Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in KNOWING, a gripping action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future and sets out to prevent them from coming true.
In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures of what they think the future will look like. Their drawings will be sealed into a time capsule and stored for 50 years. But one mysterious girl fills her paper with rows of apparently random numbers, which she says are being whispered to her by unseen people.
50 years later, a new generation of students examines the capsules contents and the girls cryptic message ends up in the hands of young Caleb Koestler (Chandler Canterbury), but it is Calebs' father, astrophysics professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), who makes a startling discovery: the encoded message predicts the dates and death tolls of every major disaster of the past 50 years with pinpoint accuracy. As he further unravels the documents secrets, John discovers that it foretells three additional catastrophes, the last of which hints at destruction on a global scale.
When John's attempt to alert the authorities fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place.His fears intensify with the realization that his son, Caleb is somehow connected to the mystery. With the relunctant help of of Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne) and Abby Wayland (Lara Robinson), the daughter and granddaughter of the prophetic messages author, he embarks on a heart-pounding race against time to prevent the ultimate disaster - and the ultimate sacrifice.
Knowing is an edge-of-the-seat psychological thriller with special effects that are going to blow your mind. However, if you look beyond, it's really more than that. What I also see, is the love of parents: How far would you go to protect your loved ones. This is a movie like an emotional rollercoaster that leaves u guessing at every turn.
Movies with apocalyptic themes are particularly resonant with audiences because of the environmental issues the world is dealing with. The film makers hope that this movie would be the kind that audiences still talk about long after they leave the cinema.
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