City of Ember
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Gil Kenan
Bill Murray
Toby Jones
Saoirse Ronan
Tim Robbins
Martin Landau
Film Details
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Synopsis
For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights--underground. Built as a refuge for humanity and powered by a massive generator, this City will only sustain for 200 years. Now Ember is falling into darkness as the generator fails. Despite growing concern for the future of their beloved City, Ember's students find themselves confronting the next step in their lives. A rite of passage for all graduates, it is Assignment Day, the day on which the Mayor himself will stand before the graduating students as they choose, by lottery, how they will spend their lives working for their society. Lina, praying with all her might to be a messenger, is devastated to be assigned to the Pipeworks, the vast network of pipes underneath the City. Her classmate, Doon Harrow, who wants more than nothing else to work in the Generator, panics when he pulls the messenger assignment. Doon offers to swap assignments with Lina. She is thrilled and grateful and eagerly changes jobs. Thus, an unlikely friendship is born. Lina finds herself zipping all over Ember, delivering important missives to even more important people, including the mayor himself. At home she cares for her aging and forgetful grandmother, and her baby sister Poppy. When an old metal box is discovered in their closet, Lina's grandmother is overjoyed. Completely sure that the contents of the box are of the utmost importance, she is completely bereft of any memory as to why. Lina manages to jimmy the lock open, and discovers some cryptic papers inside. Unable to piece the papers together, but sure that they are important, Lina resolves to decipher their meaning and enlists Doon's help. As blackouts in the City become more frequent, Lina and Doon realize that the information inside that box could lead to the salvation of their City and their fellow citizens. Now racing against the clock, the two follow the clues, cleverly maneuvering around corrupt politicians and unsavory characters hoping to keep them from their goal: restoring the light in the City of Ember.
Director
Gil Kenan
Cast
Bill Murray
Toby Jones
Saoirse Ronan
Tim Robbins
Martin Landau
Marianne Jean-baptiste
Harry Treadaway
Mary Kay Place
Mackenzie Crook
Liz Smith
Kate Dickie
Lucinda Dryzek
Simon Kunz
Lorraine Hilton
Frankie Mccafferty
Heathcote Williams
Ann Queensberry
Catherine Quinn
Amy Quinn
David Ryall
Ian Mcelhinney
Matt Jessup
Lara Mcivor
Myles Thompson
Eoin Mcandrew
Rachel Morton
Conor Macneill
Liam Burke
Maureen Dow
Becky Stark
Brid Ni Chionaola
Mark Mulholland
Valerie O'connor
B J Hogg
Crew
Phil Adams
David Appleby
Chas Bain
Terry Bamber
Camille Benda
Jon Billington
Celia Bobak
Liz Boston
Ross Bradshaw
Shane Bunting
Lisa Byrne
Paul Cadiou
David Cain
Olivier Cauwet
Eliza Chaikan
Catherine Chase
Diana Choi
Diana Choi
Vincent Cirelli
Aron Clayton
Patrick Clayton
Julie Connor
Barry Conroy
Birgit Dierken
Nicholas Dodd
Jeanne Duprau
Eric Durst
Lindsay Fellows
Peter Field
Sue Field
William Files
Chuck Finch
Tommy Finch
James Foster
Andy Gardner
Gary Goetzman
Heather Greenlees
Xavier Pérez Grobet
Xavier Pérez Grobet
Tom Hanks
Alan Harvey
Richard Hicks
Sallie Jaye
Ashleigh Jeffers
Susie Jones
Kimberly Jorgensen
John Kirsop
Martin Laing
Daniel Leahy
Peter Lindsay
Andrew Lockington
Heather Long
Blake Maniquis
William Mcphail
Vera Mitchell
Lindsey Morrow
Ruth Myers
Shaun O'dell
Shaun O'dell
Niamh O'loan
Ray Perry
Douglas Pipes
Alistair Rae
Alistair Rae
Brendan Rankin
Stephen P Robinson
David Rubin
Annabel Schofield
John D Schofield
John D Schofield
Alex Schwartz
Adam P Scott
Steven Shareshian
Bonnie Solomon
Zach Staenberg
Bruce Stambler
Michael Standish
Gail Stevens
Michael Stevenson
Becky Sullivan
Gary Summers
Caroline Thompson
Michael Tinger
Aisling Toner
Kit West
Ian Young
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Fall October 10, 2008
Released in United States on Video January 20, 2009
Based on the novel "The City of Ember" written by Jeanne DuPrau; published by Random House Books for Young Readers May 13, 2003.
Playtone paid mid-six figures for film rights to the book, which includes an option on a sequel novel.
Released in United States Fall October 10, 2008
Released in United States on Video January 20, 2009
