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Academy Award(R) Winner Nicolas Cage ("National Treasure") 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 1958, as part of the
dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is
asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one
mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random
numbers instead.
Fifty years later, a new generation of students
examines the capsule’s contents and the girl’s cryptic message ends up
in the hands of young Caleb Koestler. But it’s Caleb’s father,
professor John Koestler (Nicolas Cage), who makes the startling
discovery that the encoded message predicts with pinpoint accuracy the
dates, death tolls and coordinates of every major disaster of the past
50 years.
As John further unravels the document’s chilling secrets, he
realizes the document foretells three additional events - the last of
which hints at destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow
involve John and his son. When John’s attempts to alert authorities
fall on deaf ears, he takes it upon himself to try and prevent more
destruction from taking place.
With the reluctant help of Diana Wayland
and Abby Wayland, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased
author of the prophecies, John’s increasingly desperate efforts take
him on a heart-pounding race against time until he finds himself facing
the ultimate disaster - and the ultimate sacrifice.
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