Absolute Zero (film)

Absolute Zero is a 2005 American Sci-Fi film written by Sarah Watson and directed by Robert Lee, starring Jeff Fahey and Erika Eleniak. The film is about polar shift which brings a new ice age in Florida.

Plot

David Koch (Jeff Fahey), a climatologist employed by Inter Sci proposes a theory that the last ice age was triggered by Earth's polar shift in a single day. When unusually cold weather strikes Miami and the birds start to return from the south a few months earlier he is sent to Antarctic to find out what is happening.

Once there, he discovers a frozen body of a human which is at least 10,000 years old. What is interesting is his appearance - as he would be instantly frozen in place. He also discovers cave paintings that show the Sun falling down. A sudden blizzard then destroys a base camp and kills some members of his team.

Back in Miami, he presents his findings to his co-workers and his boss. He claims that another polar shift is only a couple of hours away and the new ice age is inevitable. However, nobody believes him. According to the current theories the shifting of the poles should last at least 200 years so the climate changes (if any) wouldn't appear overnight. David's one-time love Bryn (Erika Eleniak) supports his theory with numerous stories about the falling sun followed by a darkness and terrible cold.
When the weather in Miami starts getting colder and colder the evacuation is ordered and the people start to move to the north. David, Bryn and a group of people miss the chance to escape and their only hope is to hide in a special room at Inter Sci. In a couple of hours temperatures drop to absolute zero (- 273°C) turning Florida and Miami to ice desert.

They manage to survive although everything is frozen outside the room. When the polar shift is over and the Sun appears again they are rescued.

As a consequence of polar shift many people die and the world's climate changes completely - Florida is completely frozen, Canada and Siberia become hot deserts; Grenland, Iceland, Northern Europe and New York have now tropical climate.

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0451998/ Absolute Zero at IMDB]