Knowing

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  • Opened March 20, 2009 
  • 1 hr 55 min
  • PG-13 | disaster sequences, disturbing images and brief strong language

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 13+. More on child suitability

  • Academy Award® Winner Nicolas Cage (National Treasure: Book of Secrets, Leaving Las Vegas) stars in KNOWING, a gripping 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. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Nicolas Cage, Rose Byrne, Chandler Canterbury, Ben Mendelsohn, Lara Robinson
  • Director: Alex Proyas
  • Genres: Suspense/Thriller

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Great story and actors

by winkandwink

Great story, I watched through it without stop and would like to watch it with my family again. great actors too. I wonder how could I missed this movie when it was showing in the theater ....

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Chicago Sun-Times
| Roger Ebert

Knowing is among the best science-fiction films I've seen -- frightening, suspenseful, intelligent and, when it needs to be, rather awesome. Read full review

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Until it jumps the tracks into self-righteousness, though, Knowing, directed by Alex Proyas, can also be as unnerving as the best episodes of "The Twilight Zone." Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

Knowing has about a half-dozen screenwriter credits, which may explain why scenes crash up against one another - smart, stupid, far-fetched, compelling. And the trouble is that Cage walks (or runs) through them all, treating each with the same level of intensely goofy seriousness. Read full review

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ReelViews
| James Berardinelli

Science fiction fans will feel gypped, disaster movie fans will appreciate about 10 minutes of screen time and be bored by the rest, and no one else will care. Read full review

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A scene from "Knowing."