Flood is an adrenalin-fuelled disaster thriller, looking at the potentially devastating effects of such an event and the challenge to save the Capital! Starring Robert Carlyle (28 Weeks Later), Tom Courtenay (Nicholas Nickleby) and directed by Tony Mitchell (Supervolcano), this powerful disaster movie is available from Lionsgate UK from 29th October 2007. Flood / Day After Tomorrow DVD Boxset, the ultimate disaster movie collection will also be available from 29th October 2007. On a bright summer morning, London shines in all its glory its architecture, its iconic river... Whilst in Scotland, a hurricane crashes into the coast, devastating the sleepy town of Wick. Mountainous tides barrel mercilessly along the North Coast of Britain, heading straight for London.Returning from holiday Rob Morrison (Carlyle), head of Atlantis Engineering, is called to the Thames Barrier for a maintenance check. His ex-wife Sam (Jessalyn Gilsig), the Barriers Director of Operations, is the last person he wants to see. Meanwhile his estranged engineering genius father Professor Leonard Morrison (Courtenay) is desperately attempting to contact the Barrier High Command with a warning about the potential ineffectiveness of the structure.Upon receiving the news that a colleague has drowned during the devastation at Wick and with soaring water levels and a unique set of weather conditions closing in, Rob realises that his father’s worst predictions are about to come true.
Rob, Sam and Leonard must put aside their personal differences to mount an operation to save London from certain destruction. Lionsgate UK will unleash Flood onto DVD 29th October 2007.
Plus, the ideal gift for disaster movie fans this Christmas, Flood / Day After Tomorrow DVD Boxset, releases on 29th October 2007.
Day after Tomorrow, another highly successful and dramatic thriller stars Dennis Quaid and Jake Gyllenhaal, who with small band of survivors battle the elements as the onset of a new Ice Age sees tornadoes flattening Los Angeles and a tidal wave engulfing New York City.