City of Ember is a science fiction film directed by Gil Kenan and based on the 2003 novel, The City of Ember by Jeanne Duprau. Two teenagers, Lina Mayfleet and Doon Harrow, live in the City of Ember, an underground city built to house a human community for 200 years as a shelter from an unspecified disaster. Having long since passed the 200-year mark, Ember's food supplies are becoming depleted and blackouts are increasingly frequent and longer lasting as the generator that powers the city has deteriorated and is held together with patchwork. When Lina and Doon graduate from school, they begin jobs assigned to them by a random drawing. Lina and Doon soon realize that Ember's situation is even direr than they had suspected. With the city's adult population largely apathetic or cowed by the corrupt mayor, Lina and Doon search for the clues that Ember's Builders left to show the citizens of the city how to save themselves before a permanent darkness falls.

release year: 2008

star(s): Bill Murray    Tim Robbins