2012

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• Genre: Action/Adventure, Drama, SciFi/Fantasy
• Release Date: 2009-11-13 Nationwide
• Running Time: 158 min.
• Director: Roland Emmerich
• Cast: John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Thandie Newton, Woody Harrelson, Danny Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt, Chin Han, Beatrice Rosen, Jimi Mistry
• Producer: Roland Emmerich
• Writer: Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser
• Distributor: Sony Pictures/Columbia
• Official Site: 2012 Official Site

Completing his multi-film vendetta against the world's tourist trade, German-born director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow) sends the mother of all storms to level the Washington Monument, the Eiffel Tower, and a priest-filled Vatican City in his newest end-times thriller, 2012. A planetary realignment and overstimulated sun are the villains in a scenario that a real-life seventh-century Mayan prophet is said to have predicted: Life on Earth will end on December 12, 2012. Plan your Christmas shopping accordingly. "It’s kind of galling when you realize the nutbags with the cardboard signs had it right all along," declares Carl Anheuser (Oliver Platt), chief of staff to the president (Danny Glover). Anheuser has been planning for the final day since 2009, when a government scientist thrust a red-alert report into his hands, leading the world's superpowers to secretly build six giant "arks" designed to save the rich, the powerful, and the mostly white from Armageddon. Launch site: China! In a ridiculous but bravura sequence, Jackson Curtis (John Cusack), a failed sci-fi novelist/limo driver, begins his long, convoluted journey to China by dodging crumbling L.A. freeways and falling skyscrapers while his family screams in the backseat. 2012 is overstuffed with special effects, but the Curtis clan's mad dash out of town is the closest the movie gets to actual fun, if only because it’s easier to relate to a man navigating bad traffic than one trying to outrun a volcano.