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Primer (2004) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Fantasporto Awards
Sundance Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
77 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2004 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Shane Carruth

Written By:
Shane Carruth

Actors:
Shane Carruth ..... Aaron
David Sullivan ..... Abe
Casey Gooden ..... Robert
Anand Upadhyaya ..... Phillip
Carrie Crawford ..... Kara
Jay Butler ..... Metalshop Worker
John Carruth ..... Man On Couch #1
Juan Tapia ..... Man On Couch #2
Ashley Warren ..... Hostess
Samantha Thomson ..... Rachel Granger
Chip Carruth ..... Thomas Granger
Delaney Price ..... Laney
Jack Pyland ..... Aaron's Co-worker
Keith Bradshaw ..... Clean Room Technician
Ashok Upadhyaya ..... Laboratory Technician

Synopsis:

The debut feature from filmmaker Shane Carruth - who wrote, directed, photographed, edited, scored, and stars - Primer is a psychological sci-fi thriller about a group of four tech entrepreneurs. Toiling away in a garage, the quartet have successfully created error-checking systems for their clients. But their recent work seems to have created an unexpected and seemingly impossible side-effect. Suddenly, two members of the group realize they are in possession of a device that can double, or perhaps even quadruple, the space-time continuum of anything that enters it. What at first seems like a windfall of astronomical proportions eventually proves to be much more than they bargained for, as the duo attempt to manipulate time to their financial - and emotional - benefit. Also starring Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya, and Carrie Crawford, Primer premiered at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the coveted Grand Jury Prize for dramatic film.

Experimental science fiction drama set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe and Aaron, are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while conducting extracurricular experiments on their own time in a garage. While tweaking their current project, a device that reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it by blocking gravitational pull, they accidentally discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.

At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices. But, they know that there is something more. There is some idea, some mechanism, some accidental side effect that is standing between them and a pure leap of innovation. And so, through trial and error they are building the device that is missing most. However, two of these men find the device and immediately realize that it is too valuable to market. The limit of their trust in each other is strained when they are faced with the question, If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?

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