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Primer (2004)
6.9
Ratings: 6.9/10 from 25,134 users
Metascore:
68/100
Reviews: 274 user | 121 critic | 25 from Metacritic.com
Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention. Director:Shane CarruthWriter:Shane Carruth |
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| Shane Carruth | ... |
Aaron
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Abe
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Robert
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| Anand Upadhyaya | ... |
Phillip
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Carrie Crawford | ... |
Kara
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Jay Butler | ... |
Metalshop Worker
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John Carruth | ... |
Man On Couch #1
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Juan Tapia | ... |
Man On Couch #2
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Ashley Warren | ... |
Hostess
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Rachel Granger
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Chip Carruth | ... |
Thomas Granger
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Delaney Price | ... |
Laney
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Jack Pyland | ... |
Aaron's Co-worker
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Keith Bradshaw | ... |
Clean Room Technician
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Ashok Upadhyaya | ... |
Laboratory Technician
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Storyline
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? Written by Sujit R. Varma
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Találmány See more »Box Office
Budget:
$7,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$28,162 (USA) (10 October 2004) (4 Screens)Gross:
$424,760 (USA) (19 December 2004)Company Credits
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Aaron: [Sound of a phone ringing. Aaron, voiceover:] Here's what's going to happen. I'm gonna read this, and you're gonna listen, and you're gonna stay on the line. And you're not gonna interrupt, and you're not gonna speak for any reason. Some of this you know. I'm gonna start at the top of the page.
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Aaron: Meticulous, yes. Methodical, educated; they were these things. Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied. There were days of mistakes and laziness and in-fighting, and there were days, good days, when by anyone's judgment they would have to be considered clever. No one would say that what they were doing was complicated. It wouldn't even be considered new, except for maybe in the geological sense. They took from their surroundings what was needed and made of it something more.
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The budget for the entire film was around $7000. Most of the money was spent on film stock. See more »Goofs
Revealing mistakes: During numerous takes the director, Shane Carruth, mutters "cut" under his breath. According to the DVD commentary, this is due to their extremely low budget which did not allow them to "waste" film. Carruth notes that a total of 80 minutes of footage was shot; the final film is 78 minutes. See more »Quotes
[first lines]Aaron: [Sound of a phone ringing. Aaron, voiceover:] Here's what's going to happen. I'm gonna read this, and you're gonna listen, and you're gonna stay on the line. And you're not gonna interrupt, and you're not gonna speak for any reason. Some of this you know. I'm gonna start at the top of the page.
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Aaron: Meticulous, yes. Methodical, educated; they were these things. Nothing extreme. Like anyone, they varied. There were days of mistakes and laziness and in-fighting, and there were days, good days, when by anyone's judgment they would have to be considered clever. No one would say that what they were doing was complicated. It wouldn't even be considered new, except for maybe in the geological sense. They took from their surroundings what was needed and made of it something more.
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Thanks to Scott Douglass for having the faith to invest in the final stagesof marketing and post production See more »
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