DVD: The Day After Tomorrow - A World Storm Plunges Earth Into The Ice Age Again

Description: The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 American science fiction disaster film directed, co-produced, and co-written by Roland Emmerich. Based on the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, the film stars Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum, and Sela Ward. It depicts catastrophic climatic effects following the disruption of the North Atlantic Ocean circulation. A series of extreme weather events usher in global cooling and lead to a new ice age. DETAILED PLOT Jack Hall, an American paleoclimatologist, and his colleagues Frank and Jason, drill for ice-core samples in the Larsen Ice Shelf for the NOAA, when the ice shelf suddenly begins to split away. At a UN conference in New Delhi, Jack discusses his research showing that climate change could cause an ice age, but US Vice President Raymond Becker dismisses his concerns. Professor Terry Rapson, an oceanographer of the Hedland Centre in Scotland, befriends Jack over his views of an inevitable climate shift. When several buoys in the Atlantic Ocean show a severe ocean temperature drop, Rapson concludes Jack's theories are correct. Jack's and Rapson's teams, along with NASA meteorologist Janet Tokada, build a forecast model based on Jack's research. Jack tries to get Becker to consider evacuations in the Northern States, but Becker again refuses. A massive storm system develops in the northern hemisphere, splitting into three gigantic hurricane-like superstorms above Canada, Scotland, and Siberia. The storms pull frozen air from the upper troposphere into their center, flash-freezing anything caught in their eyes with temperatures below −150 degrees Fahrenheit (−101 degrees Celsius). It is confirmed by Jack that the force of the storm is so strong, and the effects are estimated to be so severe, that following the storm, the entire Northern Hemisphere would be in a new ice age. Meanwhile, the weather worsens across the world: Tokyo is struck by a giant hail storm, three helicopters sent to rescue the British Royal family from Balmoral Castle crash in Scotland after all their fuel lines and crew freeze after inadvertently flying into their superstorm's eye, and Los Angeles is devastated by a tornado outbreak. Following this, President Blake issues an executive order for the FAA to ground all air traffic across the country, but not before at least two planes crash due to severe turbulence. In New York City, Jack's son Sam, along with his friends Brian Parks and Laura Chapman, participate in an academic decathlon, where they meet a new friend JD. New York is soon caught in the North American storm and the weather becomes progressively more violent, resulting in street flooding, and eventually a massive tsunami-like storm surge inundating Manhattan. This forces Sam's group to seek shelter at the New York Public Library, but not before Laura accidentally cuts her leg. While cellphone communications are down, Sam is able to contact Jack and his mother Lucy, a physician, through a working payphone; Jack advises him to stay inside and promises to rescue him. Rapson and his team perish in the European storm, while Lucy remains in a hospital caring for bed-ridden children, where she and her patients are eventually rescued by the authorities. Upon Jack's suggestion, Blake orders the southern states to be evacuated into Mexico; the northern half is doomed to be hit by the superstorm but are warned by the government to seek shelter and stay warm. The Mexicans initially close the border, but reopen it after Blake agrees to cancel all Central and Latin American debt to the USA. With the storm having reached Washington, Blake perishes after his motorcade is caught in it, making Becker the new President. Jack, Jason, and Frank make their way to New York against all odds. In Pennsylvania, Frank falls through the skylight of a mall that had become covered in snow, and sacrifices himself by cutting his rope to prevent his friends from falling in after him. In the library, most survivors, as well as those from other structures, decide to head south once the floodwater outside freezes in spite of Sam's warnings, and are later found fatally frozen by Jack and Jason; only a few survivors end up heeding Sam's advice to stay put, burning books to stay warm as the temperatures plunge. Laura develops blood poisoning from her injury, whereupon Sam, Brian, and JD scour a Russian cargo vessel that had drifted into the city for penicillin, fending off a pack of wolves which had escaped from Central Park Zoo. The eye of the North American storm arrives, freezing Manhattan solid, but Sam's group make it inside just in time. Likewise, Jack and Jason take shelter in an abandoned restaurant. Days later, the superstorms dissipate as Jack and Jason successfully reach the library, finding Sam's group alive. Jack then sends a radio message to US forces in Mexico. Becker, in his first address as president from the US embassy in Mexico, apologizes on The Weather Channel for his ignorance, admits his mistake and sends helicopters to rescue survivors in the Northern States. Jack and Sam's group are picked up in Manhattan, where many people have survived. On the International Space Station, astronauts look down in awe at Earth's transformed surface, now with ice sheets extending across the northern hemisphere, and remarks that the "sky never looked so clear".

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Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted

Case Type: Tall/DVD Case

Former Rental: Yes

Rating: MA15+

Subtitle Language: English & English Captions For The Hearing Impaired

Custom Bundle: No

MPN: Multi Region Player Required To Play Outside Aust & NZ

Studio: 20th Century Fox

Format: DVD

Region Code: DVD: 4 (AU, NZ, Latin America...)

Release Year: 2004

Language: English

Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal & Dennis Quaid

Features: DISC 01 - Features (not Listed), Director & Producers Commentary, Production Designers Commentary, Co-writer & Editors Commentary, DISC 02 - 10 Deleted Scenes With Optional Commentary, The Politics Of Climate Change, Global Watch: Famous Icons From Around The World, City Freeze: Interactive Look At Climate Catastrophies, The Science Behind The Movie, Commentary + Behind The Scenes Featurette, Making Of The Movie Feature, Pre-production: Visualization, Concepts & Production, Storyboard & Concept Gallery, Production: The Eye Of The Storm & Filming It, Post Production: Pushing The Envelope & Visual Affects, Audio Anatomy: The Final Mix, 8 Interactive Demo Audio Tracks

Movie/TV Title: The Day After Tomorrow (2004 film)

Season: NA

DVD Edition Year: 2004

Music Artist: Harald Kloser

Sub-Genre: Disaster, Survival

Director: Roland Emmerich

Cinematic Movement: Arthouse/Independent

Modified Item: No

Edition: Widescreen, Dolby Digital, Definitive Edition

Type: Movie

Genre: Action, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States