City of Ember

  • Adventure
  • Family
  • Fantasy
10/7/2008
90
PG

Escape is the only option

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights. But Ember's once powerful generator is failing and the great lamps that illuminate the city are starting to flicker. Now, two teenagers, in a race against time, must search Ember for clues that will unlock the ancient mystery of the city's existence, before the the lights go out forever.

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Revenue:
$17,869,048
Budget:
$55,000,000

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  • Geronimo1967

    With the future of the planet in grave danger, some far-sighted builders decide that its best for humanity to build a subterranean city into which they can retreat. Its got to be something self-sustaining as they are going to be down there for a couple of centuries. They do provide exit instructions, but over time they get lost and so nobody knows that maybe its time to resurface. Now, though, the engineering is starting to give up the ghost and that means power and food are becoming rationed. The mayor (Bill Murray) is hopelessly out of his depth/obsessed with his own position and the chief electrician Sul (Martin Landau) is running out of ideas so it falls to the unlikely pairing of youngsters Lina (Saoirse Ronan) and Doon (Harry Treadawa...

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