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The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm. It depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation, in which a series of extreme weather events usher in climate change and lead to a new ice age.
Originally slated for release in the summer of 2003, The Day After Tomorrow premiered in Mexico City on May 17, 2004, and was theatrically released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on May 28. It was a commercial success, grossing $552 million worldwide against a production budget of $125 million, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2004. Filmed in Montreal, it was the highest-grossing Hollywood film made in Canada at its time of release. The film was nominated for Best Science Fiction Film and Best Special Effects at the Saturn Awards.
Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist, along with his colleagues Frank and Jason drill for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA, moments before the ice shelf splits away.
At a UN conference in New Delhi, Jack discusses his research showing that climate change could cause an impending ice age, but US Vice President Raymond Becker dismisses his findings. Professor Terry Rapson, an oceanographer of the Hedland Centre in Scotland, believes Jack and befriends him over his views of an inevitable climate shift.
Tokyo is struck by a giant hailstorm, and astronauts from the International Space Station spot three gigantic superstorms above Canada, Europe, and Siberia. Rapson's team in Scotland begins noticing severe temperature drops from multiple buoys in the North Atlantic, realizing Jack's theories were correct, with the climate shift happening too quickly. Remnants of a hurricane spawn a destructive tornado outbreak over the L.A. Basin. Three helicopters sent to rescue the British royal family from Balmoral Castle crash in Scotland after they flew into a superstorm's eye.
Jack and Rapson's teams, along with NASA meteorologist Janet Tokada, built a forecast model based on Jack's research, discovering that the impact of climate change would happen in 6–8 weeks (later discovered as being 7–10 days). Rapson notifies Jack that siphoned air from the upper troposphere flash freezes anything caught in the eyes of the cyclones with temperatures below −150 degrees Fahrenheit (−101 degrees Celsius), which caused the helicopter crash by freezing the fuel on board.
In New York City, Jack's son Sam, along with his friends Brian and Laura, participates in an academic decathlon, where they make a new friend, JD. The North American superstorm creates strong winds and rain that flood Manhattan with knee-deep water. All transportation halts, stranding the city's population. While helping to rescue two French-speaking tourists in distress from a cab with a police officer, Laura cuts her leg. A massive storm surge inundates the city, forcing Sam's group to seek shelter at the New York Public Library. Sam contacts Jack and his mother Lucy, a pediatrician, through a working payphone. Jack warns Sam of the impending superstorm, urges him to stay inside and warm, promising to rescue him. Rapson and his team succumb to the European storm. Lucy remains in her hospital, caring for bedridden patients, where the authorities eventually rescue them.
Upon Jack's suggestion, President Blake orders the populations of the southern states to be evacuated into Mexico. In contrast, the government warns those in the northern areas to seek shelter and stay warm. Jack, Jason, and Frank make their way to NYC. While trekking across Pennsylvania, Frank falls through the skylight of a mall covered in snow and sacrifices himself by cutting his rope to prevent his friends from also falling in. In the library, most survivors set out to join the southern states refugees after the floodwater freezes, despite Sam's warnings. In Mexico, Becker learns that Blake's motorcade perished in the superstorm.
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm. It depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation, in which a series of extreme weather events usher in climate change and lead to a new ice age.
Originally slated for release in the summer of 2003, The Day After Tomorrow premiered in Mexico City on May 17, 2004, and was theatrically released in the United States by 20th Century Fox on May 28. It was a commercial success, grossing $552 million worldwide against a production budget of $125 million, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of 2004. Filmed in Montreal, it was the highest-grossing Hollywood film made in Canada at its time of release. The film was nominated for Best Science Fiction Film and Best Special Effects at the Saturn Awards.
Jack Hall, a paleoclimatologist, along with his colleagues Frank and Jason drill for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA, moments before the ice shelf splits away.
At a UN conference in New Delhi, Jack discusses his research showing that climate change could cause an impending ice age, but US Vice President Raymond Becker dismisses his findings. Professor Terry Rapson, an oceanographer of the Hedland Centre in Scotland, believes Jack and befriends him over his views of an inevitable climate shift.
Tokyo is struck by a giant hailstorm, and astronauts from the International Space Station spot three gigantic superstorms above Canada, Europe, and Siberia. Rapson's team in Scotland begins noticing severe temperature drops from multiple buoys in the North Atlantic, realizing Jack's theories were correct, with the climate shift happening too quickly. Remnants of a hurricane spawn a destructive tornado outbreak over the L.A. Basin. Three helicopters sent to rescue the British royal family from Balmoral Castle crash in Scotland after they flew into a superstorm's eye.
Jack and Rapson's teams, along with NASA meteorologist Janet Tokada, built a forecast model based on Jack's research, discovering that the impact of climate change would happen in 6–8 weeks (later discovered as being 7–10 days). Rapson notifies Jack that siphoned air from the upper troposphere flash freezes anything caught in the eyes of the cyclones with temperatures below −150 degrees Fahrenheit (−101 degrees Celsius), which caused the helicopter crash by freezing the fuel on board.
In New York City, Jack's son Sam, along with his friends Brian and Laura, participates in an academic decathlon, where they make a new friend, JD. The North American superstorm creates strong winds and rain that flood Manhattan with knee-deep water. All transportation halts, stranding the city's population. While helping to rescue two French-speaking tourists in distress from a cab with a police officer, Laura cuts her leg. A massive storm surge inundates the city, forcing Sam's group to seek shelter at the New York Public Library. Sam contacts Jack and his mother Lucy, a pediatrician, through a working payphone. Jack warns Sam of the impending superstorm, urges him to stay inside and warm, promising to rescue him. Rapson and his team succumb to the European storm. Lucy remains in her hospital, caring for bedridden patients, where the authorities eventually rescue them.
Upon Jack's suggestion, President Blake orders the populations of the southern states to be evacuated into Mexico. In contrast, the government warns those in the northern areas to seek shelter and stay warm. Jack, Jason, and Frank make their way to NYC. While trekking across Pennsylvania, Frank falls through the skylight of a mall covered in snow and sacrifices himself by cutting his rope to prevent his friends from also falling in. In the library, most survivors set out to join the southern states refugees after the floodwater freezes, despite Sam's warnings. In Mexico, Becker learns that Blake's motorcade perished in the superstorm.