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Primer
2004
· Movie
· 77 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #2717
- IMDb #2861
- Google retired #2654
- Rotten Tomatoes #2006
- Metacritic #1595
- Letterboxd #1965
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #2617
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1758
- Metacritic Critics #1661
- Metacritic Audience #1545
- Criticker #955
- Douban #2264
- Kinopoisk #4941
- AlloCiné #4351
- Trakt #2634
Every rating
52–80
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is AlloCiné on 52, highest is Google on 80.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.
Details
- Director
- Shane Carruth
- Writer
- Shane Carruth
- Studio
- erbp
- Released
- 8 October 2004
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 77 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $7.0K
- Box office
- $545.4K
- Awards
- 2 wins, 0 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 2 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 2 nominations across 2 ceremonies
| Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award 2004 | Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award | Winner | |
| Alfred P. Sloan Prize 2004 | Alfred P. Sloan Prize | Winner |
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Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| Sundance Film Festival U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award | Winner |
Alfred P. Sloan Prize
1 nomination, 1 won
| Alfred P. Sloan Prize | Winner |