TY - ADVS AU - Black,Todd AU - Pearson,Ryne Douglas AU - Snowden,Juliet AU - White,Stiles AU - Proyas,Alex AU - Cage,Nicolas AU - Byrne,Rose AU - Canterbury,Chandler AU - Robinson,Lara AU - Mendelsohn,Ben ED - Escape Artists (Firm) ED - Mystery Clock Cinema (Firm) ED - Summit Entertainment. TI - Knowing AV - PN1997.2 .K56 2009 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Universal City, Calif, PB - Summit Entertainment KW - Time capsules KW - United States KW - Drama KW - Prophecies KW - Disasters KW - College teachers KW - Fathers and sons KW - Thrillers (Motion pictures) KW - Action and adventure films KW - Films for the hearing impaired KW - Feature films KW - Science fiction films KW - gsafd KW - Fantasy films N1 - Widescreen; Special features: Audio commentary with director Alex Proyas; Knowing all: the making of a futuristic thriller; Visions of the apocalypse; Director of photography, Simon Duggan ; editor, Richard Learoyd ; music, Marco Beltrami ; costume designer, Terry Ryan ; production designer, Steven Jones-Evans; Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Lara Robinson, Ben Mendelsohn; MPAA rating: PG-13; for disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language N2 - In 1959, 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. 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 capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is Caleb's father, professor John Koestler, 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. With the reluctant help of the daughter of the now- deceased author of the prophecies, John's increasingly desperate efforts take him on a race against time until he finds himself facing the ultimate disaster and the ultimate sacrifice ER -