MOVIE SUMMARY

Written By : Fajar

Tittle Genre Distributor

: 2012 : Action, Adventure : Columbia Pictures - Sony Pictures

Release Date : November 13, 2009 Starring : Thandie Newton, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Oliver Platt Directed by : Roland Emmerich Produced by : Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser Written by Synopsis : Roland Emmerich, Harald Kloser : Never before has a date in history been so significant to so many cultures, so many religions, scientists, and governments. 2012 is an epic adventure about a global cataclysm that brings an end to the world and tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors.

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Resume

: Jackson Curtis (John Cusack) is a divorced father who occasionally works as a limousine

driver and a writer, while his ex-wife Kate Curtis (Amanda Peet) and children live together with her new boyfriend. In Guatemala reports start coming in of mass suicides in the Mayan jungles of people attempting to avoid the impending apocalypse. The IHC (Institute for Human Continuity), a secret organization, has realized the situation and begins constructing vast arks beneath the Himalayan mountains designed to withstand most natural disasters in order to save both humanity, significant species, and the greatest treasures of mankind for when doomsday finally happens. There are arguments however about how and when the governments of the world will alert their fellow citizens and even discussions about how the remaining survivors will be selected to survive Armageddon. When they discover that the global cataclysm is happening much faster than expected, they must race to these ships to save the human race before all is lost. Meanwhile on a day trip to Yellowstone with his two young children, Jackson meets Charlie Frost, who hosts his own radio segment and blog about his belief that the Mayans are correct about 2012. Over the coming days vast cracks are found within the fault lines in California, and despite the pleas from the government that everything is fine, Jackson isn't convinced. Hiring a private plane and gathering crucial supplies he races to his ex-wife's L.A. home to save himself and his family from the Earth's crust displacement occurring all around them. After a long and dangerous race through the collapsing streets of LA to get to Santa Monica Airport, Kate's new boyfriend Gordon uses his pilot skills to get the family to safety as the runway crumbles beneath them. After they take off, they fly dangerously through Los Angeles as the entire city crumbles into oblivion around them. As they look back the entire cityscape of Los Angeles has already started to crumble into the Pacific. It soon becomes clear that it's not just Los Angeles that's experiencing disaster, the Yellowstone Supervolcano erupts, Las Vegas is destroyed by a massive chasm that cuts through the city and an ash cloud from the Yellowstone eruption, more massive earthquakes occur in South America (one of which destroys the city of Rio de Janeiro). Washington, D.C. is flooded by an enormous tsunami which crushes the White House, and The Vatican in Rome crumbles into oblivion, destroying thousand-year old Catholic architecture and killing thousands of worshipers within seconds. As massive tidal waves began to sweep across the Earth (even at one point beginning to climb over the Himalayas), the U.S. government declares the end of the world. A group of survivors, including Jackson Curtis and his family must fight their way to China before they can board the great arks and save themselves from the gigantic tidal waves flooding the Earth.
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ACCOLADES Award Category Recipients and nominees

Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Mike Vzina

Outcome

Broadcast Film Critics Best Visual Effects Association Awards

Nominated

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Image Awards Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Nominated

Danny Glover

Nominated

Best Sound Editing Music in a Feature Fernand Bos, Ronald J. Webb Film Motion Picture Sound Editors Best Sound Editing Sound Effects and Fernand Bos, Ronald J. Webb Foley in a Feature Film

Nominated

Nominated

Best Sound (Mixing and Editing)

Paul N.J. Ottosson, Michael McGee, Rick Kline, Jeffrey J. Haboush, Michael Keller

Won

Best Visual Effects Satellite Awards Best Art Direction and Production Design

Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Mike Vzina

Won

Barry Chusid, Elizabeth Wilcox

Nominated

Best Film Editing

David Brenner, Peter S. Elliot

Nominated

Best Action/Adventure/Thriller Film Saturn Awards Best Special Effects

2012

Nominated

Volker Engel, Marc Weigert, Mike Vzina

Nominated

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CAST

John Cusack as Jackson Curtis, a struggling writer who has to work as a limousine driver to make ends meet. Chiwetel Ejiofor as Dr. Adrian Helmsley, geologist and scientific advisor to the US President. He is also a fan of Curtis' work. Amanda Peet as Kate Curtis, a medical student and Jackson's ex-wife. Liam James as Noah Curtis, Jackson and Kate's son. Morgan Lily as Lilly Curtis, Jackson and Kate's daughter. Thomas McCarthy as Dr. Gordon Silberman, Kate's current boyfriend, a plastic surgeon. Danny Glover as Thomas Wilson, the President of the United States. Thandie Newton as Dr. Laura Wilson, art expert and President Wilson's daughter. Oliver Platt as Carl Anheuser, the President's Chief of Staff. Woody Harrelson as Charlie Frost, a fringe science conspiracy theorist and radio talk show host. John Billingsley as Professor Frederick West, a scientist and colleague of Dr. Adrian Helmsley. Ryan McDonald as Scotty, an assistant of Dr. Adrian Helmsley and Professor Frederick West Jimi Mistry as Dr. Satnam Tsurutani, an astrophysicist Osric Chau as Nima Tseng Chang as Grandfather Sonam Lisa Lu as Grandmother Sonam Zlatko Buri as Yuri Karpov, a Russian billionaire Beatrice Rosen as Tamara, girlfriend of Yuri Alexandre and Philippe Haussmann as Alec and Oleg Karpov, Yuri's twin sons Johann Urb as Sasha Blu Mankuma as Harry Helmsley, Adrian's father who is Tony's singing partner. George Segal as Tony Delgotto, a jazz singer who is Harry's partner. Stephen McHattie as Captain Michaels, the captain of Ark 4. Patrick Bauchau as Roland Picard, the Director of the Louvre who is killed in a car bomb by the US Government Henry O as Lama Rinpoche, a Buddhist monk

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REFRENCE http://www.cinemablend.com/2012-3464.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190080/plotsummary http://entertainment.oneindia.in/hollywood/movies/2012/story.html

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