The Day After Tomorrow

2004
PG-13
2h 4m

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6.5/10

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Disaster Survival Action Adventure Sci-Fi Thriller

Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the p... Read allJack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.Jack Hall, paleoclimatologist, must make a daring trek from Washington, D.C. to New York City to reach his son, trapped in the cross-hairs of a sudden international storm which plunges the planet into a new Ice Age.

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Won 1 BAFTA Award
- 6 wins & 12 nominations total

Trivia
Twentieth Century Fox invited a group of scientists to preview this movie, to test their reactions to the "science" used in it. None of the scientists were impressed with what they saw, although most conceded that the movie was enjoyable nonsense.

Goofs
American glaciologists in Antarctica are heard using US units of measurement during their work. The metric system is in use by glaciologists - even American ones - in all scientific contexts.

Quotes
Library Security Guard: [as Brian works on a radio] Maybe you should have somebody help with that, you know?
Brian Parks: Sir, I am president of the Electronics Club, the Math Club, and the Chess Club. Now, if there's a bigger nerd in here, please... point him out.
Library Security Guard: ...I'll just leave you alone to work on it, then.

Crazy credits
The Fox logo before the credits has a storm in the background.

Connections
Featured in HBO First Look: The Making of 'The Day After Tomorrow' (2004)

Soundtracks
Karma
Written and Performed by Emanuele Arnone (as Fungone)
Courtesy of Compression Records/Magelic Productions Inc.

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8/10

68 Weeks

Godzilla has long been interpreted as a metaphor for the atomic bomb. 'The Day Before Tomorrow' atones for the exploitation of destruction for its own that characterises the disaster movie by addressing the 'unsexy' subject of the consequences of global warming (although Fox has the cheek to inset plugs for Fox News and Sky TV).

The demon king is personified by Kenneth Welsh as a Vice President who bears a suspicious resemblance to his real life template (although you'd never have caught Dick Cheney admitting he'd ever been wrong, as he eventually does here); the film's makers plainly couldn't stomach an accurate representation of George W. Bush.

The film took a lot of flack for the speed with which calamity struck (it's barely been on for a minute before a polar expedition is disrupted by cracks in the ice, soon followed by the money shot of the Statue of Liberty hit by a tidal wave), but has sadly been vindicated by the horror stories you find in practically every paper you've read in the twenty years since it originally hit the screens.