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28/03/2003 Science Fiction, Adventure, Thriller 2h 16m
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The only way out is in.

Overview

Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the planet's magnetic field rapidly deteriorating, our atmosphere literally starts to come apart at the seams with catastrophic consequences. To resolve the crisis, Keyes, along with a team of the world's most gifted scientists, travel into the earth's core. Their mission: detonate a device that will reactivate the core.

  1. Jon Amiel

    Director

  2. Cooper Layne

    Writer

  3. John Rogers

    Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Aaron Eckhart

    Dr. Josh Keyes

  2. Hilary Swank

    Maj. Rebecca Childs

  3. Delroy Lindo

    Dr. Ed 'Braz' Brazzleton

  4. Stanley Tucci

    Dr. Conrad Zimsky

  5. Tchéky Karyo

    Serge

  6. DJ Qualls

    Theodore Donald 'Rat' Finch

  7. Richard Jenkins

    Gen. Thomas Purcell

  8. Bruce Greenwood

    Cmdr. Robert Iverson

  9. Christopher Shyer

    Dave Perry

  10. View more

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Reviews

A review by RalphRahal
Written by RalphRahal on 2025-04-24
The Core might not win any awards for scientific accuracy, and sure, the premise alone invites every kind of eye-roll, but what it does deliver is something we’ve been losing fast in today’s cinematic landscape: original storytelling that doesn't try to go viral or squeeze itself into a franchise mold. It’s from that 2000 to 2010 cultural crossroads, before everything became about metrics and trend-chasing. This was when movies still dared to be weird, flawed, ambitious, and most importantly, human. It has all the hallmarks of that era where studios were still funding original scripts, e...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$60,000,000.00

Revenue
$74,208,267.00

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