The Day After Tomorrow

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	Dennis Quaid	Jack Hall
	Jake Gyllenhaal	Sam Hall
	Emmy Rossum	Laura Chapman
	Dash Mihok	Jason Evans
	Jay O. Sanders	Frank Harris
	Sela Ward	Dr. Lucy Hall
	Austin Nichols	J.D.
	Arjay Smith	Brian Parks
	Tamlyn Tomita	Janet Tokada
	Sasha Roiz	Parker
	Ian Holm	Terry Rapson
	Nassim Sharara	Saudi Delegate
	Carl Alacchi	Venezuelan Delegate
	Kenneth Welsh	Vice President Becker
	Michel 'Gish' Abou-Samah	Saudi Translator
	Robin Wilcock	Tony
	Jason Blicker	Paul
	Kenneth Moskow	Bob
	Tim Hamaguchi	Taka
	Glenn Plummer	Luther
	Adrian Lester	Simon
	Richard McMillan	Dennis
	Nestor Serrano	Gomez
	Sylvain Landry	Science Officer
	Christopher Britton	Vorsteen

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Director	Roland Emmerich
Writer	Roland Emmerich, Jeffrey Nachmanoff
Producer	Roland Emmerich, Ute Emmerich, Stephanie Germain, Mark Gordon, Thomas M. Hammel, Lawrence Inglee, Tavin Marin Titus, Kelly Van Horn, Kim H. Winther
Musician	Harald Kloser
Photography	Ueli Steiger

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Story Synopsis:
When global warming triggers the onset of a new Ice Age, tornadoes flatten Los Angeles, a tidal wave engulfs New York City, and the entire Northern Hemisphere begins to freeze solid. Now, climatologist Jack Hall (Quaid) and his son Sam (Gyllenhaal) must try and survive the phenomenon if they want to live to see The Day After Tomorrow. (Suzanne Hodges)


DVD Picture:
Loaded with visual effects, this anamorphically enhanced DVD looks great! Images are sharp and detailed with excellent textures. Colors are naturally balanced with accurate fleshtones and deep blacks. There are rare instances in which edges appear enhanced, and some pixelization is present. But for a picture that really impresses, the D-VHS D-Theater edition exhibits image quality that far surpasses what the DVD can offer. Scenes which appear “pasty” on the DVD are much more vivid and better delineated on the D-VHS. Colors are even richer and more natural (even in such supernatural conditions depicted in the movie). There are no signs of edge enhancement on the D-VHS, and the picture is completely solid throughout. Both formats are framed at 2.35:1. (Suzanne Hodges)

Soundtrack:
This extremely fun, effective, and at many times awesome sounding soundtrack had me completely enthralled and immersed into the on-screen events from the first couple scenes of the movie. The story is sometimes iffy, but the DTS® Digital Surround™ and Dolby® Digital 5.1-channel soundtracks deliver a truly wonderful and immersive sonic listening experience throughout. This soundtrack really excels as the weather around the world worsens. And as home theatre sound afficionados well know, bad weather-when done right in the movies-equals really great sonics. A couple of main highlights of the soundtrack presentation are in spatial dimensionality and bass. Bass extension is extremely deep, powerful, and thunderous. The listening space is easily stretched and widened from this very expansive sounding sound mix. If there was only one word to define the sonic performance of this soundtrack, “immersive” certainly would be correct. Between the two sound formats, the DTS version easily delivers a much better presentation. With the DTS version, the audio is much more impactful even with the -6 dB dialnorm offset adjustment. The DTS soundtrack delivers a much fuller, detailed, and immersive (yes, there’s that word again) listening experience. This is a soundtrack where you just lose yourself in the special effects on-screen and let the audio just wash over you. It is sort of surprising how much the DTS® Digital Surround™ and Dolby® Digital 5.1-channel soundtracks on the D-VHS D-Theater format outperformed the DVD soundtracks. The DVD soundtracks performed exceptionally well, but the D-VHS soundtracks take the sonic impact up a notch. Everything is much more detailed and far-reaching sonically with much more gut impact on the D-VHS versions. There is a much better spread of audio information in the form of channel separation across the front three screen channels. The surround channels really extend the listening space as these two channels are more prominent than that found in the DVD soundtracks. LFE channel activity, like its DVD soundtrack counterparts, is deep and extremely powerful. The DTS version sounds more involving than the Dolby version, but on the D-VHS format they both excel wonderfully. (Jeffrey Kern)

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