The Day After Tomorrow

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The Day After Tomorrow

PG-13

2004

2h 3m

Action

Adventure

Mystery & Thriller

Sci-Fi

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After climatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by U.N. officials when presenting his environmental concerns, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world; trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel by foot from Philadelphia, braving the elements, to get to Sam before it's too late.

Critics Consensus

The Day After Tomorrow is a ludicrous popcorn thriller filled with clunky dialogue, but spectacular visuals save it from being a total disaster.

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Matthew Rozsa

Salon.com

05/24/2023

3.5/4

"The Day After Tomorrow" is the movie that changed my life.. Like a lawyer that tries to live up to the ideals of Elle Woods, I am a climate change journalist today because of the "The Day After Tomorrow."

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Will Self

London Evening Standard

01/09/2018

I don't think The Day After Tomorrow will pacify audiences as well as its predecessors, because even as disaster movies go, this one is a write-off.

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Nell Minow

Common Sense Media

12/28/2010

2/5

Some cool special effects...that's about it.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

Dec 22

3.5/5

The perfect movie for fans of this type of cinema and for those at home looking for a fast, furious, and both fatalistic and hopeful experience. [Full review in Spanish].

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Noah Berlatsky

Everything is Horrible (Substack)

05/05/2024

Its vision of climate disaster apocalypse feels at once overdramatic and overly optimistic.

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Danielle Solzman

Solzy at the Movies

01/03/2022

The Day After Tomorrow might be a popcorn thriller but the film depicts a horrifying future nevertheless.

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Brendan S

@Bsanmiguel 1d

While the movie has very unrealistic stuff, it is a fun movie to sit back and enjoy without getting too deep into it, and it is a personal guilty pleasure for me to watch.

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Charlotte J

@RT18111773 6d

I love this movie, can watch it multiple times

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Blake- N

@PBSAniDom May 23

The Day After Tomorrow is a solid disaster film that delivers exactly the kind of large-scale chaos and tension you would expect from the genre. It takes a dramatic scientific premise and turns it into an entertaining survival story. The idea of a paleoclimatologist racing to rescue his teenage son in New York City gives the movie a strong emotional center. That family angle helps ground the spectacle and makes the danger feel more personal. The film’s biggest strengths are its visuals, sense of scale, and nonstop atmosphere of crisis. The weather-driven destruction is memorable, and the movie keeps moving at a pace that makes it easy to stay invested. Overall, The Day After Tomorrow is not perfect, but it is very effective as a disaster movie. It is exciting, dramatic, and consistently watchable, and I would rate it a 7/10.

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Eli S.

@RandomMovieRankings May 6

Gave me chills and actually scared me a couple of times the stakes are pretty big I enjoyed this movie and i think it’s pretty good 7/10

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Carlos N

@Can545 Apr 18

A guilty pleasure. It gets better with age. As we learn more about the possibility of climate causing issues with the Earth, this is a possibility that could actually happen. The performances are good and I think the love interest, although predictable, is sweet. I’ve watched it at least ten times……and I still don’t know why I like it so much.

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Jovana M.

@J_loves_movies Apr 12

Rewatched countless times and probably will again in future! Great cast, special effects amazing. A must for doomsday movie fans

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Synopsis

After climatologist Jack Hall is largely ignored by U.N. officials when presenting his environmental concerns, his research proves true when a superstorm develops, setting off catastrophic natural disasters throughout the world; trying to get to his son, Sam, who is trapped in New York with his friend Laura and others, Jack and his crew must travel by foot from Philadelphia, braving the elements, to get to Sam before it's too late.

Director: Roland Emmerich
Producer: Mark Gordon
Screenwriter: Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Tomorrow Films, Centropolis Film Productions, Mark Gordon Productions
Rating: PG-13 (Intense Situations of Peril)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery & Thriller, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): May 28, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Aug 29, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA): $186.7M
Runtime: 2h 3m
Sound Mix: Surround, Dolby SR, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)