The Day After Tomorrow

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The Day After Tomorrow is a 2004 film about a climatologist who tries to figure out a way to save the world from abrupt global warming. He must also get to his young son in New York, which is being taken over by a new Ice Age.

Written and directed by Roland Emmerich.
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[edit] Jack Hall

  • [When asked what will happen to civilization] Well, mankind survived the last Ice Age. We are certainly capable of surviving this one. The only question is, will we learn from our mistakes?

[edit] Vice President Raymond Becker

  • These past few days have left us all with a profound sense of humility in the face of nature's destructive power. For years, we operated under the belief that we could continue consuming our planet's natural resources, without consequence. We were wrong. I was wrong. The fact that my first address to you comes from a consulate on foreign soil is a testament to our changed reality. Not only Americans, but people all around the globe have become guests in the nations we once called 'the third world'. In our time of need they have taken us in and sheltered us, and I am deeply grateful for their hospitality. [...] For days now, we have despaired about the fate of the people who are trapped in the North. Today, there is cause for hope. Only a few hours ago, I received word that a small group of people survived in New York City, against all odds and in the face of tremendous adversity. I've ordered an immediate search-and-rescue mission to bring them home- and to look for more survivors.

[edit] Sam

  • This place is so retro! It might actually be cool if it were on purpose!
  • [After he sees on the news that two planes have crashed due to turbulence] So much for "one in a billion."
  • [As people begin to leave the library.] One second! The storm is gonna get bad! It's gonna get really, really bad! [They ignore him.] You're not gonna be able to survive in it! [Quietly] Believe me. [Begging] Sir, please just stay. Just stay. Just don’t… don't… [He finally gives up as they keep pushing past him]
  • More books! More books!

[edit] Terry Rapson

  • [They're snowed in at Headland] Luckily we've got our own genny, and enough tea and biscuits to sink a ship. Oh, we'll be fine! As long as the loo doesn't back up again.
  • What I'm about to tell you is supposed to be confidential. Two hours ago three helicopters went down over Scotland. They crashed because the fuel in their lines froze. [Hall: "At what temperature-"] Negative 150 degrees Fahrenheit! I mean, we had to look it up! The temperature dropped phenomenally fast. On the ground, people froze before they could get out of their cars, even.
  • [After Simon suggests they use alcohol as fuel to keep them alive] Are you mad? That's a 12-year-old scotch!
  • [Last words] To mankind.

[edit] Tom

  • I know you have an innate talent for rubbing people the wrong way Jack, but why, why for the love of god, would you aggravate the vice president!?
  • You know, I would say that you've lost your mind, but uh, you've been this way for the past 20 years.

[edit] Jason

  • [As a huge shelf of ice is breaking off] I didn't do anything!
  • Neither one of you knows how to navigate worth a damn. Without me you'll end up in Cleveland.

[edit] Others

  • Luther: Just another typical day in New York City. Traffic jam ten blocks long! Lookie here, Buddha. These people, and their cars, and their exhaust, and they're just polluting the atmosphere!
  • FOX Anchorwoman: What you're seeing is what’s left of downtown Los Angeles
  • Booker: The Canadians are reporting tremendous circulation moving down from the Arctic. In Siberia, there's a low pressure system unlike anything we've ever seen, and Australia just saw the strongest typhoon ever recorded
  • Helicopter Pilot: [Trying to restart plummeting helicopter] Come on, you bastard! Come on!
  • NY Businessman: [Sarcastically] Oh, Man, I love buses. This is just so much fun. This is going to be… the bomb.
  • Reporter: And now, in a dramatic reversal of illegal immigration, thousands of people are now crossing the Rio Grande into Mexico. The scene that's unfolding here behind me is one of desperation and frustration. People have abandoned their cars, grabbed their belongings, and they are wading across the river illegally into Mexico.
  • Frank: [After falling through the ceiling of an indoor mall.] I'm fine! Just dropped in to do a little shopping.
  • Judith: Books can be good for something other than burning.
  • Parker: Have you ever seen the air so clear?

[edit] Dialogue

[Jack is speaking at a global warming convention in New Delhi]
Jack Hall: What I do know, is that if we do not act soon, it is our children and our grandchildren who will have to pay the price.
Vice President Raymond Becker: And who's going to pay the price of the Kyoto accord? It would cost the world's economy hundreds of billions of dollars.
Jack Hall: With all due respect, Mr. Vice President, the cost of doing nothing could be even higher. Our climate is fragile. At the rate we're burning fossil fuels and polluting the environment, the ice caps will soon disappear.
Vice President Raymond Becker: Professor, uh, Hall, our economy is every bit as fragile as the environment. Perhaps you should keep that in mind before making sensationalist claims.
Jack Hall: Well, the last chunk of ice that broke off was about the size of the state of Rhode Island. Some people might call that pretty sensational. [Attendees chuckle]
Lucy Hall: Can you take him to the airport in the morning?
Jack Hall: Sam's getting on a plane?
Lucy Hall: He joined the Scholastic Decathlon Team. They're competing in New York.
Jack Hall: Sam joined a team?
Lucy Hall: [Quietly] Yeah, I think there's a girl involved.
[Sam groans.]
Tom: Jack, I know you have an innate talent for rubbing people the wrong way, but why, why for the love of God did you have to piss off the Vice President?
Jack Hall: Because my seventeen-year-old kid knows more science than him.
Tom: Perhaps, but your seventeen-year-old kid does not control our budget. It doesn't matter if he hates you.
Jack Hall: My son doesn't hate me.
Jack Hall: [On Sam failing calculus] I'm not angry. I'm disappointed.
Sam: Do you wanna hear my side of it?
Jack Hall: Sam, how can there be two sides?
Sam: Hey, look, I got every question right on the final and the only reason why Mr. Spengler failed me was because I didn't write out the solutions.
Jack: Why not?
Sam: I do them in my head.
Jack Hall: Did you tell him that?
Sam: I did. He didn't believe me. He said that if he can't do them in his head then I must be cheating.
Jack Hall: Well, that's ridiculous! How can he fail you for being smarter than he is?
Sam: That's what I said.
Jack Hall: You did? [Smirks] How'd he take it?
Sam: He flunked me, remember?
Brian: You know, statistically, the chance of a plane going down because of turbulence is less than, what, one in a billion? Or is it a million? I can't remember if it's--
Laura: [Noticing that Sam is nervous] Shut up, Brian.
[Luther pushes a shopping cart through New York City traffic]
Luther: Just another typical day in New York City: Traffic jam ten blocks long! Lookie here, Buddha. These people, and their cars, and their exhaust, and they're just polluting the atmosphere!
[He passes the taxicab that Sam, Laura and Brian are in]
Laura Chapman: Excuse me sir, we're really late.
Cabbie: We're almost there.
Brian Parks: We're only two blocks away.
Sam Hall: Let's walk. [He gets out of the cab. Suddenly, the sound of birds shrieking fills the air. Everyone looks up as swarms of birds fly south over Manhattan. At the Central Park Zoo, the animals are acting strangely]
Zookeeper #1: What's gone into them?
Zookeeper #2: No idea. They're all worked up today.
Terry Rapson: This is very odd. There's a buoy here registering a thirteen degree drop in ocean temperature.
Simon: Oh, yeah, that's right. That buoy malfunctioned the other day. I'll put a call in, see if there are any ships near George's Bank to get it.
Terry Rapson: This buoy isn't in George's Bank. It's just off Greenland.
Simon: It is?
[Terry zooms the map out to show both buoys flashing]
Simon: What are the odds of two buoys failing?
Terry Rapson: Remote.
[A third one in a different area begins flashing]
Terry Rapson: Make that three.
Brian: Man, you got some serious competition.
Sam: Please.
Brian: I bet he's really rich too.
Sam: Shut up.
Terry Rapson: We found something extraordinary... extraordinary and disturbing, that is. You recall what you said in New Delhi about how polar melting might disrupt the North Atlantic Current?
Jack Hall: Yes.
Terry Rapson: Well... I think it's happening.
Terry Rapson: There are no forecast models remotely capable of plotting this scenario -- except yours.
Jack Hall: My model is a reconstruction of a prehistoric climate shift. It's not a forecast model.
Terry Rapson: It's the closest thing we have. Nothing like this has ever happened before.
Jack Hall: At least not in the last 10,000 years.
[Gomez has just introduced Jack Hall to meteorologist Janet Tokada, and they see people gathering around the TVs]
Gomez: Booker! What's going on, here?
Booker: They just issued a tornado warning in Los Angeles. [Gomez, Jack and Janet head down to the TVs to get a look]
FOX Anchorman: Breaking news as we prepare to go live to Los Angeles: mixed reports of some extreme weather occuring in the area.
Booker: Report just came in.
FOX Anchorman: All right, we're going to our FOX affiliate in Los Angeles.
[Cuts to Bart, the helicopter pilot, flying his helicopter, with four tornadoes on the horizon]
FOX Anchorwoman: We have live coverage now from our FOX 11 chopper. Are you there, Bart?
Bart: Yes, I'm here. These tornados are forming so fast... [his cameraman points to the left, and Bart sees one tornado erase the Hollywood Sign from the hill] Oh, oh my God! Lisa, are you getting this on camera? This tornado just erased the Hollywood Sign! The Hollywood sign is gone; it's just shredded!
[The helicopter flies into the downtown area, near the Capital Records Building]
FOX Anchorwoman: Bart, what can you see, is anyone hurt?
Bart: [In helicopter] I wouldn't be surprised, there is so much damage down there; and there are people down there, taking pictures! [cuts to the weather anchor yelling over the wind at two people who are recording one of the tornadoes advancing at him]
[Tommy Levinson and his cameraman are driving their van past Los Angeles International Airport]
Tommy Levinson: What you're seeing are two actual tornadoes striking Los Angeles International Airport. Wait, it looks like they've joined to form one large tornado!
Reporter: TOMMY!
Tommy Levinson: Oh my God! [Tommy makes a sudden swerve to avoid hitting a flying car]
[Reporter Tommy Levinson is reporting while tornadoes destroy Los Angeles]
Tommy Levinson: If you look over there behind me, that's a- a tornado! Yes, a twister in Los Angeles. It's one of many tornadoes that are destroying our city! [points to an F5 in the downtown area] There's another one! That's the Los Angeles skyline! It's unbelievable! It's huge! I've never seen anything like it! It- it- it looks like some sort of huge, horrific, terrifying nightmare, only this is the real thing, this- [A flying billboard crushes him, killing him instantly. Cuts to the tornadoes ravaging through the downtown Los Angeles]
Janet: Frank, is he always so obsessive?
[Simultaneously]
Jason: Yes.
Frank: Yes.
[Pause]
Janet: Does he ever lighten up?
[Simultaneously]
Jason: Not really.
Frank: No.
Jason: Jack, we got the results.
Jack Hall: Six to eight months? That can't be.
Janet Tokada: That time scale isn't in months -- it's in weeks.
Laura Chapman: Hey, thanks for bringing us here.
J.D.: I couldn't let you leave New York without seeing the Natural History Museum.
Sam Hall: [Under his breath] Of course not. It's the world's finest collection of stuffed animals.
[Rapson and his colleagues, Simon and Dennis, are snowed-in and are watching a notice about how the royal family is being evacuated]
Dennis: You'd think they'd come and get us since we got snowed in?
Terry Rapson: No not likely. [rubs his hands] Luckily we've got our own gennie - enough tea and biscuits to sink a ship. Nah, we'll be fine. As long as the loo doesn't back up again! [They chuckle]
Terry Rapson: [Over the phone] What I'm about to tell you is supposed to be confidential. Several hours ago, three helicopters went down over Scotland. They crashed because the fuel in their lines froze.
Jack Hall: At what temperature does...
Terry Rapson: [Interrupting] Negative 150 degrees Fahrenheit. I mean, we had to look it up!


[J.D., Brian, Sam and Laura arrive at J.D.'s apartment]
J.D.'s Doorman: Good evening, sir!
J.D.: Hey, Harold. [to his driver] Thanks, Victor. See you in the morning.
Victor: Right, sir.
J.D.'s Doorman: Terrible weather.
Sam Hall: Tell me about it.
[They go upstairs and turn on the lights]
Laura Chapman: You live here?
J.D.: Just on the weekends. It's my dad's place. He's kinda never around, so...
Sam Hall: Where is he?
J.D.: Skiing in Europe with my stepmom. [Laura looks at a photograph on one of the tables]
Laura Chapman: Is this you and your brother?
J.D.: Yeah, that's when we took a bike trip together.
Brian Parks: [looking out the window] It's been raining like this for three days now.
[Luther, the homeless man, is standing outside J.D.'s apartment, looking at slow-moving traffic. A blue Chevy Impala moves forward a few inches, revealing that the manhole under it is backed up. Suddenly, the doorman taps on the door several times]
Luther: I'm just standing here!
J.D.'s Doorman: You can't stay here.
Luther: I never liked this neighborhood anyway! [leaves]
[Grand Central and the subways have closed due to flooding]
Fox Newscaster #2: It's a mob scene here at Grand Central Station where over half the platforms are flooded and service has been suspended on all trains. With planes still grounded and trains now out of service, that's bad news for the countless numbers of commuters and travelers who have been stranded since this morning.
[Lucy Hall sees a news bulletin about the flooding in Manhattan]
New York Reporter: Just to give you an idea of the situation, which seems to be becoming worse with each passing minute, at the moment, we have flooding in most parts of the island. We've got traffic snarl-ups because the electricity is now out to almost every part of Manhattan. No traffic signals, car accidents at least 200, and Lower Manhattan, I've been told, is virtually in-accessible.
[Luther and his dog take shelter in the New York Public Library to escape the flooding]
Library Security Guard: That dog can't come in here.
Luther: Come on, man! It's pouring out there!
Library Security Guard: I don't care. Read the sign. [camera pans down to show a sign that says "NO DRINKS, NO FOOD, NO PETS"]
Luther: This is supposed to be a public library! [cuts to him standing on the front steps in the cold]
[Sam, Laura, Brian, and J.D. are making their way through the water-logged streets of Manhattan]
J.D.: Come on guys, this way! [As they pass between two cars, one businessman accidentally bumps into Sam]
First Businessman: Excuse me. My bad. [He and his colleagues make their way through the stopped cars]
Second Businessman: Goddamn! $1,500 waterproof raincoat!
First Businessman: Please shut up, man!
Second Businessman: God, there must be rats everywhere!
First Businessman: That's 'cause it's New York! [They reach an MTA New York City Transit bus and the first businessman starts banging on the door] Hey! Hey! Hey! Open up, you goddamned bus driver!
MTA Bus Driver: It's out of service. It's out of service! [He opens the doors]
First Businessman: No, no. I'll give you $100 to put it in service.
MTA Bus Driver: You don't have to do that.
First Businessman: No, no. Really, $200. [he gets inside the bus and hands the driver $200] I won't have it. I won't have it. Oh, God, I love buses. This is just so much fun. It's the bomb.
[A message comes over the bus driver's radio]
Man on Radio: There is a wall of water coming towards New York City! Everybody, UMPH! [The radio goes dead. The bus driver and his "passengers" look up, and see people scrambling over the roofs of cars. The bus driver looks in his rearview mirror and sees the tidal wave coming towards them. The water picks up the bus and sends it flying through the air]
Jack Hall: Professor, It's time you got out of there.
Terry Rapson: I'm afraid that time has come and gone, my friend.
Jack Hall: [Pause] What can we do?
Terry Rapson: Save as many as you can.
Sam: Excuse me, are there any pay-phones on the upper floors?
Judith: No, no, no. Uh, but there are some on the mezzanine.
Sam: Great. [Walks away]
Judith: Oh, but I-I-I think it's all underwater!
Vice President Becker: Maybe you should stick to science and leave the policy to us.
Tom: Well, we tried that approach. You didn't want to hear about the science when it could have made a difference.
President Blake: What exactly are you proposing, professor?
Jack Hall: [draws a line from the middle of California across the US to the Virginias] Evacuate everyone south of that line.
President Blake: What about the people in the north?
Jack Hall: I'm afraid it's too late for them. If they go outside, the storm will kill them.
[Jack Hall has proposed evacuating only about half of the US due to time constraints]
General Pierce: We use the same technique with triage on the battlefield. Sometimes, it's necessary to make difficult choices.
Vice President Becker: I don't accept that abandoning half the country is necessary!
Tom: Maybe if you would have listened to him sooner, it wouldn't be.
Vice President Becker: Oh, bullshit. It's easy for him to suggest this plan; he's safely here in Washington!
Tom: His son is in Manhattan. [Long pause] I just thought you should know that before you start questioning his motives.
[Rapson and his colleagues have run out of fuel to power the generator]
Dennis: Sorry mates, but we've just about run out of petrol.
Simon: Hey. [grabs a bottle of scotch] Is there any chance that it will run on this?
Terry Rapson: Are you mad? That's a twelve year old scotch! [Simon pours the scotch into three glasses]
Simon: Gentlemen. To England.
Terry Rapson: To Mankind.
Dennis: To Manchester United!
[They drink. Simon starts to talk about his infant son]
Simon: I just… I just wish I could have seen him grow up, you know?
Terry Rapson: The important thing is that he will grow up. [The last of the petroleum fuel burns out, and the power fails]
Dennis: [softly] Amen.
[Brian fixes a radio while the others in the library sleep]
Officer Campbell: Maybe you should have somebody help you with that.
Brian: Sir, I am president of the electronics club, the math club, and the chess club. Now, if there is a bigger nerd in here, please; Point him out.
[Without opening his eyes, Sam smiles]
Officer Campbell: I'll just leave you alone to work on it.
Judith: Here it is. Oh, this fireplace probably hasn't been used in about a hundred years.
Sam: [He opens the flue, dodging the snow that falls from the chimney.] Ugh, whoa. Alright. [He starts ripping up books and throwing them in the fireplace]
Judith: What are you doing?
Sam: What did you think we were going to burn?
Judith: You can't burn books!
Jeremy: NO! Absolutely not!
Sam: You wanna freeze to death?
J.D.: We're not going to last very long on M&M's and potato chips.
Luther: How 'bout the garbage can? [Judith looks at him, shocked] There's always something to eat in the garbage.
Jeremy: Friedrich Nietzsche? We cannot burn Friedrich Nietzsche! He was the most important thinker of the 19th century!
Elsa: Oh, please! Nietzsche was a chauvinist pig who was in love with his sister.
Jeremy: He was not a chauvinist pig!
Elsa: But he was in love with his sister.
Brian: Uh, excuse me, you guys? Yeah. There's a whole section on tax law down here that we can burn.
Laura: I've got one. Your favorite vacation?
Sam: Besides this one?
Elsa: What have you got there?
Jeremy: A Gutenberg Bible. It was in the rare books room.
Elsa: You think God's gonna save you?
Jeremy: No, I don't believe in God.
Elsa: You're holding onto that bible pretty tight.
Jeremy: I'm protecting it. [Glares at Sam] This Bible is the first book ever printed. It represents the dawn of the Age of Reason. As far as I'm concerned, the written word is mankind's greatest achievement. You can laugh. But if Western civilization is finished, I'm gonna save at least one little piece of it.
Laura: Everything I've ever cared about, everything I've worked for, has all been preparation for a future that no longer exists. I know you always thought I took the competition too seriously. You were right. It was all for nothing.
Sam: No. No, I just said that to avoid admitting the truth.
Laura: The truth about what?
Sam: About why I joined the team. I joined it because of you.
Jason Evans: What do you think is gonna happen to us?
Jack Hall: What do you mean?
Jason Evans: I mean us? Civilization? Everybody?
Jack Hall: Mankind survived the last Ice Age. We're certainly capable of surviving this one. All it depends on is whether or not we're able to learn from our mistakes.

[edit] Taglines

  • Where Will You Be?
  • 10,000 Years Ago, One Storm Changed The Face Of Our Planet. On May 28, It Will Happen Again.
  • Nature Has Spoken.
  • This Year, A Sweater Won't Do.
  • Whoever Said "Tomorrow Is Another Day"...Didn't Check The Weather.

[edit] Cast

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