Knowing

Knowing
Movie · Sci-Fi · Thriller

Academy Award Winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in Knowing, an action-thriller about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future and sets out to prevent them from coming true. In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsules contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb’s father, professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As Ted further unravels the documents chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Teds attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place. With the reluctant help of Diana Whelan and Abby, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John’s increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster and the ultimate sacrifice.

2009 · 2h 1m
  • 35%
  • 15+
Starring Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury
Director Alex Proyas

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Cast & Crew

  • Nicolas Cage
    John Koestler
  • Rose Byrne
    Diana Wayland
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    Caleb Koestler
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    Lucinda Embry
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Knowing

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Academy Award Winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in Knowing, an action-thriller about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future and sets out to prevent them from coming true. In 1958, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsules contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it is Caleb’s father, professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past 50 years. As Ted further unravels the documents chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve Ted and his son. When Teds attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place. With the reluctant help of Diana Whelan and Abby, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John’s increasingly desperate efforts take him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster and the ultimate sacrifice.

15+

COMMON SENSE

Grim sci-fi thriller is too intense for young kids.

35%

TOMATOMETER
Average 4.9
Reviews 180
Fresh 63
Rotten 117

Information

Studio
Summit Entertainment
Released
2009
Run Time
2 hr 1 min
Rated
PG-13 For disaster sequences, disturbing images, and brief strong language.
Regions of Origin
United States, Australia, United Kingdom
© 2009 Summit Entertainment, LLC.Tous droits réservés.

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Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
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