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Category: Action
All Genres: Action, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Release Year: 2009
Country: USA, UK
Runtime: 121
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Alex Proyas
Sound: DTS, Dolby Digital
Taglines:

Knowing is Everything...

What Happens When The Numbers Run Out?

Writing by: Ryne Douglas Pearson - (screenplay) and
Juliet Snowden - (screenplay) &
Stiles White - (screenplay)
Ryne Douglas Pearson - (story)

Produced by: David Alper - executive producer
Todd Black - producer
David J. Bloomfield - executive producer (as David Bloomfield)
Jason Blumenthal - producer
Topher Dow - executive producer
Norman Golightly - executive producer (as Norm Golightly)
Stephen Jones - executive producer
Aaron Kaplan - co-executive producer
Ryne Douglas Pearson - co-producer
Sean Perrone - co-executive producer
Alex Proyas - producer
Steve Tisch - producer

Cast: Nicolas Cage - John Koestler
Chandler Canterbury - Caleb Koestler
Rose Byrne - Diana
Lara Robinson - Abby / Lucinda
D.G. Maloney - The Stranger
Nadia Townsend - Grace
Alan Hopgood - Reverend Koestler
Adrienne Pickering - Allison
Joshua Long - Younger Caleb
Danielle Carter - Miss Taylor (1959)
Alethea McGrath - Miss Taylor (2009)

Music: Marco Beltrami
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Plot Outline: A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.
Plot: In the fall of 1959, for a time capsule, students draw pictures of life as they imagine it will be in 50 years. Lucinda, an odd child who hears voices, swiftly writes a long string of numbers. In 2009, the capsule is opened; student Caleb Koestler gets Lucinda's "drawing" and his father John, an astrophysicist and grieving widower, takes a look. He discovers dates of disasters over the past 50 years with the number who died. Three dates remain, all coming soon. He investigates, learns of Lucinda, and looks for her family. He fears for his son, who's started to hear voices and who is visited by a silent stranger who shows him a vision of fire and destruction. What's going on?

Movie Quotes: [from trailer]
Diana Whelan: What happens when the numbers run out?

Crazy Credits: We know about 2 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
In the beginning of the movie the camera view changes from the Walt Disney "Castle" to the stars and the Castle gets dark and changes the silhouette of the "Witch Mountain"

Goofs: We know about 48 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Continuity: When John erases his son's homework from the dry-erase board so that he can write down the numbers, he leaves some of his son's vocabulary/spelling words on the lower portion of the board. Each time we see the board after that, the first vocabulary word varies as to how much of the word remains after the erasing.

Trivia: There are 13 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Richard Kelly was originally set to write and direct the project.
The perceptual phenomenon of people looking for patterns in randomness (number strings, faces in trees, shapes in clouds etc.) is called Pareidolia.
The piece of classical music we hear at the start and again at the very end of the film is Ludwig van Beethoven's "7th Symphony Major, 2nd Movement - Allegretto in A Minor". Completed in 1812 and dedicated to his friend Count Moritz von Fries, the work premiered in Vienna at a charity concert for soldiers wounded in the Battle of Hanau and was encored.