All I can say is wow, what an excellent movie! I'm sure that the fact that I have not read the book helps but I thought this was an excellent flick and my 8-year old daughter agrees.
If you've never heard of the flick welcome to the club. This film, in my opinion, had damn near blockbuster potential but there was little to no pre-marketing whatsoever. I only heard about it four days before it was released (10/10) from a guy at work who happened to catch a preview the night before.
Bill Murray plays a food-hording, crooked mayor of an underground city built to save humankind from some sort of apocolyptic event we never really hear much about. The city is meant to last 200 years but this information and the information as to how to get out of the city is lost over time. Tim Robbins plays the father of one of the kids that figure this out and try to find a way out of the city to save mankind.
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http://www.cityofember.com/XIIxOveR gives it two thumbs up!
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