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Synopsis: Ray Ferrier (Cruise) is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. When his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son Robbie and young daughter Rachel for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm suddenly touches down. What follows is the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it in this contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells seminal classic sci-fi thriller.
Director(s): Steven Spielberg
Production: Paramount Pictures
  Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 44 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
73
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG-13
Year:
2005
116 min
$234,141,872
Website
2,454 Views


no driver's license and no permission,

I call the cops.

You better be there when I get back.

- Yeah.

- Robbie.

Manny, Manny.

Manny, what is it, dead?

All of them. Everything.

Look at this.

- The starter's fried.

- Lightning hit it?

Not even close.

I thought if I changed it...

- Any idea what's going on?

- I'm on my way to find out.

Try changing the solenoid.

It's probably fried.

Right, that's what I said.

I told you that. The solenoid.

Hey, they're saying all the

lightning struck down by the church.

What the hell is going on

around here?

- Let us through.

- Hey.

- Let us through here.

- Hey.

What up, Ray?

I should've known

you two were behind this.

Hey, God's pissed off at the

neighborhood, Raymond.

- I'll tell you that much.

- You see it?

- You got power where you are?

- Nope. Nothing.

It's the cars, though.

That's the thing.

Solar flare. That's what

this guy told me he heard.

- A solar flare?

- The sun shoots off big blobs of plasma.

They turn into solar flares.

It's the only thing that can kill

- all the electronic stuff.

- Can I tell you something?

The sun does not cause lightning.

- I'm telling you what that guy said.

- I understand,

but it just sounds dumb

when you say...

I never seen anything like this before.

That many strikes of lightning

in one spot?

- Is this the only place?

- Come on, put that down.

- You wanna step back, please?

- Step back.

- You're gonna fall in.

- Get back.

Back up, people.

People, back up back there.

Move back. Everybody back up.

Move back.

Move back.

- Is it hot?

- Back up.

- No.

- Back up.

- It's freezing.

- What is that?

Oh, wait. Move. You feel that?

- I feel that.

- Hey, Bobby, come check this out.

- You feel that?

- Feel that?

- Yeah, I feel that.

- What is it, the subway?

- There's no subway here.

- F train, maybe?

That can't be the water main.

There's nothing else down there.

- Water main doesn't run through here.

- Feel that?

There's something down there

and it's moving.

Everybody move back.

Whoa. Back it up. Come on.

Let's go.

Come on, folks. Back up.

Get back.

Help me out here. Get back.

- Go! Move!

- Everybody get out of the way!

Everyone back up!

Everyone clear the intersection!

Get out of the way! Back up!

Back up! Get out of the way!

- Forget it! Get back!

- Get the hell out of the street!

Move away!

Come on, we gotta

clear this area now!

That's my car!

Go, go.

Get the hell out of here!

Oh, my God!

Come on, people! Let's go!

Come on, back up!

Please! Move back!

Watch it!

Oh, my God.

Ray, no. Stay, man.

Just stay.

- Just stay back here. Stay back!

- Wow.

Come on.

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Josh Friedman

Josh Friedman (born 1967) is an American screenwriter best known as writer of the TV series Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles and the 2005 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' War of the Worlds. Friedman also publishes the blog "I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing". After being offered an opportunity to work on a script titled Snakes on a Plane, Friedman posted a blog entry that sparked interest in the film on the Internet before the movie entered production. The same entry introduced a profane line that was added to the film when the cast reconvened in March 2006 to shoot additional footage. On August 1, 2013 he was announced as co-screenwriter of Avatar 2 with James Cameron. He is a kidney cancer survivor. more…

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