Aftershock: Earthquake in New York (1999) (TV)

User Rating:

5.1/10   

Director:

Mikael Salomon

Writers (WGA):

Paul Eric Myers (teleplay) and
David Stevens (teleplay) ...

Release Date:

14 November 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Thriller | Drama

Tagline:

Terror is off the Richter scale.

Plot:

New York, the city that never sleeps, is trapped in a nightmare of horror and destruction when a massive earthquake rocks the unsuspecting city...

Plot Keywords:

Tragedy | Rock | Earthquake | New York | Urban

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations

Cast

Tom Skerritt	...	Thomas Ahearn
Sharon Lawrence	...	Dori Thorell
Charles S. Dutton	...	Mayor Bruce Lincoln
Lisa Nicole Carson	...	Evie Lincoln
Jennifer Garner	...	Diane Agostini
Rachel Ticotin	...	Elizabeth Perez
Fred Weller	...	Nicholai Karvovsky (as Frederick Weller)
Erika Eleniak	...	Jillian Parnell (as Erika Eleniak-Goglia)
Mitch Ryan	...	Frank Agostini (as Mitchell Ryan)
Cicely Tyson	...	Emily Lincoln
Mark Rolston	...	Bruce Summerlin, Co. 51
Ray J	...	Clayton
JR Bourne	...	Joshua Bingham (as J R Bourne)
Michal Suchánek	...	Danny Thorell (as Michael Suchanek)
Jerry Adler	...	Burt Hornstein

Also Known As:

Aftershock - Das große Beben (Germany)
Erdbeben-Inferno: Wenn die Welt untergeht (Germany) (rerun title)
New York - Der jüngste Tag (Germany) (DVD title)

Runtime:

170 min

Country:

USA | Germany

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Portugal:M/6 | Singapore:PG | UK:PG | USA:Unrated | Sweden:15 | USA:PG

Filming Locations:

Foo's Ho Ho Restaurant - 102 E. Pender Street, Chinatown, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Company:

Hallmark Entertainment

Trivia:

Chuck Scarborough, the author of the novel, is a veteran local news anchorman in New York City.

Watch Charlton Heston's EarthQuake (1974) Much Better!!!

The disaster films of the 1990's excluding of course " Volcano" (1997 Tommy Lee Jones.) are just downright bad the special effects are horrible and the characters are pathetic. If you are going to make a disaster film you need to make them epic. If you are going to make a movie about an Eartthquake in new York then for god's sake show New York getting destroyed. The Earthquake sequence in this movie leaves you feeling jipped when it is all over with, and then it leaves you with pathetic characters that you don't care much about for the rest of the film. Another major problem with this film and most of the disaster films of the 90's is that there is absolutely no build up what so ever. If you watch the disaster films of the 1970's there was always a feeling for the first twenty minutes or so of those films that something really bad was going to happen, an impending doom that got you more involved in those films. That is certainly not the case nowadays and especially with " Earthquake In New York". If you want to see a good disaster film most definetly watch " The Towering Inferno" or " Earthquake" and if you are interested in a more updated disaster film catch " Volcano" with Tommy Lee Jones that movie truly delivers the goods.