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Primer
Front Cover Actor
Brandon Blagg
Keith Bradshaw
Jay Butler (II)
Chip Carruth
John Carruth
Shane Carruth
Jon Cook
Carrie Crawford
Eric De Soualhat
Casey Gooden
Movie Details
Director Shane Carruth
Language English
Audience Rating PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time 77 mins
Country USA
Color Color
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 312
Collection Status In Collection
Links Amazon US
Product Details
Format DVD
Region Region 1
Screen Ratio 1.78:1
UPC (Barcode) 794043784927
Release Date 4/19/2005
Subtitles English; Spanish
Nr of Disks/Tapes 1