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The Knowing
Amanda Brown (Staff Writer)
The Knowing is an action-thriller of global proportions about a professor who stumbles on terrifying predictions about the future and sets out to prevent them from coming true. In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. But one mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsules 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 (Nicolas Cage), 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 John further unravels the documents chilling secrets, he realizes the document foretells three additional events, the last which hints destruction on a global scale and seems to somehow involve John and his son. When John'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 help of Diana Wayland and Abby, the daughter and granddaughter of the now-deceased author of the prophecies, John'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.
