Chronicle Page #4

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
1,291 Views


Matt, you have... you have to pretend like

you're squeezing them together with your hands.

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That's what I'm doing.

Look. That's what I'm doing.

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I can't do it, dude. I give up.

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You do it. You're better at this than I am.

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Oh, really? Am I? Really?

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Just do it.

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Oh.

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Sick.

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Dude, I hate you! That's...

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- I'm impressed, man. I am impressed.

- That's amazing.

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That was awesome, dude.

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- Oh, no!

- Come on, dude.

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- That is not cool.

- What?

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- That is not cool.

- My Legos.

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You've been hanging out with those

two guys for the last three weeks.

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- Three weeks.

- I'm not stupid.

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I think you're hiding something

from me. You better call me back.

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- Wow.

- I love you.

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I'm gonna get a brick through my

window. I am legitimately scared.

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I have an election coming up,

and I don't have time for this.

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Dude, why are you asking

us for advice on girls?

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Because we're his mistress.

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So, what, you think it's,

like, radiation or something?

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- Radiation from what?

- Dude, it's the government.

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What? Matt, what are you talking about?

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I'm feeling pretty spelunked out actually.

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Andrew, relax.

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That's so weird. It looks

completely different during the day.

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Look. I don't care, okay? I

am not going in the hole again.

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A**hole.

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It's like sunk in or something.

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- There goes your old camera, dude.

- Oh, sh*t.

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That's weird. I can

still feel it down there.

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I can't believe we made it out of there.

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Well, I mean, that answers that, right?

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Um, what does? We still

don't know what happened.

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- No

- Well, we're still alive.

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- I mean, I was definitely...

- Hey!

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You kids can't be here,

okay? You gotta move on out.

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What?

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The ground's unstable. We're

taping the whole place off.

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Okay. We're going.

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Vote for Steve!

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- New camera's working out for you. That's good.

- Yeah, it's pretty cool, right?

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Yeah, smaller. Does that shoot on tape?

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No, it just... It, like,

records right onto the camera.

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No, I just want to record all the

stuff that we can do, you know.

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Yeah, but it's like all the time.

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You don't feel like it's a little weird,

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like it puts a barrier between

you and everything else?

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Uh, I don't know.

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Maybe I want a barrier.

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So, like, what's up with your dad?

What's his story? What does he do?

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Um, my dad's a firefighter.

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Okay. That's cool. Oh, man,

that must have been awesome...

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Yeah, well, he was, I guess.

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- What happened?

- Uh, I don't know. He didn't die or anything.

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He just... He got injured

on the job, and now he, um...

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he collects the insurance, you know.

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Um, so he doesn't really do anything.

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He just... He, um... He'll go out during

the day, but I don't know where he goes.

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Uh, he drinks a lot.

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I know that much.

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I've actually been having some

problems with my parents too.

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Oh, yeah?

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Yeah. I mean, they're nothing like yours.

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I mean, not like that...

I just... Never mind.

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They just been fighting a lot lately.

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And I think my mom is

actually cheating on my dad.

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Can you not say anything about that?

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- Yeah. No way.

- Thanks.

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Yes. Karen Detmer. D-E-T-M-E-R.

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Yes. Thank you.

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She's in pain.

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She needs something stronger.

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Her breathing's worse.

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Sir, she's suffering.

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Please help me.

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I'm on disability. I can't afford $700.

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Please, don't put me on hold! She can't

breathe, okay? I don't know what to do any more.

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Is it on?

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Yeah. Yeah. You got it.

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I want to remember you like this.

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Oh, Mom.

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You're stronger than this.

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Can you say that for me?

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Please?

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I'm stronger than this.

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Oh, nice.

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All right. Here. Watch this.

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- Weak.

- Hey, Matt.

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Yeah?

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Do you like me?

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Um, yeah, of course.

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I mean, you know, I didn't...

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- I mean, you know, I didn't always.

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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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