THE CORE

Year: 2003
USA: Paramount
UK: UIP
Cast: Aaron Eckhart, Hilary Swank, Delroy Lindo, Stanley Tucci, D J Qualls, Richard Jenkins, Tcheky Karyo, Bruce Greenwood, Alfre Woodard, Terry O'Quinn, Nicole Leroux, Alejandro Abellan, Gregory Bennett, Vanna Bonta, Angelica Hayden, Dion Johnstone, Pamela Martin, Glenn Morshower, Laurie Murdoch, Alonso Oyarzun, Rekha Sharma, Christopher Shyer, Jennifer Spence
Director: Jon Amiel
Countries: USA / UK
USA & UK: 135 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for sci-fi life/death situations and brief strong language
UK Certificate: 12A contains one use of strong language and disaster theme
USA Release Date: 28 March 2003
UK Release Date: 28 March 2003


Synopsis

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, slamming into windshields and causing drivers to lose control of their cars. And in Rome, as thousands of tourists watch helplessly, an electrical superstorm reduces the ancient Roman Colosseum to rubble.

Scrambling to resolve the crisis, government and military officials call upon geophysicist Dr Josh Keyes (Aaron Eckhart) 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 (Hilary Swank) and Commander Robert Iverson (Bruce Greenwood). Their mission: Detonate a nuclear device that will reactivate the core and save the world from sure destruction.