Top cast:Patrick Dempsey,Ty Olsson,Gina Gershon
Director:Christopher Nolan
Genre:Action
Region:United States
Year:2013
Storyline:There are many wonderful scenes, beginning with the snowy opening title credits.Amy (Joan Bennett) often uses amusing malapropisms: ("I know what I mean, and you needn""t be ""statirical about it! It""s proper to use good words and improve your ""vocabilary"""), and Jo""s enthusiastic favorite expression is: "Christopher Columbus!".Although he film tauted that it had made tremendous efforts to maintain historical accuracy, many viewed the film""s veracity as somewhat dubious, for example:the fact that the Hebrews were enslaved in Egypt during the period of pyramid-building has not been substantiated by archaeological evidence; both Sethi and Rameses II were not pyramid-buildersMoses"" romantic relationship with Nefretiri (who was never mentioned in the Bible) was dubiousan inaccurate claim was made by Moses that Pharaoh Sethi was victorious at Kadesh against the Amorites, although the battle was actually fought by Rameses II - against the Hittitesthe film created fictitious characters, such as Baka and Dathan, or characters with modified Biblical namesthe Parting of the Red Sea was not instantaneous - according to the Biblical account, a strong East Wind took all night to part the waters (Exodus 14:21)Other examples are found in the textual analysis below."A Los Angeles auto court sign reads: "MILBANKE MOTELS - ""All Over Los Angeles"" - Reasonable Rates by Week or Month" - it is the gang""s new hideout.Plot SynopsisThe well-known, multi-chaptered, much-celebrated, archetypal play was originally 20 episodes in length (but many have since been lost), and now only exists as nine chapters (rearranged), for a total of 214 minutes.