The Day After Tomorrow

Movie Details:

Cast & Characters:

• Dennis Quaid as Jack Hall, a NOAA paleoclimatologist.
• Jake Gyllenhaal as Sam Hall, Jack’s son.
• Sela Ward as Dr. Lucy Hall, a pediatrician who is Jack’s wife and Sam’s mother.
• Emmy Rossum as Laura Chapman, Sam’s friend and love interest.
• Ian Holm as Terry Rapson, a Scottish oceanographer of Scotland’s Hedland Centre.
• Arjay Smith as Brian Parks, a high school student and Sam and Laura’s friend.
• Austin Nichols as J.D., a preparatory school student of very wealthy parents who befriends Sam, Laura, and Brian.
• Dash Mihok as Jason Evans, Jack’s colleague
• Jay O. Sanders as Frank Harris, Jack’s colleague
• Kenneth Welsh as Raymond Becker, the Vice President of the United States who later succeeds Blake.
• Perry King as Richard Blake, the President of the United States
• Nestor Serrano as Tom Gomez, a NOAA administrator
• Tamlyn Tomita as Janet Tokada, a NASA meteorologist
• Glenn Plummer as Luther, a homeless New Yorker with a dog named “Buddha” who gets trapped in the library.
• Adrian Lester as Simon, Rapson’s colleague.
• Richard McMillan as Dennis, Rapson’s colleague.
• Sasha Roiz as Parker, an ISS astronaut.
• Christopher Britton as Vorsteen
• Amy Sloan as Elsa, a young woman trapped with Sam and the others in the New York Public Library.
• Sheila McCarthy as Judith, a librarian at the New York Public Library.
• Tom Rooney as Jeremy, a man trapped with Sam and the others in the New York Public Library who saves a 15th century Gutenberg Bible from being burned.
• Christian Tessier as Aaron
• Mimi Kuzyk as the Secretary of State
• Chuck Shamata as Army General Pierce
• Rick Hoffman as Gary
• Jason Blicker as Paul
• Robin Wilcock as Tony
• Ayana O’Shun as Jama, a Senegalese woman traveling to New York with her daughter, Binata.
• Marylou Belugou as Binata, Jama’s daughter.

Storyline:

As Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall is in Antartica, he discovers that a huge ice sheet has sheared off. But what he does not know is that this event will trigger a massive climate shift that will affect the world population. Meanwhile, his son Sam is with friends in New York City to attend an event. There, they discover that it has been raining non-stop for the past three days, and after a series of weather-related disasters begin to occur all over the world, everybody realizes the world is about to enter a new Ice Age and the world population begins trying to evacuate to the warmer climates of the south. Jack makes a daring attempt to rescue his son and his friends who are stuck in New York City and who have managed to survive not only a massive wave but also freezing cold temperatures that could possibly kill them.

About Movie:

The Day After Tomorrow is an American science fiction disaster film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Roland Emmerich, inspired by the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber. The film stars Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Sela Ward, Emmy Rossum, and Ian Holm.

Principal photography took place mainly in Montreal and Toronto, with additional scenes filmed in New York City and Tokyo. Filming spanned from November 7, 2002, to October 18, 2003.

The film involved 416 visual effects shots, contributed by nine effects houses, including Industrial Light & Magic and Digital Domain, with over 1,000 artists working for more than a year.

Initially set for a 2003 release, The Day After Tomorrow premiered in Mexico City on May 17, 2004, and opened in U.S. theaters on May 28. It grossed $552 million worldwide against a $125 million budget, becoming the sixth-highest-grossing film of the year and the top-grossing Hollywood film made in Canada at that time. While the film received mixed reviews, it was nominated for Best Science Fiction Film and Best Special Effects at the Saturn Awards.

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