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movie Primer

Released: October 8, 2004
Runtime: 1 hour 17 minutes
Science Fiction Drama Thriller

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.

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