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Synopsis: Anti Matter (AKA Worm) is a sci-fi noir take on the Alice in Wonderland tale. Ana, an Oxford PhD student, finds herself unable to build new memories following an experiment to generate and travel through a wormhole. The story follows her increasingly desperate efforts to understand what happened, and to find out who - or what - is behind the rising horror in her life.
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Director(s): Keir Burrows
Production: Uncork'd Entertainment
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
Year:
2016
109 min
94 Views


there's no other way.

Everything will change,

start with the obvious.

With a predetermined out node.

It's wormhole theory, we've...

Built a wormhole.

A wormhole.

We're teleporting sh*t?

People, we're going to be gods.

GPS will be up tomorrow.

Dad, can you call Lawrence?

We need solicitors. /

Start with the obvious.

Patents, patents, copyrights.

We need experts, yes.

But we need them soon.

And Uncle Scott, tell

them we'll have a demo.

In a month? / In a week?

On Friday.

Look, dad, I've got to go.

But what this is, is big.

So medicine.

Tumors out of the brain like that.

Think how agriculture will change.

From a wormhole on a farm,

zap, into your fridge.

The way we feed the world will change.

Wormholes in the floodplains

of Bangladesh and the Sahara

will bloom energy.

If this works and it doesn't

collapse all of reality.

We open wormholes to the earth's core,

tap geothermal energy,

run cables through wormholes

to solar panels near the sun.

We'll need to check

for cellular mutation

or molecular decay.

We also need to discuss structure.

We need to set up a

company, we need finance.

Minerals, we can pull

minerals from anywhere,

send products everywhere.

Liv, where's this one going?

Gods, we're gonna change the world.

Hello, ferny.

Oh my god!

Oh my god!

Aw, your face.

What, what did I do?

Thank you.

You're chewing a toothpick.

It's what cool guys do.

Oh, so you're a cool guy now?

Yeah, I am, actually.

Wanna see a magic trick?

Yeah.

I can make matter disappear.

Oh, can you now? / Mhmm.

You ready?

Alright.

You watching?

Yeah. / Good.

Ah...

Okay.

One more time, okay?

Good. / I'm watching you.

I know.

Sh*t!

I used to be able to do this.

I think you should

probably stick to the piano.

Oh, thank you.

Ha!

Very good. / I know.

But where did it go?

Up your sleeve.

Really?

You messed up the first two

times on purpose, didn't you?

So the third time I

wasn't paying attention

and you picked it up

with your other hand.

Show me.

Show me!

Yes, I'm a genius.

Six years since we were

undergrads together.

Second year physics.

Long time.

It is.

Nate?

Tests are perfect.

DNA, RNA identical.

Hey!

Looking good.

Yeah, I warned you I was a cool guy.

Come see, Liv's created a stable sphere.

It's only 30 centimeters across.

We can't process

anything bigger, not yet.

Tempting, right?

It's so interesting.

It doesn't look like I thought it would.

No, it's doing...

You can see the numbers there.

It's doing things with light that...

Anyway, stand over there.

Yeah.

Phase attack!

Get in.

That is something, though.

There's potential for it.

No one will attack anyone, hippie.

Retaliation would be too easy.

Like the atom bomb? / Bingo.

Think how this will affect transport.

If we can phase live fauna.

Think.

Cities will change.

People will live in the

country, phase into the office.

All the social problems cities bring...

Will change.

Travel will change.

Phase to the mountains.

Phase to the beaches, to mom for tea.

To the moon.

To the vault of a bank, anywhere.

Now you're talking.

Nathan.

Such wit.

We're moving fast here.

You think we should... / No.

No, we need to get a test in

before the university get involved.

Buying all the hardware

to run this legally

means serious product first.

Okay, stinky thing.

Prepare to make history.

Granny?

Hello, Granny, it's Liv.

Olivia.

Yes.

Question, how's Tinkles?

Yeah, the patents.

I need them processed.

I needed them processed yesterday

and I need them done

in Ana's name, okay?

All of them, they're all

gonna want to see this.

I mean, dad, this is massive.

Just support me once.

Your grandmother's cat, really?

F***, oh my god! / Way bigger.

Dad, it's like inventing electricity.

It's sound science.

Granny will spot anything odd.

Nate, can you give us a hand here?

It's all possible, isn't it?

This is the single biggest thing

that mankind... / Little boy a hand.

Will ever have done.

Red suits you, and

this thing with the hair?

No, really, I like it, honest.

It's not so Dragon Tattoo,

hacker stock image.

It's a good move.

Incognito.

Olivia, darling.

Come in, come in!

Oh, it's cold out there.

Oh, come in, come on through.

Well you look lovely.

You've taken that horrible

blue sh*t out of your hair.

Are you, um, here for Tinkles again?

Hello to you too, Granny.

No, no.

We just wanted to see

how he's doing, actually.

Well, he's doing wonderfully.

Hello there, I'm Brenda.

I'm Olivia's grandmother, and you are?

I'm Ana, hi.

This is Nathan.

I'm Nathan.

They're my assistants.

Although Ana is an immigrant,

so feel free to call border patrol.

Tinkles is fine?

You're not being suspicious at all.

Any reason why he wouldn't be?

Oh, he fractured the

space time continuum,

visited the fourth dimension. /

Did he now?

Would you like some tea?

This place is nuts.

Tell me about it.

I knew she came from money, but this?

You're looking quite smart, actually?

Well, you know what?

I'm channeling my inner Granny.

Yeah, I her grandfather

is Earl somebody.

11th in line for the throne.

Seriously?

Check this.

Ana?

What's up?

Do you want to go see a movie tonight?

Sure.

We could all use the break, right?

I mean like, go see

a movie, see a movie.

What are you...?

Oh.

F***, forsaken cock f***ers, f***!

Good grief, Olivia.

I cannot f***ing believe this.

Can you f***ing believe this?

I cannot f***ing believe it.

I can't f***ing believe it, either.

More tea?

Microsoft have a patch out.

A patch?

They're shutting the worm down.

Okay, so what does that give us?

A day max.

The meeting is on Friday, the demo.

We'll get funding then.

Not enough to pull cycles on this scale.

So?

We need to do a final test, a knock out.

You're not suggesting...

She is.

We need to be true revolutionaries

right out of the gate.

She's right.

To guarantee investment on this scale,

we'll need to have... /

And we'd need to do it now.

Right now.

Okay, I'll do it.

Uh.

The world doesn't work like

that anymore, Lancelot.

Well.

Well, then.

All systems operational.

Temperature's dropping, holding.

Hydraulics one, up.

Hydraulics two, up.

Hydraulics three, Liv, higher, higher.

Up.

Diagnostics reading okay.

Still waiting for the

numbers to plateau.

.272, .99.

Liv, the readings here,

they're inconsistent.

Cable one's overheating.

Switch to two and three.

On my mark, engage phase two.

Ana, hold still.

Could this feel anymore ominous?

At all?

You don't have to do this, you know?

Yes, she does.

Now relax, exhale.

You're screwing with the readings.

Nate?

For the record, I'm

really, seriously scared.

Don't be.

This is all you. / Picture the Nobel.

One last thing.

What if I grow tentacles? /

Or testicles.

A great big, harry pair of... /

We phase matter.

We take matter and we pass

it through a wormhole.

Unaltered, pass it unaltered.

Your point?

The numbers really are dropping.

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