The Day After Tomorrow
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| Directed by | Roland Emmerich |
| Produced by | Roland Emmerich Mark Gordon |
| Screenplay by | Roland Emmerich |
| Story by | Roland Emmerich Jeffrey Nachmanoff |
| Based on |
The Coming Global Superstorm 1999 novel by Art Bell Whitley Strieber |
| Starring |
Dennis Quaid Jake Gyllenhaal Ian Holm Emmy Rossum Sela Ward |
| Music by | Harald Kloser |
| Cinematography | Ueli Steiger |
| Edited by | David Brenner |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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124 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $125 million |
| Box office | $544.3 million |
The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American climate science fiction disaster film co-written, directed, and produced by Roland Emmerich and starring Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and Sela Ward. The film depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice age. Filmed in Toronto and Montreal, it is the highest-grossing Hollywood film made in Canada (adjusted for inflation).
Originally planned for release in the summer of 2003, The Day After Tomorrow opened in Mexico City on May 17, 2004, and was released worldwide from May 26 to May 28 (except in South Korea and Japan, where it was released on June 4 and 5). A major commercial success, the film became the sixth highest-grossing film of 2004 despite receiving mixed reviews upon release.
Paleoclimatologist Jack Hall and his colleagues, Frank and Jason, are drilling for ice-core samples on the Larsen Ice Shelf for NOAA when the shelf breaks apart. When Jack later presents his findings on global warming at a United Nations conference in New Delhi, he fails to convince diplomats or US Vice President Raymond Becker. However, Professor Terry Rapson of the Hedland Climate Research Centre in Scotland believes in Jack's theories. Shortly after, several buoys in the North Atlantic simultaneously register a sharp drop in ocean temperature, and Rapson concludes that melting polar ice has begun to disrupt the North Atlantic Current. He contacts Jack, whose paleoclimatologic weather model demonstrates how climate changes caused the first ice age. His team, including NASA meteorologist Janet Tokada, builds a forecast model based on Jack's findings.
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