The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

With THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, director Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA) trades evil aliens and radioactive lizards in for some seriously bad weather. When a radical change in the temperature of the world's oceans causes deadly storms and sets a new Ice Age in motion, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) must race from Washington D.C. to save his son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), in the subzero climes of New York City. Elsewhere, tornadoes and hail menace the globe, leading to international disasters on an extraordinary level.

Emmerich, who has proven to be a master of big-budget cinematic destru...
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ction on numerous occasions, aims to outdo himself with THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW. Here entire cities are ripped apart, flooded, and/or frozen, adding up to one of the biggest disaster movies ever filmed. Although astonishingly rendered special effects rule the movie, adept actors such as Quaid and Gyllenhaal (along with Sela Ward, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and others) turn in solid performances that help to balance out the meteorological mayhem. Surprisingly, Emmerich also uses the film as a vehicle for clever moments of social and political commentary, making THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW admirably smarter and considerably more entertaining than typical Hollywood blockbusters.
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A peaceful Midwestern city attempts to recover after it is destroyed by a nuclear missile strike in this powerful and deeply disturbing testament to the folly of pro-military hawks who believed that annihilation was a justifiable means of attaining power and control. The Day After originally aired on network television. At the end of the broadcast, many stations offered teams of counselors staffing 800 telephone numbers to help distraught viewers calm down.

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Weerdeskundige Jack Hall waarschuwt met weinig succes voor de invloed die de opwarming van de aardbol zal hebben op het klimaat. Wanneer het noordelijk halfrond van de planeet daadwerkelijk het slachtoffer wordt van tornado's, overstromingen en gigantisch lage temperaturen wordt hij eindelijk serieus genomen. Terwijl het zuiden van Amerika in aller ijl wordt geëvacueerd, wordt de noorderlingen geadviseerd binnen te blijven, en op het beste te hopen. Hall besluit naar het noorden af te reizen om hier zijn zoon te vinden, die samen met enkele medestudenten gestrand is in een bibliotheek.

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