Rating: Full

 

Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury and Lara Robinson

 

Director: Alex Proyas

 

Writers: Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White

 

Producers: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, Steve Tisch and Alex Proyas

 

Music by: Marco Beltrami

 

Rated: PG-13 for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language

 

Release Date: 03/20/09

 

Favorite Character: John Koestler

 

Quote: “Don’t let him watch the news.”- John Koestler

 

Fun Facts: In the movie they show an oil rig on fire in the Gulf of Mexico. A little more than a year later on April 20, 2010, it became a reality with the BP oil spill in the gulf.

 

This is the film debut for Liam Hemsworth, who would later star in huge films like the Hunger Games.

 

The school in the movie is William Dawes Elementary. William Dawes was one of the riders who, like Paul Revere, warned the minutemen that British troops were coming. Just like a child at his namesake school was trying to warn people what was coming.

 

At the ceremony to open the time capsule, the children first sing a song named “This Little Light of Mine” written by school teacher Harry Dixon Loes around 1920. The lyrics refer to “letting light shine” – a bit of foreshadowing of what is yet to come.

 

Summary: The University Professor studies a mysterious list of numbers from the school time capsule and discovered that’s it’s connected to global disasters past and future.

 

The Review: As it can be a psychic cliché, this is a disaster film no one has done before.