Knowing (2009) - DVD - Wide Screen

Nicolas Cage stars in this largely unsatisfying science-fiction tale that begins as a taut and spooky story concerning psychic legacies and ends up falling back on Steven Spielberg's old, cosmic playbook for default explanations about weird phenomena. Cage stars as astrophysicist and widower John Koestler, whose young son attends a school where a 50-year-old time capsule is dug up and opened. Koestler's son, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), is given an envelope from the capsule containing a sheet of paper inscribed with seemingly-random numbers. Koestler interprets groupings of the numbers as prophesies (made in 1959) of disasters leading up to a globally catastrophic event late in 2009. Moreover, some of the later tragedies involve him or members of his family, suggesting the paper was meant to fall into his and Caleb's hands. That’s not the only freaky thing drawing father and son in a direction they really don't want to go. Among other things, a quartet of mute strangers keeps showing up with a powerful interest in Caleb's whereabouts, and the daughter and granddaughter of the little girl who originally scribbled those numbers in 1959 are under the shadow of a separate prediction of doom. Everything goes swimmingly until it's time for director Alex Proyas (The Crow) to begin tying up all the strings, and cliches start falling like rain. On the plus side, Knowing includes a couple of breathtaking scenes of calamity, the most horrifying (and realistic) of which is a jet crash the likes of which has never been committed to film.

SCENE INDEX

Disc #1 -- Knowing
1. 50 Years Ago [8:34]
2. Together Forever [6:44]
3. Opening the Time Capsule [5:07]
4. Researching the Numbers [8:38]
5. Lucinda Embry [7:45]
6. Latitude Longitude [6:24]
7. It's Not Coincidence [5:47]
8. We Didn't Meet by Accident [7:04]
9. Get Off the Subway [6:20]
10. The Day I Die [2:35]
11. Everyone Else [3:05]
12. A Warning for Everyone [8:05]
13. The Numbers Are the Key [6:40]
14. This Is Not a Test [7:16]
15. Following the Stones [5:26]
16. They've Chosen You [5:25]
17. This Isn't the End [9:22]
18. End Credits [5:24]

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