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Project Almanac (2015)

PG-13 | | Sci-Fi, Thriller | 30 January 2015 (USA)
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A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

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Dr. Lou
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Sarah Nathan
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Marina
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Courtney Bowers ...
Jess' Friend
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Storyline

As a group of friends discover plans for a time machine, they build it and use it to fix their problems and for personal gain. But as the future falls apart with disasters, and each of them disappear little by little, they must travel back to the past to make sure they never invent the machine or face the destruction of humanity.

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Rated PG-13 for some language and sexual content | See all certifications »

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Almanac  »

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Budget:

$12,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

$8,500,000 (USA) (30 January 2015)

Gross:

$22,331,028 (USA) (20 March 2015)
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Trivia

Movie took only 9 months to write, film, and edit. Researching (on time travel) took approximately 3 months. See more »

Goofs

The plot concludes by taking advantage of a causality fault. The main character states that he is going back to prevent the machine from ever being built (to presumably destroy two machines, directly or indirectly via causality). He successfully destroys at least the original, which results in him disappearing. This is because he would never have been able to go back in the first place, if the machine had not been built and stored in the basement for him to find. HOWEVER, somehow his camera is immune to the effects of time and space, surviving alongside its older counterpart, to be discovered together in the future. Furthermore, the main character then states that they are about to "change the world"-- I assume by time traveling... but with what device? See more »

Quotes

Jessie Pierce: You know what I would've done if I was smart enough to build a time machine? I would've gone back in time to meet you sooner.
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Connections

Referenced in On Cinema: 'Welcome to Yesterday' and 'Non-Stop' (2014) See more »

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Requiem
Written and Performed by Mark Sixma
Courtesy of Armada Music B.V.
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16 February 2015 | by (Denmark) – See all my reviews

This movie is a tough nut to crack. Honestly I do not understand the artistic choice in cinematography AT ALL. This has to be the worst found footage film ever made.

When you look apart from that, why is it that American teens are made out to be hysterical hyper idiots even when the story line tries to pass them off as potential MIT students? The general behaviour and choices made takes a lot away from the plot or story line of the movie and simply makes it that much harder to accept the concept.

In the end this movie feels like a dumbed down version of Butterfly Effect, but maybe that's what this generation of teens need? Something hype and simple to soothe their unimaginative minds.

Major thumbs down...


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