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Synopsis: Blessed, or cursed, with the ability to see events minutes before they occur, Cris Johnson (Nicolas Cage) earns a living as a magician in Las Vegas and keeps a low profile under an alias. When terrorists threaten to detonate a nuclear weapon in Las Angeles, government agent Callie Ferris (Julianne Moore) goes on the hunt for Cris and hopes to convince him to help her stop the coming apocalypse.
Production: Paramount Pictures
  2 wins & 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.2
Metacritic:
42
Rotten Tomatoes:
28%
PG-13
Year:
2007
96 min
$17,993,461
Website
936 Views


Cris re-emerges a moment later and heads back toward the

casino.

Casino

Ferris, arriving, adjusts her headset.

Cris sees her. Recognizes her from his prevision as the woman

on the plasma screen. Turns and walks away.

She sees Cris. Takes off after him.

Ferris

(to head mic)

He’s heading toward...

(reads sign)

the Ipanema Grill.

Security Staff converge on the area. Cris is in plain sight.

Suddenly a busload of tourists surge in through a door and

clog the way.

Cris continues into the...

11.

Kitchen area

Passing a room service cart, he rolls it in front of him. A

few steps on, he takes the bottle of OLIVE OIL on the cart

and pours some in front of one random closed door. Cris then

shoves the room service cart down the hall toward an empty

intersecting corridor. A Black Suit barrels into the empty

intersection just as the cart arrives - and tumbles over it.

Behind Cris, a door swings open; a Black Suit charges out;

steps precisely into the puddle of poured olive oil - and

falls on his ass.

Cris slips by him, but gets cut off by an arriving group of

FOUR MORE BLACK SUITS. Big guys. They try to grab him. He

evades their grasp almost magically and, like a Shaolin Monk,

somehow leverages them into each other until they are in a

pile on the floor. Cris darts around them into the...

Lobby

He co-opts a luggage cart that is loaded up for delivery.

Rolling it to the left, a Black Suit on that side doesn’t see

him - and moves on. Cris switches to the right side of the

card - just as a second Black Suit would have seen him.

Abandoning the cart, Cris sets off across the lobby in a

herky-jerky rhythm.

He walks four quick steps without being seen. Then stops

behind a column just as Black Suit 1 turns his way. When

Black Suit 1 looks on, Cris resumes his journey, cutting

across the lobby at an acute angle. In this way, he avoids

being seen by Black Suit 2. Cris now backs up three steps and

avoids being seen by Black Suit 3.

By precisely choosing his movements and knowing where his

hunters will be looking, Cris achieves something like

invisibility.

The last obstacle to daylight is Ferris. She sees him. He

makes a run for the door. She dashes after him.

FERRIS:

You! I just need to talk to you!

Cris grabs a guest's suitcase and keeps moving.

FERRIS:

Homeland Security!

12.

The guest chases after Cris - and collides with Ferris,

knocking her to the ground. Which allows Cris to slip through

a door to the...

Ext. Hotel loading dock - day

Where TWO LAUNDRY DELIVERY MEN are flinging sacks of clothes

into the back of a truck. Cris steps toward the open tailgate

with a steady pace. As if on cue, both Laundry Guys turn and

bend to pick up another sack of clothes. Cris walks right by

them without being noticed -- and climbs into the truck. A

moment later, the Laundry Guys pivot back around, toss sacks

of clothes in after Cris, and slam the rear doors. They get

in the truck and drive off just as Ferris, Davis, and several

Black Suits arrive to find a cold trail.

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Gary Goldman

Gary Wayne Goldman is an American film producer, director, animator, writer and voice actor, he is well known for working on films with Don Bluth such as Anastasia, An American Tail, and The Land Before Time. more…

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