  the day after tomorrow is a 2004 american climate fiction-disaster film co-written, directed, and produced by roland emmerich and starring dennis quaid, jake gyllenhaal, ian holm, emmy rossum, and sela ward. the film depicts fictional catastrophic climatic effects in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and leads to a new ice age. the film was made in toronto and montreal and is the highest-grossing hollywood film to be made in canada (if adjusted for inflation). originally planned for release in the summer of 2003, the day after tomorrow premiered in mexico city on may 17, 2004 and was released worldwide from may 26 to may 28 except in south korea and japan, where it was released june 4â5, respectively. ==plot== in antarctica, paleoclimatologist jack hall and his partners frank and jason are drilling for ice-core samples on the larsen ice shelf for the noaa when the ice breaks apart. later, jack presents his findings on global warming at a united nations conference in new delhi, but fails to convince diplomats or vice president of the united states raymond becker. however, professor terry rapson of the hedland climate research centre in scotland believes in jack's theories. several buoys in the north atlantic simultaneously show a massive drop in the ocean temperature, and rapson concludes that melting polar ice has started to disrupt the north atlantic current. he contacts jack, whose paleoclimatological weather model shows how climate changes caused the first ice age. his team, along with nasa's meteorologist janet tokada, builds a forecast model. across the world, violent weather causes mass destruction. u.s. president
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