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From director Roland Emmerich comes this imaginative, special-effects laden look at what might happen if global warming trends continue. Contrary to what you may have heard, it does not mean that it just gets a little warmer outside. Instead, worldwide catastrophe occurs, including hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, hailstorms, earthquakes, tsunami waves, and, ironically, the next Ice Age. The story's protagonist is 45-year-old Professor Adrian Hall (Dennis Quaid), who is a brilliant and world-renowned paleoclimatologist, a scientist who studies ancient weather patterns. Described as a well-bred autocrat with the attitude of a Texas roughneck, he has his hands full, juggling his efforts to save the world from global warming while heading for New York City to rescue his only son, 17-year-old Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal). Sam, an insecure underachiever, was in New York for the Academic Decathlon nationals with his pretty love interest Laura (Emmy Rossum) when the new Ice Age hit, turning the Big Apple into a frozen wasteland. At least the good professor is going against traffic, since the surviving members of humanity are racing southward to outrun the terror, while he is one of the few headed north.
While Roland Emmerich has had success with non-disaster flicks such as The Patriot, he is best known for films that pit all of humanity against an overwhelming nemesis, such as a giant reptile in Godzilla or technologically advanced aliens in Independence Day. For 20th Century Fox to produce this special-effects-heavy picture on a budget $125 million, efforts were made to corral actor salaries by hiring established performers who do not command the exorbitant fees of Hollywood's top actors. As a result, Mel Gibson was dropped in favor of Dennis Quaid, although director Roland Emmerich is due $10 million against 10% of the gross. Tomorrow was originally slated for a Summer 2003 release, but the extensive special effects work pushed out the release until May 2004. Filming took place in Montreal, New York and Los Angeles. This movie was briefly titled "The Day After Tomorrow" during pre-production, then changed to simply "Tomorrow," apparently to avoid confusion with the 1994 best-selling novel, "The Day After Tomorrow," by Allan Folsom, a conspiracy thriller about an American traveling in Paris who spots the man who killed his father 25 years earlier. However, the film title was then again changed back to "The Day After Tomorrow."
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