| Front Cover |
Actor |
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| Shane Carruth |
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| David Sullivan (IX) |
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| Casey Gooden |
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| Anand Upadhyaya |
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| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Sci-Fi; Thriller |
| Director |
Shane Carruth |
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| Primer won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival and has drawn repeat viewers eager to crack writer-director-star Shane Carruth's puzzler of a time-travel drama. Carruth, an engineer by training, plays inventor Aaron, whose entrepreneurial partnership with fellow brainiac Abe (David Sullivan) unexpectedly results in a process for traveling back several hours in time. The men initially use these rewind sessions to succeed in the stock market. But a dark consequence of their daily journeys eventually complicates matters. If this sounds like a very commercial, science fiction thriller, Primer is anything but that. Shot on 16mm for $7,000, the film has a tantalizing, sealed-in logic, akin to Memento, that forces viewers to see the fantastic with a certain dispassion. One may be tempted to sit through Primer again to more fully understand its paradoxes and ethical quandaries. --Tom Keogh |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
87 |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| UPC |
794043784927 |
| Release Date |
4/19/2005 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen |
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