Knowing (film)

Knowing is a 2009 science fiction thriller film about a teacher who chances upon an encrypted code in a time capsule that makes him believe he can alter the chain of events that are about to unfold.
 * Directed by Alex Proyas. Written by Ryne Douglas Pearson, Juliet Snowden and Stiles White.

Knowing is Everything... (taglines)

John Koestler

 * EE doesn't stand for just 1 person.
 * I am the son of a pastor.
 * I keep seeing their faces... burning.
 * The caves won't save us! Nothing can!

Other

 * Miss Taylor: [first lines] Everyone inside now!
 * Phil Bergman: Right now my scientific mind is telling me to have nothing more to do with this. And yours should, too.
 * Diana Wayland: They've taken the children! We have to save the children!

Dialogue

 * John Koestler: I found evidence of a series of super-flares from a star in the outer-Pleiades's region.
 * Phil Bergman: Right. Ratings were off the chart.
 * John Koestler: We were both wrong. The numbers are a warning, but not just to me or any random group. They're a warning to everyone.
 * Phil Bergman: Okay. You're officially scaring the shit out of me right now.
 * John Koestler: The super-flare, in our own solar system. A 100 microtesla wave of radiation that would destroy our ozone layer, killing every living organism on the planet.
 * Phil Bergman: We have to let everyone know. We have to call the NOAA.
 * John Koestler: They already know. The announcement will come anytime now. I thought there was some purpose to all this. Why did I get this prediction if there's nothing I can do about it? How am I supposed to stop the end of the world?


 * Caleb Koestler: I can't consume that. I've decided to become a vegetarian.
 * John Koestler: Well, when were you planning on telling the guy who buys the groceries around here?
 * Caleb Koestler: Are you deaf? I just told you now, Dad.


 * John Koestler: I'm not saying that 81 people are going to die tomorrow, okay? I'm just trying to understand why THIS is SAYING they will!
 * Phil Bergman: Okay, it's spooky, all right? I'll grant you. It's more than spooky. But just step back, all right? You have all these uncircled numbers with no sequence to them. I mean, numerology, kabbalah, pythagorean cults, there are systems that find meaning in numbers, and they are a dime a dozen. Why? Because people see what they want to see in them.

Taglines

 * Knowing is Everything...
 * What Happens When The Numbers Run Out?
 * A Superbly Crafted Thriller.

Cast

 * Nicolas Cage – Professor Jonathan "John" Koestler
 * Rose Byrne – Diana Wayland / Lucinda Embry (photograph)
 * Chandler Canterbury – Caleb Koestler
 * Joshua Long – Young Caleb
 * Lara Robinson – Young Lucinda Embry / Abby Wayland / Young Diana Wayland (photograph)
 * Nadia Townsend – Grace Koestler
 * Ben Mendelsohn – Professor Phil Beckman
 * Alan Hopgood – Reverend Koestler
 * Benita Collings – Mrs. Koestler
 * Adrienne Pickering – Allison Koestler
 * Liam Hemsworth – Spencer
 * Ra Chapman – Jessica