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Project Almanac

  • 20152015
  • PGPG
  • 1h 46m
IMDb RATING
6.4/10
79K
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Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, Jonny Weston, and Virginia Gardner in Project Almanac (2015)
A brilliant high school student and his friends uncover blueprints for a mysterious device with limitless potential, inadvertently putting lives in danger.
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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.A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

IMDb RATING
6.4/10
79K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Dean Israelite
  • Writers
    • Jason Pagan
    • Andrew Deutschman
  • Stars
    • Amy Landecker
    • Sofia Black-D'Elia
    • Virginia Gardner
Top credits
  • Director
    • Dean Israelite
  • Writers
    • Jason Pagan
    • Andrew Deutschman
  • Stars
    • Amy Landecker
    • Sofia Black-D'Elia
    • Virginia Gardner
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 258User reviews
    • 188Critic reviews
    • 47Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
  • Videos11

    Trailer #1
    Trailer 2:34
    Trailer #1
    Trailer #1
    Trailer 2:33
    Trailer #1
    Before The World Ends
    Clip 1:08
    Before The World Ends
    Lottery
    Clip 0:54
    Lottery
    Bullied
    Clip 0:37
    Bullied
    Thats Me
    Clip 1:05
    Thats Me
    Smiley Face
    Clip 0:52
    Smiley Face
    Step In
    Clip 0:46
    Step In
    Clicking Noise
    Clip 0:53
    Clicking Noise
    Jonny Weston
    Interview 2:50
    Jonny Weston
    Allen Evangelista
    Interview 3:54
    Allen Evangelista

    Photos219

    Sofia Black-D'Elia in Project Almanac (2015)
    David Raskin, Allen Evangelista, and Jonny Weston in Project Almanac (2015)
    Jonny Weston and Virginia Gardner in Project Almanac (2015)
    David Raskin and Jonny Weston in Project Almanac (2015)
    David Raskin and Jonny Weston in Project Almanac (2015)
    David Raskin, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, Dean Israelite, and Jonny Weston in Project Almanac (2015)
    Jonny Weston in Project Almanac (2015)
    Allen Evangelista in Project Almanac (2015)
    David Raskin, Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Jonny Weston, and Virginia Gardner in Project Almanac (2015)
    Allen Evangelista, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Jonny Weston, and Virginia Gardner in Project Almanac (2015)
    Dean Israelite in Project Almanac (2015)
    Sam Lerner, Allen Evangelista, Sofia Black-D'Elia, Jonny Weston, and Virginia Gardner in Project Almanac (2015)

    Top cast

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    Amy Landecker
    Amy Landecker
    • Kathy Raskinas Kathy Raskin
    Sofia Black-D'Elia
    Sofia Black-D'Elia
    • Jessie Pierceas Jessie Pierce
    Virginia Gardner
    Virginia Gardner
    • Christina Raskinas Christina Raskin
    Jonny Weston
    Jonny Weston
    • David Raskinas David Raskin
    Sam Lerner
    Sam Lerner
    • Quinn Goldbergas Quinn Goldberg
    Allen Evangelista
    Allen Evangelista
    • Adam Leas Adam Le
    Gary Weeks
    Gary Weeks
    • Ben Raskinas Ben Raskin
    Macsen Lintz
    • David, Age 7as David, Age 7
    Gary Grubbs
    Gary Grubbs
    • Dr. Louas Dr. Lou
    Michelle DeFraites
    Michelle DeFraites
    • Sarah Nathanas Sarah Nathan
    Curry Stone
    • Male Studentas Male Student
    Jamila Thompson
    Jamila Thompson
    • Marinaas Marina
    Katie Garfield
    Katie Garfield
    • Livas Liv
    Hillary Harley
    • Blondeas Blonde
    Courtney Bowers
    • Jess' Friendas Jess' Friend
    Patrick Johnson
    Patrick Johnson
    • Toddas Todd
    Joshua Brady
    Joshua Brady
    • Break Up Guyas Break Up Guy
    Danielle Rizzo
    • Break Up Girlas Break Up Girl
    • Director
      • Dean Israelite
    • Writers
      • Jason Pagan
      • Andrew Deutschman
    • All cast & crew
    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

    Storyline

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    The teenager David Raskin is a genius that dreams on joining the MIT. He has a crush on Jessie Pierce but he is too shy to date her. When David finds the design of a time machine that belonged to his father, he decides to build the device together with his friends Quinn Goldberg and Adam Le and his sister Christina Raskin. Soon Jessie joins the group and becomes David's girlfriend. When their experiment gets out of control and changing the future, David decides to fix the problems making them worse. —Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
    time traveltime machineteenageralternate timelinerace against time142 more
    • Plot summary
    • Plot synopsis
    • Taglines
      • To fix the past, would you risk your future?
    • Genres
      • Drama
      • Mystery
      • Sci-Fi
      • Thriller
    • Certificate
      • PG
    • Parents guide

    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Movie took only 9 months to write, film, and edit. Researching (on time travel) took approximately 3 months.
    • Goofs
      Allen draws circles on the board to explain the ripple effect on the plane crash. Later, David goes back in time to fix it. When he comes back, we see the board still has circles drawn on it though they shouldn't be there considering the plane crash never happened.
    • 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.

    • Connections
      Featured in Smosh: Time Traveling Pickup Master (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Jungle
      Written by Sam Harris, Alexander Grant, Jamie N. Commons & Michael Francis Gonzalez

      Performed by Jamie N. Commons (as Jamie N Commons) and X Ambassadors

      Courtesy of Interscope Records

      Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

    User reviews258

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    Won't Reinvent The Genre, But It Is Entertaining
    I liked Project Almanac. It didn't necessarily excite me. And I did scratch my head a few times. But ultimately, I liked it. It had an interesting, if slow moving, story. It stayed grounded, or at least tried to, and did it's very best to legitimize time travel as a possibility, even if it doesn't do a very good job of actually explaining the whole thing. Certainly some things are silly, like explaining being able to control the time machine with a cell phone as cell phones 'having enough power to put a rocket in space', but these don't really take away from a lot of the fun dealing with the time travel element.

    The story is pretty simple, but actually feels heart felt. David, a genius level teenager newly accepted to MIT, finds himself short on the money to pay his tuition there. This inadvertently leads him to discover an unfinished time machine his absent father left hidden in his basement. While it takes a while for the time travel elements to ramp up, there is fun to be had in seeing these kids build, experiment, and ultimately successfully travel through time. The film does a good job in allowing us to escape certain illogical elements, like how a group of teens with a fairly limited budget could create a fully functioning time machine, much less create one when no one else on earth seemingly could. David and his buddy Adam are already established as being geniuses from the moment the film begins. So, it's not much of a leap that together they could figure out how to complete the already crafted instructions and blueprints sitting in front of them. You could even say there's legitimacy to the use of the found footage style they went for. They even comment on the use of the camera, which at least shows they recognize that it's there.

    However, despite some explanation that helps solidify the camera's constant presence, the film , like so many found footage films, would have benefited from simply being shot like a typical narrative. The film even goes the lengths to, strangely enough, be somewhere in between. We see edits that don't make sense for someone whose recording and we have music play over things like a montage. It's just bizarre to see and hear these things play out over a film that is supposed to pretend to be found off camcorder footage. And these production elements aren't bad, they're just out of place and show the film could have benefited from simply eschewing the found footage style all together. There's also some head scratching moments throughout that can be eye-roll-inducing, but I tend to be able to suspend my disbelief, so it didn't bother me as much.

    The film overall isn't one I'd probably tell people to run out and see. But I'd certainly tell them it's not a bad film. Far from it, it's a surprise in the sub genre of found footage. And while it doesn't reach the heights of Chronicle, which I consider to be the peak of found footage, I do think it's one of the better found footage films.
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    • cadillac20
    • Jan 28, 2015

    FAQ3

    • How could the group time-travel from Georgia to Illinois? Did the device allow also for spatial displacement or is this a plot hole?

    Details

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    • Release date
      • January 30, 2015 (Canada)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official sites
      • Official Facebook
      • Official site
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Projet Almanach
    • Filming locations
      • Grant Park, Downtown, Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • Production companies
      • Insurge Pictures
      • Platinum Dunes
      • MTV Films
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $12,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $22,348,241
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $8,310,252
      • Feb 1, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $33,213,241
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 46 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Digital
      • Dolby Surround 7.1
      • SDDS
      • Dolby Atmos
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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