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The Day After Tomorrow
BY: Miranda Rosaio


The Day After Tomorrow was movie released in 2004 and is all about the concerning conflict of the long term greenhouse effect. The world is sent into spiraling chaos as a massive storm strikes the U.S. At the center of the storm is the paleoclimatolagist (a professor dedicated to the study of weather patterns) Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) who takes on all the dangers of the world as it is sent into a second ice age. Before the chaos begins, Jack Hall’s son, Sam Hall (Jake Gyllenhaal) is attending an academic bowl in New York City. When the storm hits, Sam and a few others reside to the inside of a library. As everyone fights to stay alive, many people who managed to flee to the south try to figure out how to save the U.S. No one quite understands why the weather is being so chaotic until astronauts send down photographs of the storm from space. The storm is much worse than they realized.
The Day After Tomorrow was a smash hit at box offices, and won an award from The British Academy of Film and Television arts for having the best special effects of the year. I myself would definitely recommend this movie. It is an adventure, fantasy and action movie that can relate to the present day economy. (Don’t forget that it’s PG-13!)