Director: Gil Kenan

Writer: Caroline Thompson

From novel: The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau

Keywords: Fantasy

Film adaptation of the 2003 novel of the same name follows two teens as they race to save their utopian city from catastrophic ruin.

ABSTRACT
Scientists living during humanity's end times stave off total extinction by creating a city beneath the surface of the Earth. The blueprint for the city, named Ember, is rather simple: Ember will exist for two hundred years, at which point its leaders will act on instructions to return to the surface. The instructions are lost to time as the years wear on; now, as Ember's time is almost up and its miraculous power system shows signs of an impending critical failure, two teenagers must work to uncover the lost plans for escape and save their people.

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mackenzie Crook	Actor	29-Sep-1971		Gareth Keenan on The Office
Marianne Jean-Baptiste	Actor	26-Apr-1967		Without a Trace
Toby Jones	Actor	7-Sep-1967		Voice of Dobby the Elf
Martin Landau	Actor	20-Jun-1931	15-Jul-2017	Mission: Impossible
Bill Murray	Actor	21-Sep-1950		Meatballs, SNL alumnus
Mary Kay Place	Actor	23-Sep-1947		Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
Tim Robbins	Actor	16-Oct-1958		The Player, Jacob's Ladder
Saoirse Ronan	Actor	12-Apr-1994		Atonement
Liz Smith	Actor	11-Dec-1921	24-Dec-2016	The Royle Family

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