The Day After Tomorrow Director: Roland Emmerich Cast: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum
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- DVD Release Date: 06/05/2007
- Original Release: 2004
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Closed Caption; Disc One: Full-length audio commentary by director/co-writer Roland Emmerich and producer Mark Gordon; Full-length audio commentar by co-writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff, director of photography Ueli Steiger, editor David Brenner and production designer Barry Chusid; Disc Two: "Two Kings and a Scribe: A Filmmaking Conversation" behind-the-scenes documentary ; "The Force of Destiny: The Sciene and Politics of Climate Change" documentary; 10 deleted scenes with optional commentary by director/co-writer Roland Emmerich and producer Mark Godon; 2 pre-production featurettes; 3 pos-production featurettes; Interactive audio demo; Storyboard and concept art galleries; Theatrical teaser and trailers
Full Product DetailsScene Index
Disc #1 -- Day After Tomorrow
1. Main Titles [:25]
2. Giving Way [2:41]
3. U.N. Conference [3:08]
4. A Big Drop [3:00]
5. Old Wounds [1:29]
6. A Bumpy Ride [1:17]
7. Bad Omens [3:38]
8. The Decathlon [2:43]
9. Too Fast [:11]
10. L.A. [2:08]
11. Worst Case Scenario [1:55]
12. Mountain of Data [1:31]
13. New York City [1:44]
14. Wall of Water [5:24]
15. The New Ice Age [2:41]
16. Contact [4:21]
17. Presidential Briefing [3:07]
18. A Toast [:41]
19. Life or Death [5:52]
20. North and South [:57]
21. Hard Choices [2:09]
22. Warming Up [2:57]
23. A Good Friend Gone [2:32]
24. The Age of Reason [6:14]
25. Passing the Torch [1:46]
26. The View From Space [1:35]
27. Aboard the Ship [1:47]
28. Eye of the Storm [3:16]
29. Promises to Keep [:44]
30. The Last Mile [1:29]
31. Moving Forward [4:06]
32. End Titles [2:14]
Editorial Reviews
The science behind this one may be a little shaky -- the possibility of a new Ice Age sweeping the planet overnight is pretty remote. But once you can get past the basic implausibility of the premise, you'll find that The Day After Tomorrow is, well, one of the coolest pictures to come along in quite a while. It's really a throwback to those great Irwin Allen disaster movies of the '60s and '70s. Allen's 1961 Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, for example, took the opposite tack and posited that Earth's atmosphere could catch fire overnight. You take a group of people with disparate backgrounds, interests, and agendas; throw them together in a life-threatening situation caused by Mother Nature; and see how many of them survive to discover a means of reversing (or escaping) the effects of the calamity. In this case, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid), having foretold the possibility of global warming suddenly triggering a new Ice Age, gets no satisfaction from seeing his prediction come true -- because his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal) is trapped in New York City, which has already been swamped by a tidal wave and essentially frozen solid. As the planetary freezing moves southward, Jack heads northward to rescue Sam and others that may have survived. Director Roland Emmerich, no stranger to such apocalyptic goings-on, marshals assistance from his art director, cinematographer, and special-effects team to make this frigid farrago convincing, and it's to his credit that he succeeds admirably. Formulaic plotting and stereotypical characters aside, The Day After Tomorrow, like Jack Hill himself, plots a course and doggedly pursues it to a successful conclusion. Although the submersion of Manhattan by tidal wave was done fairly convincingly in 1933's Deluge, that film's visuals don't begin to compare to the digital magic conjured up by Emmerich's special-effects sorcerers. There probably isn't a viewer on the planet -- in hot or cold climes -- that won't feel a chill up his or her spine when the Statue of Liberty is swept under by a monster tsunami. Quaid and Gyllenhaal are appropriately stolid in their roles and more than adequately supported by Ian Holm, Sela Ward, Jay O. Sanders, and others. Relative newcomer Emmy Rossum makes a strong showing as Jake's plucky companion and (if she lives through the ordeal) probable girlfriend. Providing old-fashioned thrills served up with new-fangled technology, The Day After Tomorrow makes an ideal "popcorn movie," and one that will certainly stand the test of time with repeat viewings. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble
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