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Directed by : Roland Emmerich
Produced by : Roland Emmerich,Mark Gordon,Harald Kloser,Larry J. Franco,Ute Emmerich
Written by : Harald Kloser,Roland Emmerich
Starring : John Cusack,Chiwetel Ejiofor,Amanda Peet,Liam James,Morgan Lily,Thomas McCarthy,Zlatko Burić,Beatrice Rosen,Oliver Platt,Thandie Newton,Danny Glover,Woody Harrelson
Music by : Harald Kloser,Thomas Wander
Cinematography : Dean Semler
Editing by : David Brenner,Peter S. Elliott
Studio : Centropolis Entertainment
Distributed by : Columbia Pictures
Release date(s) : November 11, 2009 (2009-11-11)
United States :- November 13, 2009 (2009-11-13)
Running time : 158 minutes
Country : United States,Canada
Language : English,Russian,Tibetan
Budget : $200 million
Gross revenue : $769,675,494
Plot
In 2009, Dr. Adrian Helmsley, an American geologist, visits astrophysicist Dr. Satnam Tsurutani in India and learns that neutrinos from a massive solar flare are causing the temperature of the Earth's core to increase rapidly. Adrian informs White House Chief of Staff Carl Anheuser and United States President Thomas Wilson that this will trigger a catastrophic chain of natural disasters. In 2010, Wilson, along with other international leaders, begins a massive, secret project intended to ensure humanity's survival. Approximately 400,000 people are chosen to board ships called "arks" that are constructed at Cho Ming, Tibet in the Himalayas. Additional funding for the project is raised by selling tickets to the private sector for €1 billion per person. By 2011, they start secretly moving humanity's valuable treasures to the Himalayas under the guise of protecting them from terrorist attacks.
In 2012, Jackson Curtis is a science fiction writer in Los Angeles who works part-time as a limousine driver for Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov. Jackson's ex-wife Kate and their children Noah and Lily live with Kate's boyfriend, plastic surgeon and amateur pilot, Gordon Silberman. Jackson takes Noah and Lily camping in Yellowstone National Park, where they meet Charlie Frost, who hosts a radio show from the park. Charlie references a theory that suggests the Mesoamerican Long Count Calendar predicts that the 2012 phenomenon is going to occur. He has a map of the ark project in addition to information of government officials and scientists from around the world who were murdered after discovering information about the ark project and trying to alert the public. The family returns home as seismic activity increases along the west coast of the United States. Jackson grows suspicious and rents a plane to rescue his family. He collects his family and Gordon as the Earth crust displacement begins, and they narrowly escape Los Angeles using a Cessna 340 as the city slides into the Pacific Ocean.
As millions die in cataclysmic earthquakes worldwide, the group flies to Yellowstone to retrieve Charlie's map, escaping as the Yellowstone Caldera erupts. Staying behind to broadcast the eruption, Charlie is killed in the blast. Learning the arks are in China, the group lands in Las Vegas. They meet Yuri, his twin sons, girlfriend Tamara and pilot Sasha. The group secures an Antonov 500 aircraft and departs for China. Also heading for the arks aboard Air Force One are Anheuser, Helmsley, and First Daughter Laura Wilson. President Wilson chooses to remain in Washington, D.C. and is killed by a megatsunami which sends the USS John F. KennedyWhite House. With the Vice President dead and the Speaker of the Housede facto leadership of the United States. crashing into the missing, Anheuser assumes
Arriving in China in a crash landing that kills Sasha, the group is spotted by the People's Liberation Army. Yuri and his sons, possessing tickets, are taken to the arks. The Curtis family, Gordon and Tamara, none of whom possess tickets, are picked up by Nima, a Buddhist monk on his way to the arks. They stowaway with the help of Nima's brother, Tenzin, who has been working on the ark project's construction crew. As a megatsunami approaches the site while thousands of people attempt to board the final ark, a large impact driver becomes lodged between the gears of the ark's hydraulics chamber, preventing a boarding gate from closing and rendering the ship unable to start its engines. In the ensuing chaos Yuri, Gordon and Tamara are killed, Tenzin is wounded and the flooding ark is set adrift. Jackson and Noah free the impact driver from the closing mechanism and the crew regains control of the ark, preventing a collision with Mount Everest.
After floodwaters from the tsunamis recede, three arks set sail for the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa, where the Drakensberg Mountains have risen in relation to sea level. Jackson reconciles with his family and Adrian starts a relationship with Laura. The Earth is shown from space, revealing a radically changed continental landscape.
Cast
- John Cusack as Jackson Curtis, a struggling science fiction novelist who occasionally works as a limousine driver
- Chiwetel Ejiofor as Dr. Adrian Helmsley, geologist and scientific advisor to the President of the USA
- Amanda Peet as Kate Curtis, a medical student and Jackson's ex-wife
- Liam James as Noah Curtis, Jackson and Kate's son
- Morgan Lily as Lilly Curtis, Jackson and Kate's daughter
- Thomas McCarthy as Dr. Gordon Silberman, Kate's current boyfriend, a plastic surgeon
- Danny Glover as Thomas Wilson, the President of the United States.
- Thandie Newton as Dr. Laura Wilson, President Wilson's daughter
- Oliver Platt as Carl Anheuser, the President's Chief of Staff
- Zlatko Burić as Yuri Karpov, a Russian billionaire
- Beatrice Rosen as Tamara, Yuri's Russian girlfriend
- Alexandre Haussmann as Alec Karpov, one of Yuri's sons
- Philippe Haussmann as Oleg Karpov, Alec's twin brother
- Woody Harrelson as Charlie Frost, a scientist disguised as a Yellowstone hermit who explains the Mayan 2012 legends to Jackson Curtis
- Chin Han as Tenzin, a worker in Tibet
- Osric Chau as Nima, a Buddhist monk and Tenzin's brother
- Lisa Lu as Grandma Sonam, Nima and Tenzin's grandmother.
- John Billingsley, as Professor Frederic West, an American scientist
- Johann Urb as Sasha, a Russian pilot and Tamara's lover
- Blu Mankuma as Harry Helmsley, Adrian's father and Tony's musical partner
- George Segal as Tony Delgatto, an elderly traveling musician and Harry's musical partner
- Jimi Mistry as Dr. Satnam Tsurutani, an Indian scientist who helps discover the events that are to come in India
- Stephen McHattie as Captain Michaels, the captain of the ark
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