Repeaters

2011 1h 29m EN

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5.8

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★5.8TMDB · 199

DramaActionCrimeScience Fiction

Synopsis

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A gritty mind-bending thriller about three twenty-somethings who find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Dustin Milligan
Kyle Halsted
Amanda Crew
Sonia Logan
Richard de Klerk
Michael Weeks
Alexia Fast
Charlotte Halsted
Anja Savcic
Michelle
Gabrielle Rose
Peg Halsted
Hrothgar Mathews
Ed Logan
Ben Immanuel
Bob Simpson

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Carl Bessai
Writers: Arne Olsen
Languages: English
Countries: Canada

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RUNTIME

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89 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.

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2 / 7

MONEY

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Shot for just $1.6M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.

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3 / 7

ERA

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Released 15 years ago.

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4 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Carl Bessai, shot by Carl Bessai. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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5 / 7

DIRECTOR

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Editor Mark Shearer shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 7

CAST

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Dustin Milligan and Amanda Crew and Richard de Klerk carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 7

WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1580426 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Carl Bessai directs. Carl Bessai behind the camera. Mark Shearer cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Canada. Dialogue in English.

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189 minutes exactly — the "classic feature" runtime most directors aim for.
2Shot for just $1.6M — micro-budget by Hollywood standards.
3Released 15 years ago.
4Directed by Carl Bessai, shot by Carl Bessai. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
5Editor Mark Shearer shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Dustin Milligan and Amanda Crew and Richard de Klerk carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt1580426 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography: Carl Bessai
Editing: Mark Shearer
Production design: Hank Mann
Costume design: Miles Roberts
Makeup / hair: Krista Seller
VFX supervisor: Adam Stern
Sound: Greg Stewart
Stunt coordinator: Garvin Cross
Runtime: 89 min · 1h 29m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $1,600,000
Original language: EN
IMDB: Repeaters (2011)

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Kamurai2020-09-13
★ 6/10
Good watch at best, probably won't watch again, but can recommend for time-shift loop fans ("Groundhog's Day"). I was all excited to stumble into another tim-shift loop movie, with Amanda Palmer no less. She's wildly underrated as an actress, mostly to having (probably) the worst role written on "Silicon Valley". This movie is basically "Groundhog's Day" for drug addicts. While the protagonist in the other movie was an egotistical jerk, he wasn't an evil person, but this movie decides to "Chronicle" with it and go with a "might makes right attitude" with one of the characters. The idea of an infinite war is actually pretty boring, and I think getting up everyday to run around shooting and raping people would grow old pretty fast. Usually the "high" of doing things like that is that you're taking agency to overcome rules and you're "special" because you're getting away with something other people won't. Usually there is also only one protagonist experiencing the loop because it gets funny when multiple people are looping ("Paradise Falls" actually does a good version of it.), and this movie doesn't make it fun. In fact, what could have been a fun, hilarious, and impressive movie actually really takes a hit for wanting to be dark and dirty when it really didn't need to be. Normally something like that adds substance and power to the movie, but I felt like it was just taxing to deal with. It didn't play into the plot heavily enough that it would have been a different movie without it, and it cheaply uses rape as a throwaway to example the character's removal from civil behavior. Those points aside, I really think this is a good movie, and I'm just more upset that it isn't a great movie.

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