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Directed by Shane Carruth
United States, 2004
Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller

Synopsis

Abe and Aaron are two young engineers who work in an anonymous city for a large corporation and who, in their spare time, conduct their own scientific experiments in their garage. While working on a new device, the two discover an extraordinary side-effect that allows them to manipulate time.

Synopsis

Abe and Aaron are two young engineers who work in an anonymous city for a large corporation and who, in their spare time, conduct their own scientific experiments in their garage. While working on a new device, the two discover an extraordinary side-effect that allows them to manipulate time.

Our take

Proving that all you need to make a movie is a killer imagination, first-time director Shane Carruth was impossible to ignore with this eerie, low-budget mind-bender. A thriller of time travel gone awry, it won the top prize at Sundance in 2004—and theories about it still burn up the internet!