Release calendarTop 250 moviesMost popular moviesBrowse movies by genreTop box officeShowtimes & ticketsMovie newsIndia movie spotlight
    What's on TV & streamingTop 250 TV showsMost popular TV showsBrowse TV shows by genreTV news
    What to watchLatest trailersIMDb OriginalsIMDb PicksIMDb SpotlightFamily entertainment guideIMDb Podcasts
    OscarsEmmysToronto Int'l Film FestivalHispanic Heritage MonthIMDb Stars to WatchSTARmeter AwardsAwards CentralFestival CentralAll events
    Born todayMost popular celebsCelebrity news
    Help centerContributor zonePolls
For industry professionals
  • Language
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Watchlist
Sign in
  • Fully supported
  • English (United States)
    Partially supported
  • Français (Canada)
  • Français (France)
  • Deutsch (Deutschland)
  • हिंदी (भारत)
  • Italiano (Italia)
  • Português (Brasil)
  • Español (España)
  • Español (México)
Use app
Episode guide
  • Cast & crew
  • User reviews
  • Trivia
  • FAQ
IMDbPro

10.5

  • TV Mini Series
  • 2004
  • Unrated
  • 1h 23m
IMDb RATING
4.6/10
4.1K
YOUR RATING
Beau Bridges and Kim Delaney in 10.5 (2004)
10.5
Play trailer2:17
1 Video
43 Photos
ActionAdventureDramaSci-FiThriller

An earthquake reaching a 10.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, strikes the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. A large portion of land falls into the ocean, and the situation is worsened by af... Read allAn earthquake reaching a 10.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, strikes the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. A large portion of land falls into the ocean, and the situation is worsened by aftershocks and tsunami.An earthquake reaching a 10.5 magnitude on the Richter scale, strikes the west coast of the U.S. and Canada. A large portion of land falls into the ocean, and the situation is worsened by aftershocks and tsunami.

  • Stars
    • Kim Delaney
    • Fred Ward
    • Ivan Sergei
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    4.6/10
    4.1K
    YOUR RATING
    • Stars
      • Kim Delaney
      • Fred Ward
      • Ivan Sergei
    • 174User reviews
    • 7Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy
      • 1 win & 3 nominations total

    Episodes2

    Browse episodes
    TopTop-rated1 season2004

    Videos1

    10.5
    Trailer 2:17
    10.5

    Photos42

    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    View Poster
    + 38
    View Poster

    Top cast62

    Edit
    Kim Delaney
    Kim Delaney
    • Dr. Samantha Hill
    • 2004
    Fred Ward
    Fred Ward
    • Roy Nolan, FEMA Director
    • 2004
    Ivan Sergei
    Ivan Sergei
    • Dr. Zack Nolan
    • 2004
    Dulé Hill
    Dulé Hill
    • Dr. Owen Hunter
    • 2004
    Beau Bridges
    Beau Bridges
    • President Paul Hollister
    • 2004
    John Schneider
    John Schneider
    • Clark Williams
    • 2004
    Kaley Cuoco
    Kaley Cuoco
    • Amanda Williams
    • 2004
    Rebecca Jenkins
    Rebecca Jenkins
    • Governor Carla Williams
    • 2004
    David Cubitt
    David Cubitt
    • Dr. Jordan Fisher
    • 2004
    Brian Markinson
    Brian Markinson
    • Daniel, Hollister's Advisor
    • 2004
    John Cassini
    John Cassini
    • Sean Morris, Hollister's Aide
    • 2004
    Kim Hawthorne
    Kim Hawthorne
    • Jill Hunter
    • 2004
    Jill Krop
    • Anchor #1
    • 2004
    Marrett Green
    • Anchor #2
    • 2004
    Dagmar Midcap
    • Anchor #3
    • 2004
    Marke Driesschen
    • Anchor #4
    • 2004
    David Berner
    • Reporter #1
    • 2004
    Claire Riley
    • Reporter #2
    • 2004
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

    User reviews174

    4.64.1K
    1
    2
    3
    4
    5
    6
    7
    8
    9
    10

    Featured reviews

    jcolbert-2

    Execrable.. bad.. dumb.. etc.

    Taped it, since I had my doubts beforehand. Good thing too. Just zapping the ads out knocked about 45 minutes off the 4 hour run time. Fast forwarding through some of the drek knocked another hour off.

    The science was retarded. If their stupid little idea of nukes would have had half a chance of doing what they said it was doing, it would have required hundreds of them, not 6, and they would have had to been thousands of feet under ground, not hundreds. I don't know why I should be bothered about that as it makes as much sense as arguing the "science" in Star Trek.

    Phones that still worked when convenient to the "plot".

    It had every cliche known to man and monkey. "Marshal Law" (Is that Jude Law's brother?)

    I gave it a 2 instead of a 1 because the little bit of footage they had of things falling down was done pretty well.
    stan-62

    Funny, if you like bad disaster movies

    They had a preview screening of this for my office. I work with a bunch of seismologists, and the overall consensus was that when it came to the science, they got *everything* wrong. The room was full of people laughing uproariously at one howler after another. The special effects were pretty good, but the acting was kind of hard to take. Too melodramatic. And not just the science was wrong. The bit that kind of summed it up was a scene where a TV news report was showing a banner that the President had declared 'marshal law'. Don't the writers have a dictionary? Anyway, if you like bad disaster movies, this is entertaining. But it's pure fantasy, and not at all an accurate portrayal.
    CelluloiDiva

    Deliciously, Laughably Bad

    It was obvious in the opening credit sequence that "10.5" was going to be one doozy of a stinker. The cyclist outracing the collapsing Space Needle - how contrived, how ridiculous, how utterly physically impossible to ride a bicycle during an earthquake so tremendous.

    This movie is so bad, it "MST's" itself!

    There are so many gaps in logic, fact and production, it's impossible to keep up with them. Cheesy "effects" (that train was soooo obviously a model!), preposterous plot, lousy continuity and terrible timing (yeah, right - Science Chick and Doubting Guy DRIVE from LA to Redding and back in the same afternoon and, oh yeah, neither one of them gets dirty...). However, my absolute favorite gaffe in the movie comes in the first minutes of Part 2, in which a newscaster is detailing the arrival of troops in San Franciso. Across the bottom of the "news crawler" is the phrase "Marshal Law". What, did Marshal Faulk and Ty Law have a baby? When the military takes over local control, kids, it's called MARTIAL Law!! The fact that the editorial and production teams did not catch this simple error is, to me, indicative of their overall approach to this, ah, er, um, film. It seems painfully obvious that the entire company - actors, writers, gaffers, prop masters, everyone - have no respect for the movie they're making.

    It is a great mystery how a bit of dreck such as this can get made, especially by network television, which is notoriously conservative. Rank this turd up there with "Atomic Train" and "Tidal Wave" - the only thing missing from "10.5" is an impassioned performance from Corbin Bernson.

    A rank pile o' poo, but so much fun to watch! 1/2* out of *****
    2isleofdawn

    Kept Waiting For It To Get Better, It Didn't

    Ouch. This was painful to watch. I am fascinated with humans trying to overcome potential disasters, i.e. Armageddon, Deep Impact and Twister. However, this disaster movie was a disaster. The guy riding from the space needle and the train getting engulfed by the fissure were ridiculous. I kept hoping there would be a change in plot that would make this better, but it kept getting worse. So much was just not believable. To me it was like watching most people on American Idol. It was so bad, it was fascinating. The other funny thing was nobody had a good relationship at the start of the movie. All the main characters that had relationships were having a rough go of it. Doesn't ANYONE have a good relationship anymore?
    2erosen

    god help us all

    I pray this isn't the future of TV drama. I had to laugh at the opening scene where a guy on a bike manages to dodge every piece of falling debris, including the entire Seattle Tower. Maybe after that it turns into a decent suspense movie, I can't tell because the quick cuts and jerky in-and-out zooming is not only distracting me from what the characters are saying, it is physically making me nauseous and I have to turn it off. They don't pull off the attempt at the NYPD-Blue (maybe it was Kim Delaney's idea?) camcorder style. It's like watching Cribs on MTV, not one shot is long enough for you to see what is going on. It's just frustrating and annoying. This movie should be shown to film classes as an example of what NOT to do.

    More like this

    10.5: Apocalypse
    4.5
    10.5: Apocalypse
    Airport '77
    5.8
    Airport '77
    Category 6: Day of Destruction
    5.2
    Category 6: Day of Destruction
    10.0 Earthquake
    3.5
    10.0 Earthquake
    Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
    5.3
    Aftershock: Earthquake in New York
    Airport
    6.6
    Airport
    Category 7: The End of the World
    4.5
    Category 7: The End of the World
    A Bridge Too Far
    7.4
    A Bridge Too Far
    Transporter 3
    6.1
    Transporter 3
    Category 5
    3.9
    Category 5
    Earthquake
    6.6
    Earthquake
    CAT. 8
    4.5
    CAT. 8

    Related interests

    Bruce Willis in Die Hard (1988)
    Action
    Still frame
    Adventure
    Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in Moonlight (2016)
    Drama
    James Earl Jones and David Prowse in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
    Sci-Fi
    Cho Yeo-jeong in Parasite (2019)
    Thriller

    Storyline

    Edit

    Did you know

    Edit
    • Trivia
      The filmmakers never received permission to use the trademarked name "Space Needle." In order to circumvent this, it is spelled "Spaceneedle" when it appears in the film.
    • Goofs
      A 10.5 earthquake as represented in the movie, would actually be much larger than depicted. People would not be able to walk around so freely as they are doing (at a 10.5, the levels of sight and sound would be distorted). Damage would also be total, damaging much more than shown (the destruction would also reach areas as far away as Michigan or possibly even New York).
    • Quotes

      President Paul Hollister: When the left hand finally realizes what the right hand is doing, it's exploded in all of our faces.

    • Connections
      Followed by 10.5: Apocalypse (2006)
    • Soundtracks
      Tired of Being Played
      by BossHouse

    Top picks

    Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations
    Sign in

    FAQ19

    • How many seasons does 10.5 have?Powered by Alexa

    Details

    Edit
    • Release date
      • May 2, 2004 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • 10.5: Apocalypse
    • Filming locations
      • Hollywood Sign, Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies
      • Argosy Productions Limited
      • Dogwood Pictures
      • Jaffe/Braunstein Films
    • See more company credits at IMDbPro

    Tech specs

    Edit
    • Runtime
      • 1h 23m(83 min)
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

    Contribute to this page

    Suggest an edit or add missing content
    • Learn more about contributing
    Edit pageAdd episode

    More to explore

    Recently viewed

    Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more.
    Get the IMDb App
    Sign in for more accessSign in for more access
    Follow IMDb on social
    Get the IMDb App
    For Android and iOS
    Get the IMDb App
    • Help
    • Site Index
    • IMDbPro
    • Box Office Mojo
    • License IMDb Data
    • Press Room
    • Advertising
    • Jobs
    • Conditions of Use
    • Privacy Policy
    • Your Ads Privacy Choices
    IMDb, an Amazon company

    © 1990-2025 by IMDb.com, Inc.