Knowing (film)

Knowing is a 2009 science fiction thriller film directed by Alex Proyas and starring Nicolas Cage. The project was originally attached to a number of directors under Columbia Pictures, but it was placed in turnaround and eventually picked up by Escape Artists. Production was financially backed by Summit Entertainment. Knowing was filmed in Docklands Studios Melbourne, Australia, using various locations to represent the films Bostonarea setting.

In 1959, student Lucinda Embry Lara Robinson hears whispers as she stares at the sun. When her class is chosen to contribute to the schools time capsule, each child is asked to draw what they believe the future will look like. Lucinda writes a page of seemingly random numbers and adds it to her elementary schools time capsule, which is set to be opened in 50 years. Lucindas teacher calls for the pupils to finish but Lucinda continues before her teacher takes it off her desk unfinished. Lucinda then goes missing after the time capsule is dedicated, and is found by her teacher, Mrs. Taylor Danielle Carter, in a utility closet scratching numbers into the door with her fingernails bleeding.In 2009, Caleb Koestler Chandler Canterbury is a pupil at the same elementary school. When the time capsule is opened, Caleb is supposed to read and write about some of the capsules contents. Hes given the page of numbers written by Lucinda. His widowed father John Nicolas Cage, a professor of astrophysics at MIT, notices the numbers have a specific set of sequences referring to the times, number of deaths, and locations of fatal disasters over the last 50 years, including 911012996 the date and death toll of the 911 attacks. The last three sets of digits on the page are dated in the immediate future. ........

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