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City of Ember is a 2008 American science fantasy adventure film based on the 2003 novel The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. Directed by Gil Kenan in his live-action directorial debut, the film stars Saoirse Ronan, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray, Mackenzie Crook, Martin Landau, Mary Kay Place, Toby Jones, and Tim Robbins.
The City of Ember is a post-apocalyptic novel by Jeanne DuPrau that was published in 2003. The story is about Ember, a post-apocalyptic underground city threatened by aging infrastructure and corruption.
City of Ember: Directed by Gil Kenan. With Saoirse Ronan, David Ryall, Harry Treadaway, Bill Murray. For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights.
- (70K)
- Adventure, Drama, Family
- Gil Kenan
- 2008-10-10
Chronic supply shortages and blackouts ravish the city, which is devoid of any natural light, while a deadly coughing disease plagues its populace. Ember’s surviving citizens, largely impoverished and often consumed by total darkness, live in fear and sense impending doom.
When mankind is about to come to an end, a group of scientists decide to create and populate a city deep underground. The City of Ember is to last for 200 years, after which its inhabitants are to retrieve from a strong box instructions to return to the surface.
The City of Ember falls into a subcategory of science fiction and adventure fiction known as subterranean fiction, or fictional works that focus on life underground. The genre has its roots in the disproved 17th-century Hollow Earth theory, which proposed that the Earth is actually hollow.
The main conflict in The City of Ember is the city itself. Its resources are dwindling and the city is dying, and Doon knows this but feel powerless to stop it, which causes him great internal strife.
