Identicals

Synopsis: The organization Brand New-U identifies networks of IDENTICALS - people who walk like you, talk like you, but are walking through different, better lives - and helps their customers make a life upgrade: eliminating the better-life donor, and relocating their client to that brand new life. Slater seems to have the perfect life, the perfect job and the perfect girlfriend. But when Slater's girlfriend is abducted by Brand New-U, and a corpse left in her place, he is forced to become an Identical. As he moves through a series of parallel lives, he becomes more and more obsessed with finding his girlfriend, but what he must find in the end is himself.
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Director(s): Simon Pummell
Production: Hot Property Films
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.0
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Year:
2015
100 min
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1

There's a better

life waiting for us.

Something else.

There's a better life

for us somewhere else.

Somewhere else.

There's a better

life waiting for us.

There's a better life

for us somewhere else.

- Somebody else.

- Somebody else.

- Somewhere else.

- Somewhere else.

There's a better

life waiting for us.

- Somebody else.

- Somebody else.

- Somewhere else.

- Somewhere else.

What do we believe?

There's a better life waiting for us.

Who?

Somebody else.

Where?

Somewhere else.

What do we believe?

There's a better life waiting for us.

Who?

Somebody else.

Where?

Somewhere else.

There's a better life waiting for us.

Somebody else.

Somewhere else.

You're looking in

the wrong direction.

What do we believe?

Who?

Where?

Hey.

Hi.

What do you think?

Yeah, yeah, it's amazing, huh?

It is amazing.

Yeah, it's like a secret garden.

Looks magic.

Yes. No, no, completely empty until...

Okay, all right.

Um... So I'll see you later?

Yes, I'll see you later.

Oh, no, wait, uh, did you get a package?

So you think you're all grown

up, ready for adventures?

You need a magic key.

So now you've reached the door,

you just need to believe in me.

I know it's not been easy

between us these last months.

But whatever happens,

I will always love you.

And if we follow our hearts

it will all fall into place.

I promise you.

You just have to trust me.

Happy birthday.

Open.

I love you.

Okay.

- Three...

- Oh, no!

One.

Don't you trust me?

Okay.

All right. Come closer. Okay, ready?

Three, two, one.

There is a better life waiting for us.

Somebody else.

Somewhere else.

Yeah, it's the middle of

the f***ing night, what?

Wait! Take it easy.

Where is she?

Okay, okay, okay, okay! Where is... I'm...

Where is she?

There's no one else here.

There's no one else here,

it's just me. It's just me.

Where is she?

There's just no one here, you see.

It's just me.

There's no one here.

Where the f*** is she?

Downstairs, move. Outside!

- No!

- Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey!

Take your hands off her, get

your f***ing hands off her now!

- I'll blow her f***ing brains out!

- Take your hands off her!

I'll blow her f***ing brains out!

No! No!

You try and follow me, I'll

blow her f***ing brains out.

Slater! No!

- Help me!

- Get in!

Are you listening?

I'm listening.

Are you listening?

Are you listening?

I'm listening.

If you want Nadia to be

safe then you need to listen

and you need to do

exactly what we tell you.

I'm listening.

You need to go back to the house.

Are you listening, Slater?

You need to go back to the house.

Now.

Seriously. Seriously...

Are you listening...

If you want Nadia to be safe then...

Seri... Na...

Hello, Slater.

The dead woman you're

looking at is not Nadia.

The dead woman you're

looking at is not Nadia.

Nadia is alive.

Are you listening, Slater?

To keep her alive, you

must come and talk to us.

Are you listening, Slater?

Go to the window at the front.

What will the police think, Slater?

Are you standing over the

body of your dead girlfriend?

Who are you?

Brand New-U.

Brand New-U.

Brand New-U.

Brand New-U.

A new franchise.

Other self-help programs

tell you to change yourself.

It's hard work.

It never works.

We offer to help

you find a new life.

One better suited to your needs.

Lose all your problems

and start over.

Brand new.

We say, get a brand new life

and you'll feel different.

Act different.

Be different.

And better.

We are a cooperative undertaking.

Taking control of our lives.

Through helping each other.

You found us.

That means you need us.

Brand New-U.

Brand New-U.

Brand New-U.

Brand New-U.

A new franchise.

Other self-help programs

tell you to change yourself.

It's hard work.

It never works.

We offer to help

you find a new life.

One better suited to your needs.

Lose all your problems

and start over.

Brand new.

We say, get a brand new life

and you'll feel different.

Act different.

Be different.

And better.

We are a cooperative undertaking.

Taking control of our lives.

Good morning.

Act different.

Be different.

And better.

We are a cooperative undertaking.

Taking control of our lives.

Through helping each other.

You found us.

That means you need us.

Brand New-U.

I'm happy you made the choice

to come in today, Slater.

Where's Nadia?

We said we would keep her

safe if you came in today.

- What does that even mean?

- And I can give you my word...

What does that...

...she is safe, even happy.

I... She's not happy.

Where is she?

Let me tell you about identicals.

No! Where is she?

Let me tell you about identicals.

Stop! Stop! Stop!

What the f*** are you talking about?

Small things change lives.

It's a small thing.

What's a small thing?

They didn't know you were gonna be there.

If all had gone well, if she had

opened the door and not you, well,

you'd now be happily

living with a new Nadia.

Yeah, okay, so there's a new Nadia.

Do you... Do you hear

what I'm trying to say?

I don't... I don't want a new Nadia,

I didn't want a new Nadia. I

want to know where my Nadia is.

Please. Please just tell

me you have my Nadia.

Two Nadias in the same life

space, that's just not possible.

You have the dead Nadia now.

What the f*** is a life space?

You have the dead Nadia now.

My girlfriend is not dead!

Police have identified

the body of a young woman

found at the house in this

street as Nadia Seville.

They're also searching for a man

believed to be her boyfriend.

His name's Slater Brenner.

We've spoken to neighbors

here in the street,

they said they heard the sound of

a struggle earlier this morning.

Police are treating

this as suspicious

and asked anybody with information

to contact them in

the incident room.

The number is 08081570570.

Live at the scene, I'm

Anthony Davis. Back to you.

That's... That's not my girlfriend.

We believe your story.

We're trying to help you.

I didn't do anything! I didn't do anything.

Let me tell you about identicals.

You just met one tonight, briefly.

That's not my girlfriend, that's...

Let me explain our core service.

We help customers look for that person

who looks like them, talks

like them, walks like them.

Identicals.

Identicals, but who are walking through

a more enjoyable, better life situation,

and then we support our customers

in the acquisition of that better life.

Okay.

What the f*** are you talking about?

Yes, I know.

No. What the f*** are you talking about?

Yes, I understand.

These are difficult concepts,

but try and listen.

Nadia took a new life, Slater,

she's already moved forward

without looking back.

You now have a dead

Nadia in your life space.

Okay.

You will only ever have a

dead Nadia in this life space.

We can't roll back time.

You can't roll back time, yeah.

But we can try and help you.

You could let me profile

you, help you to move forward.

Identity cleanse.

You could find love again.

And what if I don't want to do that?

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Simon Pummell

Simon Pummell is a British filmmaker currently based in Amsterdam in The Netherlands, best known for directing Bodysong (2003) a documentary feature film that portrays the human life-cycle through archive footage from across a century of moving image creation.He studied Film & Television in the animation department at the Royal College of Art. more…

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