The Book of Eli
A drifter fights his way across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic America while protecting a sacred book that holds the secrets to humanity's salvation.
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 1h 58m
- Released
- 2010
- Country
- United States
Details
Release year: 2010
Storyline
A drifter fights his way across a ravaged, post-apocalyptic America while protecting a sacred book that holds the secrets to humanity's salvation.
Top credits
Denzel Washington — Eli
Mila Kunis — Solara
Ray Stevenson — Redridge
Gary Oldman — Carnegie
Did you know
• The cannibals' hands shake because they suffer from Kuru disease--a form of Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease--caused by eating human brains or spinal columns. The first symptom is shaking limbs, which is why people check Eli's hands throughout the movie.
• The King James Bible is roughly 789,000 words long. To write it out longhand, at twenty to thirty words per minute, it would take roughly 31,000 minutes. Assuming the writing was done for eight hours a day, this would take 66 days to complete.
• Denzel Washington performed all of his own stunts in the hand-to-hand fight sequences.
Box Office
Gross (Domestic): $94,835,059
Opening Weekend (Domestic): $32,789,494 (2010-01-17)