The Day After Tomorrow (2004)The movie The Day After Tomorrow was released in 2004 by 20th
Century Fox and directed by Roland Emmerich. The movie stars Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Ella Rossum.
I believe this film made a feeble attempt to capture the catastrophic effects of global warming and global cooling. The premise that another "ice age" may come was promising, but failed to deliver actuality. Global warming is a huge factor in the shifting of the global climate, but it is a slow process and it became hard to believe that within days the whole climate shift will cause tornadoes in southern California, large hale storms in Japan, and global freezing of objects almost instantaneously in the northern part of the world. I give it kudos for visualization of the destructive storms and really not much else. Maybe this is what forced Jake Gyllenhaal to make "Brokeback Mountain" the following year. Enjoy the trailer!
Synopsis: The movie starts with Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) and his colleague taking ice core samples in Antarctica. Their findings indicate an imminent shift in global climates, but do not have have an idea as to when it will occur. So many diplomats including the Vice President of the United States are left unconvinced, except for a professor of the Hedland Climate Research in Scotland. Fast forward back into the US, Jack's son (Sam, played by Gyllenhaal) is headed for an academic competition in New York with the rest of his braniac friends. During their stay in New York an enormous tidal wave consumes most of New York and traps them in a library with other survivors that managed to escape the destructive wave. In other parts of the world, a large hail storm bombards Japan, tornadoes rip up southern California, and a huge superstorm causes temperatures to drop below -150F over the European continent causing a sudden ice age. The global shift has occurred at an alarming rate. Jack and two of his colleagues set out to save his son and others that may have survived the destructive wave and deep freeze that followed. Cheers! Jason
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