The Day After Tomorrow Movie Review 2004

It was more fun watching the good guys battle aliens in Emmerich's "Independence Day" than this bunch of mopes who try to survive global warming. Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall (Quaid) predicts a new ice age and, sure enough, there's suddenly softball-sized hail blanketing Tokyo, L.A. gets leveled by tornadoes, New York is buried under ice and snow, and most of the northern hemisphere is wiped out just for fun. Jack's intrepid son Sam (Gyllenhaal)is trapped in Manhattan, riding out the weather with some friends in the New York Public Library and flirting with classmate Laura (Rossum). Meanwhile, Dad decides to snowshoe it from D.C. to NYC to rescue his boy. If you like watching familiar monuments destroyed (poor Lady Liberty), this special effects melodrama is for you.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on DVD
Running time 123 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Rescue Missions, Disaster Flicks, Twister!, Flood, Science & Scientists, New York, New York, L.A., Top Grossing Films of 2004

Screenplay

Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff

Cast

Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, Ian Holm, Dash Mihok, Jay O. Sanders, Tamlyn Tomita, Austin Nichols, Arjay Smith, Kenneth Welsh, Glenn Plummer, Nestor Serrano, Adrian Lester, Sheila McCarthy, Perry King

Cinematography

Ueli Steiger

Director

Roland Emmerich

Music

Harold Kloser

Other

Don Cohen, David Brenner, Tom Reta, Claude Pare, Real Proulx, Martin Gendron, Michele Laliberte, Marc Bonin, Renee April, Barry Chusid

Producer

Mark Gordon, Roland Emmerich, Centropolis Entertainment, Lions Gate Films, 20th Century-Fox

Awards

British Acad. 2004: Visual FX.