Knowing PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 1 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: July 7, 2009
- Originally Released: 2009
- Label: Summit Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne & Chandler Canterbury | |
Performer: | Lara Robinson & Ben Mendelsohn | |
Directed by | Alex Proyas | |
Edited by | Richard Learoyd | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Kelly, Juliet Snowden, Stuart Hazeldine, Stiles White, Ryne Douglas Pearson & Alex Proyas | |
Composition by | Marco Beltrami | |
Produced by | Jason Blumenthal, Alex Proyas, Topher Dow, Steve Tisch & Todd Black | |
Director of Photography: | Simon Duggan |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4.5/5 --
Knowing is about faith; the belief that one day the mysteries of the universe will be explained to us, and the knowledge that anything is possible.
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Quickflix
A damned entertaining movie despite the fact that it stars Nicholas Cage.
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rec.arts.movies.reviews
[A] moody and sometimes ideologically provocative film....Director Alex Proyas has long been drawn to otherness. He's definitely mucking around in that and more here, with KNOWING his most overtly allegorical film yet.
Los Angeles Times
If those space-dudes are so friendly, why drive children insane with a bunch of weird code? Why not just show up on The Tonight Show and tell everybody the exact date and time? Lame! Also: Why fake Massachusetts? Why not just say: 'This is Australia.'
ÜberCiné
Rating: 2/5 --
Unbreakable quickly descends into bad CGI set-ups and portentous, hysterical exchanges.
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The List
Rating: 2.5/5 --
A shotgun spray of metaphysics, cosmology, the Old Testament, flying saucers, angels, spooky blonde-haired men in black trench coats, mysterious little black rocks, two cute kids and a moose on fire.
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American Profile
Rating: 3/5 --
Suffice it to say that the last third is a mélange of Close Encounters and Christian eschatology, and you'll wish the film had stopped about 15 minutes sooner.
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Time Out Chicago
Description by OLDIES.com:
In 1958, 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 but one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, Professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts every major disaster of the past 50 years. As John further unravels the document's chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events - the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son.
Special Features
- Director's Commentary
- 2 Behind-the-Scenes featurettes
Product Description:
Based on a story by author Ryne Douglas Pearson, KNOWING is a moody sci-fi thriller that stars Nicolas Cage as John Koestler, a widowed MIT astrophysicist who lives in wooded seclusion with his young son, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury). When Caleb is handed an envelope unearthed from a school time capsule buried 50 years earlier, its cryptic numerical sequence captures the interest of his dad, who soon realizes the powerful significance of the document, which seems to predict major world disasters throughout history. Unfortunately, there are three calamities that have yet to unfold, and John, aided reluctantly by widowed mom Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne) and her daughter, Abby (Lara Robinson), must try to unravel the mystery of the numbers before many more lives are lost.
Alex Proyas’s follow-up to 2004’s I, ROBOT, KNOWING returns to the shadowy atmosphere of the director’s revered cult film, DARK CITY, while staying within the realm of the Hollywood big-budget disaster movie. Though the plot takes some outlandish turns, the film is grounded by solid performances from Cage, Byrne, and the impressive child actors, and Proyas further anchors the proceedings in moments of captivatingly bleak realism. Like the remake of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, KNOWING is a pensive and melancholy thriller that rewards discerning viewers willing to follow its strange and intriguing tale.
Alex Proyas’s follow-up to 2004’s I, ROBOT, KNOWING returns to the shadowy atmosphere of the director’s revered cult film, DARK CITY, while staying within the realm of the Hollywood big-budget disaster movie. Though the plot takes some outlandish turns, the film is grounded by solid performances from Cage, Byrne, and the impressive child actors, and Proyas further anchors the proceedings in moments of captivatingly bleak realism. Like the remake of THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL, KNOWING is a pensive and melancholy thriller that rewards discerning viewers willing to follow its strange and intriguing tale.
Keywords:
Action
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Disaster
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Science-Fiction
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Thriller
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Theatrical Release
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Scientists
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Apocalypse
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Disasters
Product Info
- Sales Rank: 35,369
- UPC: 025192031885
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
- International Shipping: 1 item
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