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The Core, Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank (2003)
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Synopsis of the DVD Movie: The Core
For reasons unknown, the earth's inner core has stopped rotating, causing the planet's electromagnetic field to rapidly deteriorate. Instantly, life around the globe begins to change dramatically. In Boston, 32 people with pacemakers, all within a 10-block radius, suddenly drop dead. In San Francisco, the Golden Gate Bridge collapses, sending hundreds of people plunging to their deaths. In London's Trafalgar Square, flocks of pigeons lose their ability to navigate, flying into panicked crowds. And in Rome, as thousands of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the ancient Colosseum to rubble. Scrambling to resolve the crisis, government and military officials call upon geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes and a team of the world's most gifted scientists to travel into the earth's core in a subterranean craft piloted by terranauts Major Rebecca "Beck" Childs and Commander Robert Iverson. Their mission: detonate a nuclear device that will reacativate the core and save the world from sure destruction.
DVD Movie Rating for: The Core
Rating 3 out of 5 stars
Movie Plot of: The Core
Scientists discover that the Earth's core is about to stop spinning. This will cause tremendous natural disasters, wiping out life as we know it. A team of scientists is recruited in a crash project to send a ship and bomb into the center of the Earth to prevent the catastrophe.
DVD Production Details of: The Core
Starring: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank
Director: Jon Amiel
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
Studio: Paramount Home Video
DVD Release Date: September 9, 2003
DVD Features:
Commentary by director Jon Amiel
To The Core And Back - The Making Of The Core
10 Deleted/extended Scenes With Director Commentary
Widescreen anamorphic format
DVD Easter Eggs
None
Cast of the movie: The Core
- Aaron Eckhart .... Dr. Josh Keyes
- Christopher Shyer .... Dave Perry
- Ray Galletti .... Paul
- Hilary Swank .... Maj. Rebecca Childs
- Tchéky Karyo .... Dr. Serge Leveque
- Eileen Pedde .... Lynne
- Rekha Sharma .... Danni (as Rékha Sharma)
- Stanley Tucci .... Dr. Conrad Zimsky
- Delroy Lindo .... Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton
- Tom Scholte .... Acker
- Bruce Greenwood .... Col. Robert Iverson
- Richard Jenkins .... Gen. Thomas Purcell
- Glenn Morshower .... FBI Agent
- Anthony Harrison .... FBI Agent
- Alfre Woodard .... Talma Stickley
- DJ Qualls .... Taz 'Rat' Finch
- Bart Anderson .... Dad
- Nicole Leroux .... Mom
- Justin Callan .... Little Boy
- Chris Humphreys .... GBTV Reporter - Trafalgar Square
- Dion Johnstone .... Flight Engineer Timmins
- Fred Ewanuick .... Endeavor Flight Engineer (as Fred Ewanvick)
- Hrothgar Mathews .... Chief Engineer Mission Control
- Shawn Green .... Himself
- Ming-Tzong Hong .... Scientist
- Jennifer Spence .... Zimsky's Assistant
- Michael St. John Smith .... Pentagon General
- John Shaw .... FBI Agent - Rat's Apartment
- Nickolas Baric .... Security Policeman - Tribunal
- Fred Keating .... Court Marshall Presiding Officer
- Rosa Di Brigida .... Rome Café Patron
- Roberto Roberto .... Rome Café Patron
- Ermanno De Biagi .... Rome Café Patron
- Marcello Laurentis .... Rome Café Patron
- Greg Bennett .... Technician - Virgil Base
- Matt Winston .... Luke Barry
- Claire Riley .... News Anchor
- Marke Driesschen .... News Anchor
- Laurie Murdoch .... Project Destiny Engineer
- Costa Spanos .... Project Destiny Engineer
- Monique Martel .... Paris Café Lady
- Lenie Scoffié .... Paris Café Lady
- Nathaniel DeVeaux .... U.S.S. Constellation Captain
- Robert Manitopyes .... U.S.S. Constellation Screen Ops
- Alejandro Abellan .... U.S.S. Soldier (uncredited)
- Vanna Bonta .... Journalist (uncredited) (voice)
- Joe Gallegos .... Pakistani Scientist (uncredited)
- Angelica Hayden .... Coffeehouse Patron (uncredited)
- Robert Paul Lewis .... Beach-goer (uncredited)
- Pamela Martin .... News Anchor (uncredited)
- Alec Medlock .... (uncredited) (voice)
- Alonso Oyarzun .... Security Policeman (uncredited)
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Reviews of the movie: The Core
THE CORE (2003) Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, Tcheky Karyo, Bruce Greenwood, Richard Jenkins, DJ Qualls, Alfre Woodard. Extravagant special effects are the true stars of this overcooked doomsday sci-fi actioner a la Irwin Allen when it is discovered that the earth's core is in the stages of stopping its revolution whereby all mankind will be destroyed and a motley crew of scientists and 'terranauts' converge to burrow into the bowels of the planet in a make-shift vessel to save the day. The cast is game and the script by Cooper Layne and John Rogers provides enough tension and some unbalanced science that comes across thisclose as to being believable.
Smarter than Armageddon and equally extreme, The Core is high-tech Hollywood hokum at its finest. It's scientifically ridiculous, but this variant of Fantastic Voyage at least tries to be credible as it plunges deep into the earth's inner core, where a formulaic team of experts pilot an earth-boring ship to jump-start the planet's spinning molten interior, now stalled by a military secret that could seal the fate of all humankind. It's a geophysicist's wet dream that only a fine ensemble cast could rescue from absurdity, and director Jon Amiel (Entrapment, Copycat) draws excellent work (and plenty of humorous interplay) from Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Stanley Tucci, Delroy Lindo, and a host of memorable supporting players, especially The New Guy's D.J. Qualls as the world's greatest cyber-nerd. With enough digital F/X disasters to satisfy anyone's apocalyptic fantasies, this is a popcorn thriller with all the bells and whistles that its genre demands. Sit back, pump up the volume, and enjoy the dazzling ride
