M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. In October 1959, a new elementary school in Lexington celebrates its opening with a competition in which students draw what they believe will happen in the future. One student, Lucinda Embry, fills her paper with a series of numbers while being guided by whispering voices. Knowing: Directed by Alex Proyas. With Nicolas Cage, Chandler Canterbury, Rose Byrne, Lara Robinson. M.I.T. professor John Koestler links a mysterious list of numbers from a time capsule to past and future disasters and sets out to prevent the ultimate catastrophe. "Knowing" is a science-fiction thriller movie that follows the life of John Koestler (Nicolas Cage) as he discovers a coded message that has predicted all of Earth's disasters in the last 50 years. The film begins in 1959, where a schoolgirl creates a drawing of events that will happen in the future, and her school buries the drawings in a time capsule. In 2009, the time capsule is dug up, and John's son, Caleb (Chandler Canterbury), receives the girl's drawing. John, an astrophysicist, soon ...