City of Ember Production: A 20th Century Fox release of a Walden Media presentation of a Playtone production. Produced by Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman, Steven Shareshian. Executive producers, John D ...

The exasperated rumble of dying machinery -- to our pampered ears, the sound of civilization ending -- is the aural backdrop of “City of Ember,” a grim fantasy about a cloistered subterranean ...

Things are going dark in the "City of Ember," and that's not a good thing. The last outpost of humanity is way, way underground, surrounded by a blackness so deep that no one dares venture beyond ...

A fabulously designed underground metropolis proves more involving than the teenagers running through its streets in "City of Ember," a good-looking but no more than serviceable adaptation of ...

City of Ember begins with the end of the world. Knowing that an unrevealed cataclysmic event (war? disease? environmental crisis?) will soon eliminate human life, a group of scientists create an ...

When the city of Ember was just built and not yet inhabited, the Chief Builder and the Assistant Builder, both of them weary, sat down to speak of the future. "They must not leave the city for at ...

For generations, the people of the City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights - underground. Built as a refuge for humanity and powered by a massive generator - this ...

"City of Ember" is a fun throwback to old-fashioned adventure movies. And yet, as a gloriously absent-of-special effects science- fiction fantasy, it feels like something pretty original for today ...