Chronicle Page #9

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
1,281 Views


791

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40:54,744 -- 00:40:57,793

You know, Matt, you can

just mail this yourself.

792

00:
40:57,872 -- 00:40:59,340

I'm not your mom.

793

00:
40:59,832 -- 00:41:01,129

Okay. I mean, I just...

794

00:
41:01,209 -- 00:41:04,053

What is this? Is this, like, the new you?

795

00:
41:04,629 -- 00:41:07,553

You got too smart to have fun

in eighth grade. So now what?

796

00:
41:07,632 -- 00:41:08,633

No.

797

00:
41:08,716 -- 00:41:10,184

Casey, Casey, Casey, Casey, Casey, Casey.

798

00:
41:10,259 -- 00:41:13,763

Listen, listen. Can I just

talk to you for a second?

799

00:
41:13,888 -- 00:41:15,811

- Can I just tell you something?

- Mm-hmm.

800

00:
41:15,890 -- 00:41:18,643

I just... I... I...

801

00:
41:18,726 -- 00:41:21,479

I just want you to know I'm

not, you know, who I was... now.

802

00:
41:21,562 -- 00:41:23,360

You know, I'm cool. I'm just...

803

00:
41:24,273 -- 00:41:25,320

You're cool?

804

00:
41:25,400 -- 00:41:28,995

High school popularity just seemed

like this weird backward contest,

805

00:
41:29,070 -- 00:41:30,947

and I thought since I

knew that, I could just...

806

00:
41:31,030 -- 00:41:33,203

That made you better than everybody else.

807

00:
41:33,282 -- 00:41:34,408

No. No, no, no.

808

00:
41:34,534 -- 00:41:36,787

- I know what you mean.

- I would separate myself from that.

809

00:
41:36,911 -- 00:41:38,163

- I get it.

- You get it?

810

00:
41:38,246 -- 00:41:39,543

Mm-hmm.

811

00:
41:39,622 -- 00:41:42,501

I know it sounds weird. I

just wanted you to know that.

812

00:
41:42,583 -- 00:41:44,176

To know that you're cool.

813

00:
41:44,252 -- 00:41:45,970

Wow, I really screwed this up.

814

00:
41:48,798 -- 00:41:50,550

Not as much as you might think.

815

00:
41:50,675 -- 00:41:51,892

- Really?

- Good-bye.

816

00:
41:51,968 -- 00:41:53,390

- Casey...

- I gotta go. Bye.

817

00:
41:54,829 -- 00:41:55,931

Come on.

818

00:
41:57,306 -- 00:42:00,981

Dude! When did you start doing this?

819

00:
42:01,102 -- 00:42:02,479

- Like, since when?

- What, with the camera?

820

00:
42:02,562 -- 00:42:04,030

- Yes, with the camera.

- Um...

821

00:
42:04,105 -- 00:42:05,903

I don't know. It's been

a little while, I guess.

822

00:
42:05,982 -- 00:42:07,780

See... Oh. I can't do that.

823

00:
42:07,859 -- 00:42:10,032

I can't do stuff that requires finesse.

824

00:
42:10,111 -- 00:42:13,240

I tried to type my name out yesterday,

and I cracked my keyboard in half.

825

00:
42:13,322 -- 00:42:17,452

No, dude. It's really easy. You just...

You think that you're holding it.

826

00:
42:17,577 -- 00:42:19,892

See, that's what I'm

talking about right there.

827

00:
42:19,893 -- 00:42:21,207

What?

828

00:
42:21,289 -- 00:42:25,510

You're always thinking up

new sh*t that we can do, man.

829

00:
42:25,626 -- 00:42:28,425

- This is insane.

- You know... I mean...

830

00:
42:28,504 -- 00:42:29,676

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

831

00:
42:29,756 -- 00:42:32,054

Yeah. Yes. I guess that I am.

832

00:
42:33,801 -- 00:42:37,226

Whoo!

833

00:
42:38,973 -- 00:42:41,226

Mom's, like, never home any more.

834

00:
42:42,602 -- 00:42:46,323

I mean, you saw how my

dad is. He's just... quiet.

835

00:
42:47,065 -- 00:42:48,783

Sits around.

836

00:
42:48,858 -- 00:42:53,079

And it's pointless to talk to him about

it 'cause he's got... nothing to say.

837

00:
42:54,155 -- 00:42:56,249

See, it's different, 'cause

you've always had friends,

838

00:
42:56,324 -- 00:42:59,703

and people want to talk

to you and be around you.

839

00:
42:59,786 -- 00:43:02,710

I never had any of that.

I mean, before this,

840

00:
43:02,830 -- 00:43:06,425

I barely even hung out with

Matt, and he's my cousin.

841

00:
43:06,501 -- 00:43:08,344

We were close when we were little, but...

842

00:
43:10,004 -- 00:43:12,598

I don't know. In high

school, everything changed.

843

00:
43:12,673 -- 00:43:15,472

Ever been to the Space Needle?

844

00:
43:15,551 -- 00:43:18,225

Yep. When I was, like, five.

845

00:
43:19,972 -- 00:43:21,315

it's for tourists.

846

00:
43:22,350 -- 00:43:25,604

Well, I don't know. I mean, I went, um...

847

00:
43:26,104 -- 00:43:27,981

I think I was, like, seven...

848

00:
43:28,731 -- 00:43:31,951

with my dad one time and...

849

00:
43:33,444 -- 00:43:35,538

I don't know. It was

actually a really good day.

850

00:
43:36,322 -- 00:43:38,199

You remember that?

851

00:
43:39,242 -- 00:43:41,165

Yeah. Actually, I do.

852

00:
43:43,913 -- 00:43:45,631

You know, I've been meaning to ask you.

853

00:
43:46,124 -- 00:43:48,092

Winter break is coming up.

854

00:
43:48,960 -- 00:43:50,803

You should do the talent show with me.

855

00:
43:52,171 -- 00:43:53,468

No way.

856

00:
43:53,548 -- 00:43:55,676

Why not? It'd be good for you

to get out there, you know.

857

00:
43:55,800 -- 00:43:59,100

- Meet some people, meet some girls.

- Dude, I'm not... it's just not...

858

00:
44:00,388 -- 00:44:02,436

- What?

- Look, I'm just really shy, okay?

859

00:
44:02,515 -- 00:44:07,066

And I don't... I don't

even have any talents, so...

860

00:
44:07,145 -- 00:44:10,194

What are you talking about, you

don't have... You have talent.

861

00:
44:12,066 -- 00:44:13,739

You've got talent.

862

00:
44:15,486 -- 00:44:17,363

Oh, dude, no way.

863

00:
44:18,988 -- 00:44:19,957

You look handsome.

864

00:
44:21,174 -- 00:44:23,123

Thanks, yes. Steve...

865

00:
44:24,344 -- 00:44:29,172

let me borrow some of his clothes

to make me look cool or whatever.

866

00:
44:29,917 -- 00:44:33,171

I'm glad you're spending so

much time with your friends.

867

00:
44:33,254 -- 00:44:36,554

Yeah. Yeah, me too.

868

00:
44:47,977 -- 00:44:49,900

- Hey.

- What?

869

00:
44:52,857 -- 00:44:54,359

How are you getting to school?

870

00:
44:56,027 -- 00:44:58,871

- I don't know what you mean.

- Don't bullshit me, you idiot.

871

00:
44:59,488 -- 00:45:02,617

Matt doesn't come. He doesn't drive up.

872

00:
45:03,618 -- 00:45:06,838

You leave the house. Who the

hell's giving you rides to school?

873

00:
45:07,914 -- 00:45:11,009

- M... Matt.

- All right. You know what?

874

00:
45:11,083 -- 00:45:12,255

You're lying.

875

00:
45:15,046 -- 00:45:18,391

You're up to something,

and you can't hide it.

876

00:
45:19,133 -- 00:45:21,807

You think you can just slink, hmm?

877

00:
45:21,886 -- 00:45:24,139

Sneak in, sneak around my house, smiling?

878

00:
45:27,183 -- 00:45:28,605

I'm onto your sh*t.

879

00:
45:30,377 -- 00:45:32,730

How do you even work this stupid thing?

880

00:
45:35,382 -- 00:45:37,576

Ah! And we're in business.

881

00:
45:52,500 -- 00:45:55,174

j&j& La, la, la, la, la! j&

882

00:
45:59,215 -- 00:46:00,262

Boo!

883

00:
46:01,092 -- 00:46:03,436

- Hey.

- Hi.

884

00:
46:03,511 -- 00:46:05,684

Um, what are you doing here?

885

00:
46:06,389 -- 00:46:09,768

I'm filming for the talent show.

886

00:
46:10,685 -- 00:46:14,440

- Matt Garetty is filming for the talent show.

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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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