Disaster movies often turn familiar places into scenes of spectacular destruction, and few Hollywood productions make that spectacle feel quite as enormous as this science-fiction blockbuster. Years after its theatrical success, this film starring Jake Gyllenhaal is getting another opportunity to reach fans, bringing its large-scale catastrophe back to Netflix audiences.
Jack Gyllenhaal-led The Day After Tomorrow will stream on Netflix next month
According to What’s on Netflix, the streaming service will add The Day After Tomorrow to its library on November 1, giving viewers at home another chance to watch the 2004 release. Director Roland Emmerich, known for large-scale disaster films, helmed the project, while 20th Century Fox distributed it theatrically. Mark Gordon and Emmerich produced the movie.
Dennis Quaid stars as Jack Hall, a climatologist caught in a race against a global weather disaster, while Jake Gyllenhaal portrays his son, Sam. Emmy Rossum, Sela Ward, and Ian Holm round out the cast. As devastating storms and plunging temperatures push humanity toward collapse, Jack risks everything to reach Sam in New York City, where conditions are rapidly worsening.
With a reported production budget of $125 million, The Day After Tomorrow brought in roughly $552.6 million at the global box office, according to Box Office Mojo. The film’s worldwide haul far exceeded its production costs, rendering it a massive commercial hit.
On IMDb, it holds a 6.5/10 rating, while Rotten Tomatoes lists scores of 46% from critics and 50% from audiences. Some took issue with the awkward dialogue, but the film’s eye-catching effects and city-swallowing destruction gave fans the kind of big-screen spectacle that makes disaster movies crowd-pleasing. Fans especially loved the movie’s enormous weather effects and images of a frozen New York.
Clocking in at roughly 124 minutes, the disaster thriller earned a PG-13 rating for its intense scenes of danger. Roland Emmerich teamed up with Jeffrey Nachmanoff to write the script, while Harald Kloser worked on the film’s musical score.
