Knowing (film)
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| Directed by | Alex Proyas |
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| Story by | Ryne Douglas Pearson |
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| Music by | Marco Beltrami |
| Cinematography | Simon Duggan |
| Edited by | Richard Learoyd |
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| Distributed by | Summit Entertainment |
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121 minutes |
| Country | United States United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $50 million |
| Box office | $187.9 million |
| Knowing: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack | |
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| Soundtrack album by Marco Beltrami | |
| Released | March 24, 2009 |
| Genre | Film score |
| Length | 65:39 |
| Label | Varèse Sarabande |
Knowing is a 2009 science fiction thriller directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage. The project was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists. Production was financially backed by Summit Entertainment. Knowing was filmed in Docklands Studios Melbourne, Australia, using various locations to represent the film's Boston-area setting.
The film was released on March 20, 2009, in the United States. The DVD and Blu-ray media were released on July 7, 2009. Knowing met with mixed reviews, with praise for the acting performances, visual style and atmosphere, but criticism over some implausibilities.
In 1959, student Lucinda Embry (Lara Robinson) hears whispers as she stares at the Sun. When her class is chosen to contribute to the school's time capsule, each child is asked to draw what they believe the future will look like. Lucinda writes a page of seemingly random numbers and adds it to her elementary (primary) school's time capsule, which is set to be opened in 50 years. Lucinda's teacher, Miss Taylor (Danielle Carter), calls for the pupils to finish but Lucinda continues until her teacher takes the page off her desk unfinished. Lucinda then goes missing after the time capsule is dedicated, and is found by her teacher in a utility closet scratching numbers into the door with her fingernails bleeding.
In 2009, Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury) is a pupil at the same elementary school. When the time capsule is opened, Caleb is supposed to read and write about some of the capsule's contents. He's given the page of numbers written by Lucinda. His widowed father John (Nicolas Cage), a professor of astrophysics at MIT, notices the numbers have a specific set of sequences, with some digits referring to the dates and death tolls of major disasters over the last 50 years, including 911012996, apparently representing the date ("9/11/01", in m/d/yy format) and death toll ("2996") of the 9/11 attacks. The last three sets of digits on the page are dated in the immediate future.
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