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Knowing

Year:
Duration:
121 min
Genres:
Action | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
IMDB rate:
6.2
Director:
Alex Proyas
Awards:
1 win & 5 nominations
Details
Country: USA
Release Date: 2009-03-20
Filming Locations: Camberwell High School, Camberwell, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Earnings
Budget: $50,000,000
Opening Weekend: $24,604,751 (USA) (22 March 2009)
Gross: $79,948,113 (USA) (5 July 2009)
Cast
Actor
Character
Nicolas Cage
John Koestler
Chandler Canterbury
Caleb Koestler
Rose Byrne
Diana
Lara Robinson
Abby
D.G. Maloney
The Stranger
Nadia Townsend
Grace
Alan Hopgood
Reverend Koestler
Joshua Long
Younger Caleb
Danielle Carter
Miss Taylor (1959)
Alethea McGrath
Miss Taylor (2009)
David Lennie
Principal Clark (1959)
Tamara Donnellan
Lucinda's Mother
Travis Waite
Lucinda's Father
Ben Mendelsohn
Phil Beckman
Gareth Yuen
Donald
Lesley Anne Mitchell
Stacey
Liam Hemsworth
Spencer
Raymond Thomas
Teacher
Carolyn Shakespeare-Allen
Principal (2009)
Joanna Hunt-Prokhovnik
Carpool Mate #1
Jake Bradley
Boy
Jean-Michael Tan
Carpool Mate #2
Rody Claude
Patrolman
Nathaniel Kiwi
Paramedic
Blair Venn
Paramedic
Alyssa McClelland
Flight Attendant
Joseph Clements
FBI Agent
Susan Miller
Police Officer
Harli Ames
Man in Duffle Coat (as Harli Ammouchi)
Giovanni Bartuccio
Transit Officer
Menik Gooneratne
Woman with Baby
Chris McLean
Male Commuter
Marc Lawrence
Train Driver
Terry Camilleri
Cashier
Erin Klein
Jeep Driver
Angie Diaz
Reporter
Breanne Bergs
Reporter
Georgia Bolton
Reporter
Jo Buckley
Reporter
Archie Kirkland
Student
Sara Reed
Kid with Glasses
Ted Maynard
News Anchor
Anna Anderson
News Anchor
Kate Doherty
News Anchor
Tony Porter
News Anchor
Rob McPherson
News Anchor (as Rob MacPherson)
David Whiteley
Newscaster
Miles Paras
Newscaster
Clare Chihambakwe
Newscaster (as Claire Chihambakwe)
Michael C. Gwynne
Coast Patrol Official (as Michael Gwynne)
Markus Hamilton
Weatherman
Brendan Bacon
Man on Sidewalk
Joel Bow
Stranger
Maximillian Paul
Stranger
Karen Hadfield
Stranger
Matt Boesenberg
Traffic Cop (as Matthew Boesenberg)
Jim Knobeloch
Army General
Steve Mouzakis
Head Paramedic
Sonya Suares
Assistant Paramedic
Ra Chapman
Jessica
Benita Collings
John's Mother
Verity Charlton
Kim
Janet Foye
Lady on Train
Vincent Amorosi
Stranger (uncredited)
Vas Anagnos
Tourist Hero (uncredited)
Sally Anne Arnott
Rioter
Katelyn Cahill
Student
Leanne Campbell
Train Passanger (uncredited)
Naomi Davis
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Dianne Diep
Lab Assistant (uncredited)
Lisa N Edwards
Rioter
Victor Franko
Student
Nancy Guerriero
Female Commuter (uncredited)
Steven Haar
Rioter - Berd
Kristian Iaccino
Student
Robert Iannazzo
Train Passenger (uncredited)
George Iskander
Transit Officer
Gabriela Iturrizaga
Civilian (uncredited)
Raziel Jordan
Student
Jason Kirby
Student
Sarah Lawrence
New York Model (uncredited)
Mena Lovin
New York model (uncredited)
Andrew Lyons
Transit Officer
Clem Maloney
Rioter
Stefano Mazzeo
Student
Kate Mylius
Student
Lidia Onufrei
Business Woman (uncredited)
Vanessa Pitrau
Extra (uncredited)
Brett Robson
University Teacher #1 (uncredited)
Juliette Salom
Extra (uncredited)
Johnny Serret
Rioter
Gilbert Soto
Commuter (uncredited)
Nicole Joy Tan
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Clement Tang
Businessman (uncredited)
Joanna Theobalds
Train Passenger (uncredited)
Marsha Vassilevskaia
Student
Samuel R. Wright
Businessman (uncredited)
Did you know?
Trivia
At the end of the film, Caleb and Abby are seen running through a golden field toward a glowing tree, after being dropped off by the beings. The two kids could represent Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden with the Tree of Life. Also, the beings also resemble what angels are perceived to look like when they reveal their true form.
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WILHELM SCREAM: heard during the subway crash.
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at around 39 mins) The entire airplane crash, starting from when we see the plane till the end of the scene is one continuous shot.
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Goofs
(at around 1h 35 mins) When Diana is in the back of the ambulance, she is wearing a bra as the EMT's apply the defibrillator. In a real emergency, all clothing is cut from the victim's chest before being shocked, especially a bra that would likely contain metal hooks and under wire.
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(at around 39 mins) When the airliner crashes it wipes out the cars behind the first row, and cars are thrown about and chaos begins in the scene. When the camera follows the main character, you can see the shadows of people sitting in the first row of cars like nothing happening. The digital fire is easily seen covering up anything behind it.
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The latitudes and longitudes in Lucinda's letter do not specify whether they are North, South, East or West, but John assumes they are North and West. The numbers alone could each refer to any one of four spots in the world, but this vagueness is never addressed.
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Quotes
John Koestler: I found evidence of a series of super-flares from a star in the outer-Pleiades's region.
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John Koestler: I am the son of a pastor.
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Grace: [hugging John] I know there's something you're not telling me.
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Faq
Q
If Lucinda could hear the whisper people, why wasn't she saved?
A
Lucinda was driven crazy by the voices and surely understood what the numbers or whispering meant. Indeed, in her bedroom, John finds a wall covered of newspaper's snippets about a lot of disasters related to the numbers. She also understood that something really bad would occur on October 19th, but the reason why she wasn't saved is left unanswered. It probably had to do with the fact that she could not cope with knowing the world was going to end, so she killed herself before she could be saved. It can be speculated that Abby had a striking resemblance to Lucinda and perhaps this is to show that somehow Lucinda was 'saved' in the form of Abby. Also, Lucinda was a child in the 50's, so she was obviously a full grown adult by the time the world ends. As we see in the film, the aliens only save the children. So it's possible that Lucinda was simply a messenger the aliens hoped that perhaps somebody would figure out what the dates and predictions meant back when Lucinda wrote them. and possibly with the 50 years of advanced knowledge of the world ending, the human race could develope a way to prevent it. Unfortunately the predictions were buried in the time capsule and not discovered until just weeks before the world ended, so the aliens were forced to implement plan B.
Q
Since there were other spaceship leaving the earth, does that mean that the whisper people whispered the same numbers to other people around the world?
A
It's possible. Or maybe they sent different kinds of messages to different people. That's very possible since not as many people are as smart as John. They might not have figured out the messages from the numbers. There could have been all kinds of messages that were sent depending on the what the people recieving them were like.
Q
Is there an ancient document that predicts a doomsday date?
A
There are many theories surrounding the Mayan Long Count Calendar, a system of recording dates used by the Mayan people around 3000 BC. The Mayans were, for a great deal of human history, the most advanced astronomers and developers of systems for predicting eclipses and other events of cosmic significance that they recorded in various documents. In the late 20th century and onwards, many theories have been developed regarding the supposed "end date" of the Mayan Long Count Calendar. The current b'ak'tun "cycle", the 13th, ends on the 21st of December, 2012. The Mayans considered this a historic event, as the previous world (the third attempt, by that stage) was written off as a failure by their gods after its 13th b'ak'tun. Our current world was considered to be a success, and therefore humans were created in it (ca. 3000 BC). Making it into a 14th b'ak'tun was to be considered an additional sign that the universe was "correct", and would be cause for a great celebration, similar to 20th century celebrations of the Millenium. Mayan predictions for events continue into the future, either as a new 14th b'ak'tun or as a "distance date" from the end of the 13th b'ak'tun. Many New Age theories exist, however, that suppose the universe or world will come to an end in that date. These vary from a solar disaster, as in this movie, to a shift in the magnetic poles or rotational axis of the Earth, arrival of a rogue planet or brown dwarf, some sort of spiritual singularity, etc.
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Adrienne Pickering
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