Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 158 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Mild
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
The story
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
- race against time
- maya civilization
- civilization
- natural disaster
- earthquake
- end of the world
- disaster
- apocalypse
- destruction
- volcanic eruption
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
John Cusack
Jackson Curtis
Amanda Peet
Kate Curtis
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Adrian Helmsley
Thandiwe Newton
Laura Wilson
- Oliver Platt — Carl Anheuser
- Tom McCarthy — Gordon Silberman
- Woody Harrelson — Charlie Frost
- Danny Glover — President Thomas Wilson
- Liam James — Noah Curtis
- Morgan Lily — Lilly Curtis
- Zlatko Burić — Yuri Karpov
- Beatrice Rosen — Tamara
- Alexandre Haussmann — Alec
- Philippe Haussmann — Oleg
- Johann Urb — Sasha
- Directed
- Roland Emmerich
- Written
- Harald Kloser, Roland Emmerich
Production
- Rating
- 5.9 / 10 · 12,996 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures, Centropolis Entertainment, Farewell Productions, The Mark Gordon Company
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
