entertainment presents an Escape Artists production in association with Mystery Clock Cinema, an Alex Proyas film ; produced by Todd Black ... [et al.] ; story by Ryne Douglas Pearson ; screenplay by Ryne Douglas Pearson and Juliet Snowden & Stiles White ; directed by Alex Proyas.
Special features: Audio commentary with director Alex Proyas; Knowing all: the making of a futuristic thriller; Visions of the apocalypse. Donated by the Friends of the Oelwein Public Library. Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Lara Robinson, Ben Mendelsohn.
Summary:
In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. With the reluctant help of the daughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John's increasingly desperate efforts take him on a race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster and the ultimate sacrifice.
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