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Coherence (2013), Director: James Ward Byrkit, Not rated (Dad's: PG-13)

Do you know your friends? Do you know what's real? Do you know yourself?

Film ClipStarring: Emily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Lorene Scafaria, Elizabeth Gracen, Hugo Armstrong, Alex Manugian, Lauren Maher, Aqueela Zoll

DML Rating: ★★★★★★★★☆☆ - great

"This whole night we've been worrying... there's some dark version of us out there somewhere. What if we're the dark version?" - Mike

Why watch this? This indie gem is Sci-fi Mind-twister 101.

Plot Summary: A group of friends at a dinner party experience strange phenomena, including a power outage, during the passing of a comet. They soon discover that the comet has created an anomaly, causing multiple parallel realities to overlap and intersect with their own, leading to interactions with doppelgängers who have made slightly different life choices. As paranoia and tension escalate, the protagonist, Emily, realizes she is in a "wrong" reality.

Dad's Preview: Over the course of a single dinner party, a very talented, neophyte director takes us on a thrill ride eager to feed fans of TV's The Twilight Zone and today's Black Mirror. The sci-fi cause to all this reality-jumping is a comet cascading very close to Earth. Over half the fun is how the dinner guests slowly figure out what the hell is afoot. After that, we get to watch them make a series of bad and blatantly selfish choices. This film is a lot of fun, in a strange, time-warpy kind of way.


Bellanova Films, Ugly Duckling Films; Oscilloscope Laboratories

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