Coherence Page #4

Synopsis: On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events.
Director(s): James Ward Byrkit
Production: Oscilloscope Pictures
  5 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.2
Metacritic:
65
Rotten Tomatoes:
88%
NOT RATED
Year:
2013
89 min
Website
3,377 Views


I don't like any of this.

Jesus!

Stay.

Oh, my God.

Oh man, it's them.

- What the hell happened?

- Are you okay?

- I'm fine, I'm fine.

- Are you okay?

What is this?

- What's the box?

- That was at the other house.

I thought I saw Hugh put it down.

Then he was running

around the corner and...

- You just took it?

- I just followed him.

- I didn't... I had it in my hand.

- Why was he running?

- Hugh, what happened?

- I'm fine, I'm fine.

- Did you put this down?

- Amir, why the f*** did you take that?

- I thought I saw you put it down.

- I did not touch that thing.

I don't know what that is

or why you grabbed it.

- Guys, what happened?

- Okay. We were at the other house.

Hugh went around the side.

I thought I heard a noise.

You made some kind of sound, and

then you saw what? Something.

You won't tell me what you saw.

I don't understand what's going on.

What did you see?

- I don't...

- What did you see?

That has nothing to

do with anything...

that we should be

f***ing concerned with.

What did you see?

- It's not a big deal. I'll walk it back.

- Okay, fine.

Wait. Let me open it first.

No, Mike. What are you doing?

- What is it?

- I don't know. I don't know.

You don't want to talk about it

and you don't want to open...

Fine! Open the f***ing box!

Open the box. What do I care?

What is wrong? Calm down.

What happened?

Holy sh*t, it worked.

I got it.

Open it away from your face.

- It's not a bomb.

- How do you know what the heck it is?

- Don't freak out.

- Be careful.

Oh, my God, It's a ping-pong paddle.

It's a ping-pong paddle.

- Well, what's that?

- What is going on?

- Oh, my God.

- What is it?

These are pictures of all of us.

These are...

- Somebody's marked us.

- I want to try to figure this out.

- This is insane.

- And there are numbers on the back.

- Hugh.

- Baby, what did you see?

- Hugh what did you see?

- What did you see?

Jesus Christ, man.

You can't stand there and not

say anything! What did you see?

Hugh!

There are pictures

of us in this box!

Hugh!

I went to the window,

and I looked in the window.

And I saw a table...

with wine glasses and candles...

and dinner set for eight people.

I saw...

Oh, my God.

Right. Okay, f*** you, Hugh.

- I saw...

- Bullshit.

- Did you guys come and f*** with this door?

- F*** you, Kevin.

Did you come to the side door?

No. You went to the side

door at the other house.

They wouldn't answer

the door, so I went...

Bullshit.

You dipshits walked in a circle

and knocked on this door.

I did not walk in a f***ing circle!

I went two blocks.

We went up to that house.

I knocked at the door.

Nobody answered, so I went

and banged on the side door.

- Did you see yourself, Hugh?

- No, I did not see myself.

- No, because you weren't there.

- I did not go in a circle!

F***. Just calm down.

I don't believe this.

This still doesn't

explain the pictures.

What's on the back of them?

Numbers.

They're all...

We've got two, one, one.

That's five.

- Whoa, whoa, whoa. Where are you going?

- I'm gonna go back over there.

- Whoa.

- No, no, no. Think about it.

I'm gonna go back over there. I'm

gonna ask to use their phone...

and, hopefully, I can get

in touch with my brother.

And if they're not there,

I'll just leave a note. Right?

No.

No, no, no. That makes sense. Right?

- You should not go back.

- It's fine. It'll be fine.

It'll be f***ing fine.

What's a note going to do?

If these people have pictures

of us, they might be crazy.

Sh*t! There's someone out there.

There's someone out there.

- What?

- Oh, my God.

Oh, there's a big guy at the door.

- Oh, my God.

- At the door?

What should we do?

He's walking away. He's walking away.

Please, please.

Baby, please be careful.

Oh, my God.

- Baby.

- Careful.

- Sh*t.

- What?

What is it, babe?

"Hey, there. Don't mean

to freak you guys out,

but we just wanted to borrow

your phone for five minutes tops.

Thanks."

Two kinds.

Regular Band-Aid or cloth?

Whatever.

Cloth. Okay. Here we go.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

These are ones. This is a two.

We are four, five, six.

Do you have any red markers?

Okay. Why are these three ones?

- This is a six. Five.

- Hugh and Lee.

Two.

Four.

And that's the same picture.

Oh, my God.

Somebody cut that in half.

Where are these from?

Could this be like numerology?

Like if you add up

all the numbers...

in your name and the birthday...

Like life path numbers

or something like that?

If that's the case, then they're just

crazy and it doesn't matter anyway.

So, what do all the

ones have in common?

Um, we have Lee...

Date of birth?

- Oldest to youngest?

- There's no three?

- There's no three.

- There's no three.

Is there someone... Is there

someone that would want to be...

doing this to us?

Is there someone that is

on someone's bad side?

What? This was taken tonight.

What? How do you know that?

I bought this sweater today,

so that's from tonight.

Has anyone taken a

picture of you tonight?

Someone took a picture of you

when you were looking at the box.

You were looking into the lens.

But then it was already in the box.

What is that?

I can't tell what that is.

There's dots on the wall

and there's a lampshade.

None of the others are

from tonight. Right?

No. This our picture.

This is from last fall.

- This picture of Amir was taken over here.

- How do you know that?

- He's standing in front of this drum.

- Guys, hang on.

I can't figure out what this is.

It's taken from the door?

So, from behind the curtain?

It's taken from over there.

Wait. When someone knocked

on the door, were you there?

You were gone.

But you're looking

right at the camera.

So, it would be from

that door, then. Right?

You don't remember... I mean,

this is you, man. This is you.

Guys, this isn't going

to solve anything.

What're you doing?

I need a drink.

I need something.

The... The pictures?

All right. Me too.

It looks like my handwriting, babe.

Look at this.

It looks like I wrote this.

Okay, relax.

You're starting to freak me out.

That's your handwriting.

What is going on?

I feel like I'm losing my mind.

I can't stop thinking about

the fact that you...

brought up a story you

shared with Laurie.

Of all the stories

that you could've...

All the experiences

that we've shared,

you brought up a story about her?

- I am so sorry.

- In front of everyone.

It's a crazy story. We don't

have stories like that.

Oh, they're not crazy

enough for you.

Baby, it's a good thing.

Oh, God.

I don't need crazy stories

like that anymore.

All right. Hey, um, f*** this.

Let's just... Let's go.

I'm gonna go over there

and, theoretically,

let's go see if our

theoretical selves are there.

No, no, no. I'm going.

I'm in. There's some weird

stuff happening here.

I think we should...

- I think we should evaluate...

- Please, can we...

- I just evaluated and I'm going.

- Can we stay here?

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James Ward Byrkit

James Ward Byrkit (also known as Jim Byrkit and James Byrkit) is an American film director and writer, known for the science fiction thriller Coherence (2013) and the Academy Award-winning film Rango (2011). Byrkit was the conceptual artist on the first three films of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and designed some of the most iconic sequences of the series. Byrkit also directed the short film Tales of the Code: Wedlocked (2011) a prequel to Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003).Byrkit's debut feature Coherence earned critical and audience praise around the world and maintains a rating of 88% on Rotten Tomatoes. Byrkit also garnered significant attention for his unconventional approach in the making of the film, as "proof that inventive filmmakers can do a lot with a little" and identifying him as a groundbreaking talent. more…

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