After an earthquake hits New York City, a policeman races to find his missing family members while pursuing a dangerous serial killer, and aids in rescue procedures.After an earthquake hits New York City, a policeman races to find his missing family members while pursuing a dangerous serial killer, and aids in rescue procedures.After an earthquake hits New York City, a policeman races to find his missing family members while pursuing a dangerous serial killer, and aids in rescue procedures.
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Melissa Sue Anderson
- Dr. Marilyn Blake
- (as Melissa Anderson)
Bryn McAuley
- Carla Rykker
- (as Bryan McAuley)
Stavroula Logothettis
- Susan
- (as Stavroulla Logothettis)
David Keeley
- Detective McArthur
- (as David Keeler)
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Just finished watching this mercilessly horrid waste of time.
Movie summary: an hour of bad acting, an earthquake, a second hour of bad acting while walking in circles around the same pile of rubble.
Michael Moriarty clearly wanted to be somewhere--ANYWHERE--but on the set of this "movie." Either that or he was preoccupied with the most unremarkable, tepid, and mundane sentences any actor could be unfortunate enough to deliver. The poor guy couldn't even manage to take his hands out of his pockets, he was so bored.
The Statue of Liberty scenes are excruciating. I've seen better CG on Half-Life. I kept rooting for that whole mess of snotty teenagers to fall to their deaths. Dig that dude asking the girl out on a date WHILE TRYING TO AVOID DYING IN AN EARTHQUAKE! Yeah, RIGHT.
And how about the shameless plugs for mindless patriotism? That wistful, admiring gaze up at the replica of the torch inside the base of the Statue of Liberty, and mommy singing "The Star Spangled Banner" to her little girl who's trapped under a pile of rubble (unscathed, mind you...just trapped.) And by the way, someone explain to me HOW IN GOD'S NAME the doll which she had just been holding ended up ON TOP of the pile of rubble beneath which the kid was now trapped?
Seal this one up in a barrel marked HAZARDOUS and drop it in the same landfill with ASTEROID and TORNADO.
Movie summary: an hour of bad acting, an earthquake, a second hour of bad acting while walking in circles around the same pile of rubble.
Michael Moriarty clearly wanted to be somewhere--ANYWHERE--but on the set of this "movie." Either that or he was preoccupied with the most unremarkable, tepid, and mundane sentences any actor could be unfortunate enough to deliver. The poor guy couldn't even manage to take his hands out of his pockets, he was so bored.
The Statue of Liberty scenes are excruciating. I've seen better CG on Half-Life. I kept rooting for that whole mess of snotty teenagers to fall to their deaths. Dig that dude asking the girl out on a date WHILE TRYING TO AVOID DYING IN AN EARTHQUAKE! Yeah, RIGHT.
And how about the shameless plugs for mindless patriotism? That wistful, admiring gaze up at the replica of the torch inside the base of the Statue of Liberty, and mommy singing "The Star Spangled Banner" to her little girl who's trapped under a pile of rubble (unscathed, mind you...just trapped.) And by the way, someone explain to me HOW IN GOD'S NAME the doll which she had just been holding ended up ON TOP of the pile of rubble beneath which the kid was now trapped?
Seal this one up in a barrel marked HAZARDOUS and drop it in the same landfill with ASTEROID and TORNADO.
Earthquake in New York is an irregular film with a poor special effects but this film is salved by the presence of Melissa Sue Anderson, she is a great actress and she is perfect like Marilyn Blake. The movie had been better if Melissa had been the star. The TV-series, "Aftershock: Earthquake in New York" is better although Melissa don' t appear.
I love this movie its New York whats not to love. Does anyone know where i can purchase hits movie please
This is an awful movie. Avoid at all costs. The effects are terrible, plot is unoriginal, and acting isn't all that great. All in all terrible movie. You really shouldn't waste your time on this poor excuse for an action film. While watching I kept thinking how stupid the movie was and how fake the effects were. The silly poor effects distract you from the silly poor storyline. You can't help but think what a stupid movie this is.
While it's not the worst disaster movie I seen, but it still not good. There barely any story in this other people trying to survive a earthquake and saving people. The opening is something that I didn't see coming over what happen, but the whole topic about losing someone due to a disaster feels like a afterthought and isn't expand on that much. Also, some of the plotlines feels like it was forgotten like the serial killer plotline doesn't go anywhere interesting and ends very quickly. Even the Statue of Library disaster is barely in the movie and is forgotten about until near the end of the movie. The characters themselves are rather boring and bland throughout the movie. And the acting itself is pretty stale.
The disaster scenes are mostly ok with decent tension during it and some alright disaster set pieces. But the CGI looks pretty bad and is something from a PlayStation 2 game.
Overall, it's a mediocre disaster movie that is poorly put together.
The disaster scenes are mostly ok with decent tension during it and some alright disaster set pieces. But the CGI looks pretty bad and is something from a PlayStation 2 game.
Overall, it's a mediocre disaster movie that is poorly put together.
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- TriviaThe film premiered on the Fox Family Channel at Sunday October 11, 1998 at 8:00 p.m. eastern time.
- Quotes
Carla Rykker: [Laura and John kiss] Hey, you guys are kissing!
Laura Rykker: Yeah, and you'd better get used to it, kid.
Carla Rykker: Cool.
- Alternate versionsThe BBFC made cuts to secure a '12' rating for the home video release.
- ConnectionsEdited from Money Train (1995)
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- Quake NYC: 8.2
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