Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
by Mikael Salomon
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Actor: Charles S. Dutton, Jennifer Garner, Lisa Nicole Carson, Sharon Lawrence, Tom SkerrittDirector: Mikael Salomon
Brand: LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Producer: David Stevens
Writer: David Stevens
Producer: David V. Picker
Producer: Jonathan Starch
Writer: Chuck Scarborough
Writer: Loren Boothby
Writer: Paul Eric Myers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 170 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-20
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Lions Gate
Movie Reviews of Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
Movie Review: New York's California earthquake!
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie is excellent and has a very good cast. The actors and actresses all did their roles very well and the earthquake scenes were very action-packed.
Tom Skerritt plays the fire chief of New York, who is about to resign from his job in protest due to a never-ending conflict on city policies made by the city mayor.
Jennifer Garner plays a struggling ballet dancer who is trying to keep herself in her house, with much help from her banker father, until her apartment building is blown up by a gas leak caused on by several slight tremors rocking through Manhattan. When her father is killed in the major tremor that destroys the city, she goes out to seek her mother, with the much-needed assistance of a cabdriver that had moved to NYC from Russia three months earlier.
There are a few other plots in this movie, like an overprotective mother with a troubled past who goes out to save her slightly-limping son that is trapped on the top floor of his collapsed school in the restroom, and the father who is currently away on a business trip, and does everything in his power to get back to NYC to help his family.
The mayor's daughter is a public defender who just won a court case in declaring her client innocent from the accusing charge of him murdering his handicapped wife. But when both of them are trapped in the earthquake's aftermath down in the subway with several other survivors, she discovers the dark side of her client as his odd behavior takes over and wonders if he was truly innocent after all.
The mayor's elderly mother ends up trapped in the basement of a destroyed church, along with a troubled young man who had been hired to help clean up the church, and they have to find a way out. In the midst of the crisis, the fire chief and the mayor have to settle their problems and work together, with the knowledge that their city emergency plans have been destroyed with the rest of One Police Plaza, along with the police chief as well. The fire chief is also anguished at the news that his teenaged daughter is trapped in the collapsed ruins of her high school and he goes out of his way to help rescue her with any students that are trapped with her.
All in all, this makes for a great movie. A little sad to see such destruction and so many injured and dying people, but the movie is supposed to be as realistic as possible, right?
Summary of Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
New York the City That Never Sleeps is trapped in a nightmare of horror and destruction when a massive earthquake rocks the unsuspecting city. Countless lives are lost families are torn apart and chaos runs rampant as the Mayor (Charles S. Dutton) and former Fire Chief (Tom Skerritt) race to enact a city-wide emergency plan. The two men also face personal devastation and uncertainty as their own family members lie buried in the toppled infrastructure. Sharon Lawrence Lisa Nicole Carson and Cicely Tyson also star in this incredible story of undying courage in the face of unimaginable human tragedy.System Requirements:Starring: Lisa Nicole Carson Charles Dutton Jennifer Garner Sharon Lawrence Tom Skerritt and Cicely Tyson. Directed By: Michael Salomon. Running Time: 170 Min. Color. This film is presented in "Standard" format. Copyright 2002 Artisan Entertainment.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: NR UPC: 707729115991 Manufacturer No: 11599Similar DVD Movies
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