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Predestination

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Directed by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig
Produced by Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig, Paddy McDonald, and Tim McGahan
Written by Michael Spierig and Peter Spierig
With: Ethan Hawke, Sarah Snook, Christopher Kirby, Christopher Sommers, Kuni Hashimoto, Sara El-Yafi, and Paul Moder
Cinematography: Ben Nott
Editing: Matt Villa
Music: Peter Spierig
Runtime: 97 min
Release Date: 09 January 2015
Aspect Ratio: 2.35 : 1
Color: Color
Twitter Capsule:
When it comes to predictable, unsatisfying, overly-twisty time-travel movies, this is the greatest to come along in decades! Ethan Hawke is terrific, and Sarah Snook gives a star-making performance. Though nothing comes as a surprise, you are nonetheless riveted by the characters and the directorial style—at least until the inevitable letdown that most any film based on a Robert A. Heinlein short story like this will undoubtedly deliver. I can only imagine how much more effective this must have been to read rather than experience as a movie, but I commend the effort.