Cast:
Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Terry Camilleri,
Ben Mendelsohn,
Adrienne Pickering, Angie Diaz, Liam Hemsworth
Synopsis
Nicolas
Cage stars in Knowing, an action-thriller 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
is Caleb’s father, professor John Koestler 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 Ted 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 Ted and his
son.
When Ted’s attempts to alert the authorities fall on deaf
ears, he takes it
upon himself to try to prevent more destruction from taking place. With
the
reluctant help of Diana Wayland (Rose Byrne) and Abby Wayland, the
daughter and
granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies,
Ted’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.