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Plot summary
In the year 1959, a frightened and disturbed little girl named Lucinda was in school when her class was drawing up pictures for the school's time capsule, but Lucinda drew up a weird system of numbers and even was scratching at the school janitor's door. Now, 50 years later, John Koestler an astronomer and a professor at MIT is at his son, Caleb's school to open up the time capsule and was given Lucinda's system of numbers. When John was looking at the numbers, he quickly realized that it was some type of code that predicted the month, date and year of a specific disaster, and how many people died in that particular disaster. After witnessing a plane crash at Logan International Airport, and saving people from a freak New York Subway accident, John realizes that the last disaster on the code is the end of the world when one of the Sun's solar flares will scorch the Earth. Meanwhile, Caleb witnesses strange people who stalk him, and a little girl named Abby and her mother named Diana. Now, John and his son Caleb along with Abby and Diana must save as many people as they can from the Sun's solar flares while trying to find out about the strange people.
Cast
- David Lennieas Principal Clark (1959)
- D.G. Maloneyas The Stranger
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Knowing (2009)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The plane crash in Knowing, shown mostly in one take, was filmed on the Geelong Ring Road, a nearly finished freeway outside Melbourne, mixing practical effects and pieces of a real plane with computer-generated elements.
- Global Findability sued Summit Entertainment and Escape Artists on November 25, 2009, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, claiming the film used a geospatial entity object code that infringed its patent; the case was dismissed on January 10, 2011.
- The artificial rain on the shoot forced the crew to use a new gel for the flames so the fires would not be put out, plus semi-permanent make-up that could survive the long shooting hours.
- Alex Proyas shot a continuous two-minute scene in which Nicolas Cage's character sees a plane crash and tries to rescue passengers; the scene took two days to set up and two days to shoot.
- The film is set in Lexington and the nearby Massachusetts cities of Cambridge and Boston, but it was shot in Australia, where director Alex Proyas resides.
- Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 Allegretto is used in the film's final Boston disaster scene, played without any accompanying sound effects.
