Primer

Primer

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Distrust | Garage

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  • Genre(s): Science Fiction, Drama, Thriller
  • Language(s): English
  • Director(s): Shane Carruth
  • Cast(s): Shane Carruth, David Sullivan, Casey Gooden, Kevin Lucero Less, Anand Upadhyaya See all Cast & Crew
  • Duration: 1h 17min
  • Music: David Ho Wing-Hin
  • Award(s): Grand Jury Prize 2004 (Won)
    Independent Spirit 2005 (Nominated) Awards List
  • Similar To: Uglies, Leave the World Behind
  • Story:
    Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.
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6.7/10
IMDb

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STORY AND RATINGS

Story
Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have seemingly anything they want. Taking advantage of this unique opportunity is the first challenge they face. Dealing with the consequences is the next.
Ratings

6.7/10

IMDb

AWARDS

Won
Grand Jury Prize Award

Dramatic | 2004 | Shane

VVFP Award

Best First Feature | 2004

Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize Award

2004 | Shane

(directorwriter) | 2004 | Shane

Nominations
Independent Spirit Award

Best Director | 2005

Best First Screenplay | 2005

Best Debut Performance | 2005

Best Feature | 2005 | Shane

International Fantasy Film Award

Best Film | 2005 | Shane

Gotham Independent Film Award

Best Feature | 2004 | Shane

Best Film Award

2004 | Shane

BOX OFFICE

Budget 7,000 USD

Box Office Collection 545,436 USD

TRIVIA AND POPULAR DIALOGUES

Trivia

The budget for the entire film was around $7000. Most of the money was spent on film stock.

Rian Johnson, director of Looper (2012), mentions in the director's commentary that not only is Primer the best time-travel movie ever made, but that when he sent the script for Looper to his friend Shane Carruth, Carruth told him all his time travel was wrong.

Shane Carruth took up the job of writing, producing, directing, editing and scoring the movie with no prior experience in any of these fields. It took him three years to complete the movie, writing the screenplay over the period of a year and working on an independent movie as a microphone operator to get the hang of filming techniques. Shooting the movie took only a month, but the film spent nearly two years in postproduction due to editing problems. During that period, Carruth claims to have quit the movie 3 or 4 times.

In order to cut costs, Shane Carruth did mostly single takes of shots, and filmed on 16mm stock. This was then transferred to mini-digital video film which he could edit on his PC. This caused some unforeseen problems: the editing software couldn't handle the sound properly, and two months of editing were needed just to synchronize the audio to the video. The biggest problem, however, was the relative lack of footage, which made it difficult to work around continuity errors and technical problems because there often wasn't an alternate take that could be used.

Over a hundred people auditioned for the parts of Abe and Aaron. David Sullivan was cast as Abe without professional acting experience, and director Shane Carruth cast himself as Aaron when he couldn't find the right person for the role.

Popular Dialogues

"Aaron: Man, are you hungry? I haven't eaten since later this afternoon."

"Aaron: You know that story, about how NASA spent millions of dollars developing this pen that writes in Zero G? Did you ever read that? Abe: Yeah. Aaron: You know how the Russians solved the problem? Abe: Yeah, they used a pencil. Aaron: Right. A normal wooden pencil. It just seems like Philip takes the NASA route almost every time."