Chronicle Page #3

Synopsis: The shy, lonely and outcast teenager Andrew Detmer is bullied and has no friends at high-school and lives with his abusive and alcoholic father Richard Detmer and his terminally ill mother Karen. Andrew buys a camera to film his everyday life. His cousin Matt Garetty drives him to school and invites Andrew to go to a party at night. telekinetic abilities and Andrew becomes the most powerful. But he easily loses his temper and becomes dangerous while Matt tries to control him. When his mother needs a medicine and Andrew does not have enough money to buy it, his darker side overcomes and he becomes a menace.
Director(s): Josh Trank
Production: 20th Century Fox
  2 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
PG-13
Year:
2012
84 min
$60,800,000
Website
1,278 Views


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- You gotta get close, like literally almost in the hole.

- Okay, don't push me. Just don't push me.

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- Check this sh*t out. We're not gonna push you in.

- We're just trying to get it on camera.

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- Listen. Can you hear that?

- Shh, shh.

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What...

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I think we got it.

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Wait. How creepy is that?

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Is this sound coming up?

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I don't know. I mean,

probably. It's pretty loud, right?

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- Hello!

- All right, dude. We're going inside.

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- I'm going back. Come on, you guys.

- I gotta know.

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Matt, seriously, we...

Hey, wait, wait. Steve!

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Steve!

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Oh, sh*t! He's a ninja.

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Matt!

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Whoa, Matt, Matt, Matt. What are you doing?

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Are you serious?

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- Andrew, can you give me some light?

- Matt, don't be an idiot.

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Whoop! Whoop!

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Matt! Matt, you're my ride home!

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Hello?

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Oh!

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Smells terrible. You guys!

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Matt!

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Hello?

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Andrew's such a p*ssy.

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All right. Does it go

down much deeper, or what?

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- Yeah, man. It goes really, really far.

- Andrew, bring the light.

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Look at the walls. It's

like a straight shot down.

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Probably already come like 40 or 50 feet.

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Yeah, just don't talk about it, okay?

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You ever... You ever heard of

Plato's Allegory of the Cave?

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I don't know, Matt. Let's

just get this over with.

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Oh, Sh*t!

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Holy sh*t.

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The hell is that?

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Matt, I'm not kidding. I can't breathe.

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- Come on.

- Andrew, look at this.

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What...

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Can you believe this?

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Matt.

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What am I looking at?

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- Ah, sh*t!

- I am freaking out right now!

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Matt! Can we get out of here, please?

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Is it showing up on the camera like that?

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I don't know, man. It's messing with

it. I don't really want to film...

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It's messing with it. I

don't really want to film...

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Dude, I'll buy you a new one.

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Touch one.

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Matt!

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- Matt, look at this!

- What?

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Look at this!

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Dude, what is...

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Dude, no way!

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- It's changing colors!

- Oh, my God.

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Must be reacting to heat.

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- I can't hear you over that...

- This is awesome.

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Oh! Dude, your nose!

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Steve, Steve!

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Steve!

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Steve!

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Matt, dude, put your

phone down. Turn it off.

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- Okay, okay, okay.

- Steve, you too.

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- All right.

- We have to document this.

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- Okay. Are you guys ready?

- Yeah. I'm ready.

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- All right. Here we go. Okay, Steve...

- What?

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Can you move to your left?

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- Here?

- Um, yeah. That's good.

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And then, Matt,

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can you just go right in front of Steve?

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Um...

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- Here?

- Yeah, perfect. Yeah, yeah. Okay.

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This is the ball test.

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- You ready?

- Yep.

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Oh!

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What the sh*t, Steve?

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Get off! Get off! What

are you doing? Underhand.

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I tried, man. I tried.

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- Let's do it. Let's do it.

- All right.

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- All right. Wait, wait.

- We good?

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- We said underhand, right?

- Yeah, it is underhand. Yeah.

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Okay.

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- Underneath.

- I'm on you. You're not gonna get me this time.

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- You ready?

- Yeah.

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- I'm on it. Yeah.

- I don't know what you're talking about.

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Let's go.

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Oh!

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Yeah! The crowd goes wild!

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- Yeah, I'm ready.

- All right. Matt, beam him. Beam him.

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- I'm... I'm going to.

- Beam him.

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Oh!

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- Oh!

- No way! Sh*t!

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Wait, wait, wait. That's great!

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- He did it!

- I did it! I did it!

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- That is crazy!

- Oh, my God!

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- Look at it!

- Oh, my God!

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- Holy sh*t!

- Oh, my God.

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Oh, my God. Oh, dude, you're

bleeding. You're bleeding.

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Oh, man, sh*t. Stop,

stop, stop. Get a tissue.

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You did it! Yes!

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- Oh. All right. Pop-up. Ready?

- Yeah.

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Yes!

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- Put on the music.

- Oh, yeah.

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Yes. j&j&

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Yes.

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Max Landis

Max Landis (; born August 3, 1985) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and comic book writer who wrote the films Chronicle (2012), American Ultra (2015), Victor Frankenstein (2015), and Bright (2017), as well as a variety of short films including The Death and Return of Superman and Wrestling Isn't Wrestling. He was an executive producer on the Syfy anthology horror series Channel Zero, as well as creator and showrunner for the American adaptation of Douglas Adams' science fiction detective comedy novel series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on BBC America, which both premiered in October 2016. more…

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