Knowing

2009 · 121 min · EN · PG-13 · 6.3 (6,045 votes)

Dir. Alex Proyas · Starring Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, Nadia Townsend, Terry Camilleri · Music Marco Beltrami

“What happens when the numbers run out?”

Science FictionThriller

A teacher opens a time capsule that has been dug up at his son's elementary school; in it are some chilling predictions -- some that have already occurred and others that are about to -- that lead him to believe his family plays a role in the events that are about to unfold.

VIBE

Knowing plunges you into a relentless, dread-soaked spiral of cosmic mystery and impending doom. It’s a propulsive journey through existential terror, blending intellectual puzzles with a father's desperate fight against an unstoppable fate. The atmosphere is bleak, the stakes are ultimate, and the feeling is one of profound, unsettling inevitability.

ominousdread-soakeddesperatesuspensefulapocalypticmelancholicpropulsivehigh-concept sci-fidisaster thrillerconspiracy-drivenvisually bleakfate vs. free willexistential dreadgriefparental protectionhumanity's future

▶ Stream on YouTube TV, MovieSphere+ Amazon Channel, Howdy Amazon Channel

cataclysmmelancholycodealientime capsuleend of the worldastrophysicistgrieving widowerlexington massachusettswestford massachusettspredictionresearchernumbersnewsreflectivesuspensefulawestruckominous