Repeaters (2010)

Three twenty-somethings find themselves in an impossible time labyrinth, where each day they awaken to the same terrifying day as the preceding one.

Director:

Carl Bessai

Writer:

Arne Olsen

Stars:

Dustin Milligan, Amanda Crew, Richard de Klerk

1 win & 9 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Dustin Milligan	...	Kyle Halsted
Amanda Crew	...	Sonia Logan
Richard de Klerk	...	Michael Weeks
Alexia Fast	...	Charlotte Halsted
Gabrielle Rose	...	Peg Halsted
Hrothgar Mathews	...	Ed Logan
Benjamin Ratner	...	Bob Simpson
Tom Scholte	...	Sgt. Gerald Tibbs
Michael Adamthwaite	...	Tiko Taylor
Manoj Sood	...	Mr. Singh
Sophie Lui	...	Naomi Church
John Cassini	...	Lt. Howard
Donna Yamamoto	...	Officer Yamamoto
John Tench	...	Mr. Weeks
Anja Savcic	...	Michelle

Storyline

In Mission City, Kyle Halsted, Sonia Logan and Michael "Mike" Weeks are interned in a rehabilitation facility run by Bob Simpson. One Wednesday, they have a pass to go outside the site and Kyle visits his sister Charlotte Halsted (Alexia Fast) at the Mission Secondary School but she does not talk to him. Sonia goes to the hospital where her father is terminal, but she does not visit him. Mike visits his father at the Maximum Security Correctional Facility where he is prisoner and the man does not talk to mike. During the night, there is a storm and Kyle, Sonia and Mike have electrical shocks and on the next morning, they awaken on the same day. When they realize that the Wednesday is repeating over and over again, their first reaction is to have fun with dangerous situations. Soon Kyle and Sonia disclose secrets and they decide to use the days to resolve personal issues mending their lives. But Mike decides to route through a criminal life believing that on the next morning, ...

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Plot Keywords:

reliving same event | trapped in a time loop | time travel | time warp | repeated event | 

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Taglines:

What would you do?

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Drama | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

13 September 2010 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Labirinto do Tempo

Filming Locations:

Cleveland Dam, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$1,600,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Rampart Films,Raven West Films Ltd.,Resonance Film & Video

Technical Specs

Runtime:

89 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

[All trivia items for this title are spoilers.]

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Goofs

At about 46 minutes in, Kyle and Mike have an argument that gets physical. Mike slams Kyle into the rear passenger side of Kyle's truck behind the back wheel, which apparently creates a huge bash/dent. You can't miss seeing this huge dent when Mike then pulls away with his Chevelle after the fight is over.

Then in the very next scene, Kyle, with Sonia as passenger, pulls his truck into a parking lot and parks. And even though it's dark, that huge dent is OBVIOUSLY not there.

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Crazy Credits

Pre-credits title card: "Don't wait for the last judgement. It happens every day." - Albert Camus

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Soundtracks

My Best Work
Written & Performed by Clinton Shorter
(SOCAN/BMI)

User Reviews

Film school film

Repeaters contains numerous film school conventions and setups -- pretty shots with shallow depth of field while characters say things that sound profound but are meaningless. It feels like a movie with the mission to look like a real movie. Bessai certainly wanted to make something thinky and challenging. But we've seen this movie already a thousand times and its stale dialogue. The late night group drug trip gone awry is just so cliché. It would have been much edgier to avoid the MTV soundtrack and instead of trying to sell us on how wild these kids are (Fast Times at Ridgemont High was much more harrowing as a comedy), go into their real fears and dreams. It starts with writing not camera work.