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FAQ About Time Travel (2009)

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British comedy stars Chris O’Dowd, Dean Lennox Kelly and Marc Wooton star as three thirtysomething layabouts who discover a fissure in the space-time continuum in the toilet of their local pub. The three drinking pals decide one evening to head to the loo together with the fate of the world in their hands, and they are thrown together with a woman from the future (Anna Farris) who sets them on a strange adventure.

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From Time Out London

The success of micro-budget head-scratcher ‘Primer’ proved the lure  of the time-travel story. Now all kinds of similarly cash-strapped, ideas-heavy titles are starting to emerge from the indie underworld, from Spanish horror ‘TimeCrimes’ to this likeable homegrown effort from seasoned TV comedy director Gareth Carrivick.

Stuck in a dead-end job, sci-fi enthusiast Ray (Chris O’Dowd) wants to achieve great things but doesn’t know where to start. That’s until an encounter with mysterious time-cop Cassie (Anna Faris) – not to mention a temporal leak in the local pub toilets – sends him on a tour through a series of possible futures.

Wisely restricting themselves to a single location – in space, if not time – Carrivick and writer Jamie Mathieson weave a compelling narrative from simple elements, playing on audience expectations and riffing expertly on time-travel traditions. While hardly groundbreaking, this is smart, amusing post-pub viewing.

Author: Tom Huddleston 2009-04-21 11:37:27

Time Out London Issue 2018, April 23-29, 2009

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FAQ About Time Travel

Cast & crew

Cast: Anna Faris, Chris O'Dowd, Dean Lennox Kelly, Marc Wootton

Duration: 83 mins


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