Post by Kaz ~:~ on Dec 3, 2016 18:09:56 GMT -6
Plot....
Raymond "Ray" Gaines (Dwayne Johnson) is a Los Angeles Fire Department Air Rescue pilot in the midst of a divorce from Emma (Carla Gugino) and planning a trip to San Francisco with his daughter Blake (Alexandra Daddario).
Meanwhile, Caltech seismologist Lawrence Hayes (Paul Giamatti) and his colleague Dr. Kim Park (Will Yun Lee) are at Hoover Dam doing research for a new earthquake predicting model when a nearby and heretofore unknown fault ruptures. This triggers a 7.1 magnitude earthquake that collapses the dam and kills Park after he rescues a little girl and throws her to Hayes as he falls to the collapsing ground.
When Ray is called into work because of this, Blake goes with her mother's new boyfriend Daniel Riddick (Ioan Gruffudd) to San Francisco, instead of Ray.
Hayes discovers that the San Andreas Fault is shifting and will soon cause a major earthquake, thereby destroying cities along the fault line. Emma is having lunch at a hotel in Downtown LA with Daniel's sister Susan (Kylie Minogue) when the fault shifts triggering a 9.1 magnitude earthquake, with Susan among the casualties during the event. Rather than reporting for emergency rescue duty, Ray saves Emma from the collapsing building, and they escape the city aboard his helicopter, barely managing to swerve around the US Bank Tower as it comes crumbling down.
In San Francisco, Daniel brings Blake to his office where she meets Ben (Hugo Johnstone-Burt), an engineering student from England seeking employment and his brother, Ollie (Art Parkinson). Daniel and Blake leave the premises, but become trapped in their car in the parking garage after a string of earthquakes. Daniel flees but Blake is found by Ben and Ollie, who help her escape. They then find a working phone and Blake calls Ray and Emma, who fly to San Francisco to save her.
En route, Ray's helicopter fails, forcing him to make an emergency landing at a shopping mall in Bakersfield. Amid the chaos of looting, he steals a truck and he and Emma escape. They come across an older couple broken down on the side of the road where the San Andreas Fault has opened up, blocking the road and the couple, who happen to own an airplane, agree to give it up in exchange for Ray's vehicle.
In San Francisco, Blake, Ben and Ollie are trying to find a place to signal Ray, as the point they agreed to meet at, Coit Tower, is engulfed in flames. On approach, Ray and Emma are forced to parachute in the city when a 9.6 magnitude quake hits the city, becoming the largest earthquake in history. Much of the city is left in ruins and Blake, Ben and Ollie narrowly survive. Ray and Emma, realizing they cannot make their way through the destroyed city, are able to commandeer a boat only to see that the water in the bay is beginning to recede, indicating that a megatsunami is approaching.
As it approaches, Blake, Ben, and Ollie run into a building under construction which Daniel helped design. Ray, Emma and dozens of other people in boats manages to make it over the wave before it crests, but the giant tsunami hits the Golden Gate Bridge with an enormous cargo ship, which snaps the bridge span cleanly in two; Daniel is among those killed when a shipping container crushes him. The wave then proceeds into the ruined city, swamping cruise ships and flooding the building Blake is in. Emma and Ray make their way through the flooded downtown area and are finally able to locate Blake, Ben, and Ollie as the building begins to sink beneath the water. Ray dives into the building to save Blake as she becomes unconscious while trapped underwater, while Emma breaks into the building with the boat and rescues everyone just as the building collapses; however Blake apparently drowned. Ray, however, manages to resuscitate her, and the family is happily reunited.
They head to a relief camp where the reconciled Ray and Emma talk about their future; on the remains of the Golden Gate Bridge, an American flag unfolds, giving hope that the city will recover and rebuild as rescue vehicles descend on the radically altered landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area. Then the camera zooms out to see the West Coast, showing California as an island.
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Cast ....
Dwayne Johnson as Chief Raymond "Ray" Gaines, a Los Angeles Fire Department helicopter-rescue pilot
Carla Gugino as Emma Gaines, Ray's estranged wife
Alexandra Daddario as Blake Gaines, Ray and Emma's daughter
Hugo Johnstone-Burt as Ben Taylor, an English architect and Blake's love interest
Art Parkinson as Ollie Taylor, an English boy and Ben's younger brother
Ioan Gruffudd as Daniel Riddick, Emma's boyfriend
Paul Giamatti as Dr. Lawrence Hayes, a Caltech seismologist
Archie Panjabi as Serena Johnson, a news reporter
Will Yun Lee as Dr. Kim Park, a Caltech seismologist and Lawrence's partner
Kylie Minogue as Susan Riddick, Daniel's sister
Alec Utgoff as Alexi, Lawrence's student
Marissa Neitling as Phoebe, Lawrence's student
Todd Williams as Marcus Crowlings, Ray's partner
Colton Haynes as Joby O'Leary, Ray's partner
Morgan Griffin as Natalie, the young girl rescued by Ray at the beginning of the movie.
Breanne Hill as Larissa, a waitress
Matt Gerald as Harrison
Julian Shaw as Stoner
Richard Armitage as Waiter
