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Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and their darker sides begin to take over.
2012 · Directed by Josh Trank · 84 min · Science Fiction · Drama · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 15 frames
Tagline
What are you capable of?
Plot
In Seattle, teenager Andrew Detmer is bullied in school, abused by his alcoholic father Richard, and his mother Karen has cancer. The family struggles with medical debt after Richard loses his firefighter job. Andrew’s only friend is his cousin Matt Garetty. Inspired by Matt's girlfriend Casey, he buys a camera to make a video diary of his life.
Matt invites Andrew to a party to help him mingle, but he leaves after his filming causes an altercation with another attendee. Popular student Steve Montgomery asks Andrew to record a large hole he and Matt found in the woods. They go down the hole and find a glowing crystalline object. The object reacts violently, and the camera shorts out.
A few days later, Andrew, Matt, and Steve develop telekinetic abilities. Unable to revisit the hole after authorities close it, they use their powers for pranks, but after Andrew pushes a rude motorist into a lake, the trio agree to Matt's suggestion to exercise restraint when using their powers.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Max Landis
- Cinematography: Matthew Jensen
- Edited by: Elliot Greenberg
- Music: Youssef Guezoum
- Production design: Stephen Altman
- Produced by: John Davis, Adam Schroeder
Cast
- Dane DeHaan as Andrew Detmer
- Alex Russell as Matt Garetty
- Michael B. Jordan as Steve Montgomery
- Michael Kelly as Richard Detmer
- Ashley Hinshaw as Casey Letter
- Bo Petersen as Karen Detmer
- Anna Wood as Monica
- Rudi Malcolm as Wayne
- Luke Tyler as Sean
- Crystal-Donna Roberts as Samantha
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Dune Entertainment, Davis Entertainment, Adam Schroeder Productions, 20th Century Fox
- Budget: $15,000,000
- Box office: $145,000,000
- Themes: friendship, flying, seattle, washington, telekinesis, coming of age, outcast, loneliness, super power, found footage, aftercreditsstinger
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