2004 Movies : Thriller

With Jake Gyllenhaal • Emmy Rossum • Dennis Quaid • Roland Emmerich • Mark Gordon • Rick Hoffman • Jared Harris • Joe Cobden • Sela Ward • Austin Nichols • Perry King • Kenneth Moskow • Nestor Serrano • Arjay Smith • Jeffrey Nachmanoff

A high-concept big-budget movie from director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day"), it's about a climatological disaster that ravages the world beyond recognition. As millions of terrified survivors flee south, Professor Adrian Hall (Dennis Quaid), a brilliant paleoclimatologist, heads to New York City — now a frozen wasteland — in search of his son Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), who may still be alive.