City of Ember [DVD]

Daughter loves it

Really good story bought for my grandson of 7 years old but enjoyed by all the family. Good speedy service and excellent value for money.

Many years ago engineers built an underground city so that human life could continue, the surface would be no longer able to do so.'Ember city' was built to last 200 years, each generation of mayor's would pass down a sealed chest holding the secrets of how to return to the surface when the time was right, the 7th mayor died before he could pass it on, so the small sealed chest bacame lost.The 200 hundred year period has long past the systems were failing and food was becoming scarce, the only person that this was not affecting was the current mayor who had a secret hoard of food.The box is found by accident by a teenager who with a friend try to discover the message within which will lead them to the earth's surface and save the community.This is an entertaining futuristic family film that's certainly worth seeing.