Click here to copy URL

Knowing

5.4

28,041

Ratings

Add to lists

where to watch

Pro reviews

Links

Original title

Knowing

Year

2009

Running time

130 min.

Country

United States

Director

Alex Proyas

Screenwriter

Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden, Stiles White

Cast

Music

Marco Beltrami

Cinematography

Simon Duggan

Producer

Summit Entertainment, Escape Artists

Genre

Sci-Fi. Fantasy. Thriller | Disaster Film. Aliens. End of the World

Synopsis

In 1959, William Dawes Elementary School in Lexington, Massachusetts, comes up with the idea of burying a time capsule on the school grounds to be opened in 50 years time. Each of the students puts in a drawing of what they believe the future will look like. Young Lucinda Embry’s contribution is a page of numbers. In 2009, John Koestler is an astrophysics professor at MIT who is raising his son Caleb on his own after the death of his wife. John accompanies Caleb to the school for the opening of the time capsule. The piece of paper that Caleb pulls out happens to be Lucinda’s page of numbers. Afterwards, John puzzles over the numbers and then realizes that each numeric sequence contains the date of a disaster that occurred after the time capsule was buried and the exact number of people killed in it. John realizes that there are three disasters that have yet to happen. He is witness as a plane crashes nearby while he is caught in a traffic jam – and on the date and with exactly the number killed as predicted by Lucinda. He realizes that the other numbers are latitude and longitude of the area where the disasters occur. He contacts the late Lucinda’s daughter Diana Wayland and sets out to prevent the other disasters from occurring. But then the two of them realize that the final sequence means that all life on Earth is going to be extinguished by a solar flare from the sun.

NEW

About similar movies and series:

Similarity over 75%

Similarity between 60% and 75%

Similarity between 40% and 60%

Similarity below 40%

Similar Movies to Knowing

Awards: 2009: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): nominated to Best Science Fiction Film.

Show all

Critics' reviews

"The draggy, lurching two hours of 'Knowing' will make you long for the end of the world, even as you worry that there will not be time for all your questions to be answered."

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"Hokum is best served straight, not as a New Age cocktail with too many ingredients."

Kirk Honeycutt: The Hollywood Reporter
"[It] is among the best science-fiction films I've seen -- frightening, suspenseful, intelligent and, when it needs to be, rather awesome (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 4)"

Roger Ebert: rogerebert.com
"Absorbing and able to be taken seriously most of the way (...) Genre fans always looking for something new and awesome may feel like they’ve seen most of this before"

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"Absurdly jumbled plot. (...) If you're of a mind to believe a dreary and far-fetched thriller about numerology-crazed alien life forms, then you may find the movie mildly diverting. (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"

Claudia Puig: USA Today

Movie Soulmates' ratings: Register so you can access movie recommendations tailored to your movie taste.
Friends' ratings: Register so you can check out ratings by your friends, family members, and like-minded members of the FA community.

Ranking Lists Position

62 My Top 10 Movies from 2009 (60)

Is the synopsis/plot summary missing? Do you want to report a spoiler, error or omission? Please send us a message.
If you are not a registered user please send us an email to [email protected]

All copyrighted material (movie posters, DVD covers, stills, trailers) and trademarks belong to their respective producers and/or distributors.

For US ratings information please visit: www.mpaa.org www.filmratings.com www.parentalguide.org

Knowing

User history