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Release Date: 2008

Cast: Lorraine Hilton, Myles Thompson, Frankie McCafferty, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Lara McIvor, Lucinda Dryzek, Conor MacNeill, Mary Kay Place, Harry Treadaway, Simon Kunz, Toby Jones, Eoin McAndrew ...MORE

Cast: Lorraine Hilton, Myles Thompson, Frankie McCafferty, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Lara McIvor, Lucinda Dryzek, Conor MacNeill, Mary Kay Place, Harry Treadaway, Simon Kunz, Toby Jones, Eoin McAndrew, Rachel Morton, Liz Smith, Tim Robbins, Martin Landau, Saoirse Ronan, Mackenzie Crook, Ian McElhinney, Matt Jessup, David Ryall, Bill Murray, B.J. Hogg ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Film Adaptation, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Children'S/Family, Children'S Fantasy, Family Drama, Adventure, Family, Dystopia, Drama Film, Fantasy Adventure

City of Ember is a 2008 science fiction fantasy film based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Jeanne DuPrau. It was directed by Gil Kenan from a screenplay by Caroline Thompson, and stars Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau and Tim Robbins. In the midst of a nuclear war, the Builders of the underground "City of Ember" place secret instructions to future generations in a small box. They agree that 200 years should be a reasonable margin of safety to stay underground. The box is thrust into the hands of the mayor of the underground complex. Each... MORE

City of Ember is a 2008 science fiction fantasy film based on the 2003 novel of the same name by Jeanne DuPrau. It was directed by Gil Kenan from a screenplay by Caroline Thompson, and stars Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau and Tim Robbins. In the midst of a nuclear war, the Builders of the underground "City of Ember" place secret instructions to future generations in a small box. They agree that 200 years should be a reasonable margin of safety to stay underground. The box is thrust into the hands of the mayor of the underground complex. Each mayor, in turn, passes the box onto his or her successor. When the box has 47 more years left on the time-lock, the mayor holding the box dies suddenly. The significance of the box had not been explained to anyone else and the mayor's family places it in junk-filled closet. When it finally reaches year 200, the time-lock clicks open, but the event goes unnoticed. For generations, the people of Ember have lived in a huge underground complex built as a refuge for humanity. It is built into a vast cavern so high that it is filled with regular-sized buildings. Far above the tops of the buildings are LESS