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  • Primer
  • Opened October 8, 2004 | Runtime:1 hr. 18 min.
  • PG-13
    brief language
  • Primer is set in the industrial park/suburban tract-home fringes of an unnamed contemporary city where two young engineers, Abe (Carruth) and Aaron (David Sullivan), are members of a small group of men who work by day for a large corporation while Read More
  • Cast: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Anand Upadhyaya, Carrie Crawford
  • Director: Shane Carruth
  • Genres: Drama, Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Suspense/Thriller

Primer Critic Reviews

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  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Consider Primer a successful lab experiment with, as they might say in techie...

  • 88
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea

    An ingenious blend of sci-fi and mystery.

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    It is maddening, fascinating and completely successful.

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    Shane Carruth's extraordinary work of shoestring speculation throws you into a...

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