2012

About 2012

Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up.

Roland Emmerich's 2012 is a 2009 science fiction film. John Cusack takes the lead as Jackson Curtis, Amanda Peet as Kate Curtis, Chiwetel Ejiofor as Adrian Helmsley, and Thandiwe Newton as Laura Wilson.

It runs 158 minutes and was released in October 2009. Written by Harald Kloser and Roland Emmerich. It comes from Centropolis Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, and Farewell Productions.

Shelv files it under cautionary, tense, disaster, and apocalypse. American members can watch it on Hulu, Starz Apple TV channel, and YouTube TV. It scores 5.9 out of 10 from 13,157 TMDB voters and it carries a PG-13 rating.

Armageddon, Greenland, and Geostorm make useful companions to 2012, all filed under disaster movie and end of the world.