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Synchronicity | 2016 | R | - 5.4.5
Sci-fi film about a scientist who creates a wormhole, hoping to use it to travel in time. Complications arise and the scientist wonders if he has traveled instead to the past of a parallel universe, when he runs into another version of himself. With Chad McKnight, Brianne Davis, AJ Bowen, Scott Poythress and Michael Ironside. Directed by Jacob Gentry. [1:41]
SEX/NUDITY 5 - A man and a woman kiss and the woman lies back across a table knocking books to the floor as the man moves between her legs and opens his shirt (we see him wearing a T-shirt under the shirt) and sex is implied (we see the woman sleeping in bed partially covered by a sheet later (bare legs and shoulders are legs are shown). A man watches from a window as a woman and another man have sex (we see them kiss and he lifts her up as she wraps her legs around his waist (we see her bare back to the hips (no buttocks are shown). A woman wearing a long robe walks toward a man as she opens the robe and wraps it around him (it is implied that she is nude under the robe; we do not see any nudity and it is implied that they have sex).
► A woman wears a skirt and a crop top that reveals part of her bare abdomen. A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage in a bar scene. A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage, bare shoulders and bare back. A woman wears a short dress that reveals her bare shoulders and legs to the thighs. A woman wears a low-cut top that reveals cleavage and bare shoulders with boy shorts that reveal bare lower buttocks and bare legs. A man is shown in bed wearing boxers and his bare chest, abdomen, back and legs are seen when he gets up.
► A man wraps his arm around a woman from behind and touches her abdomen, and then kisses her bare shoulder. A man kisses a woman, they kiss again and then again in the back of a taxi; we then see them in the woman's apartment where they continue to kiss (we see her wearing a sheer top that reveals her bra through the fabric) and then the man leaves. A man and a woman lie in bed together (presumably after sex) and we see their upper back. A man and a woman kiss in the distance. A woman kisses a man on the cheek. A man kisses a woman on the bare shoulder. A man comes out of a room buckling his belt and zipping his pants (it is implied that he had sex with a woman; he is married to someone else). A clothed woman lies down with a clothed man. A woman wearing a long robe opens one side to reveal her bare leg to the hip as she endeavors to seduce a man. A man and a woman flirt in a bar.
► A woman tells a man that she was having sex with another man. A man tells another man that a woman was having sex with someone else (using crude terms). A man asks another man if he has ever been to a Native American orgy.
VIOLENCE/GORE 4 - A man wearing only boxers lies dead on a bed and we see that his skin is discolored and his eyes are open. A bare-chested man lies dead, covered by a sheet from the waist down. During an experiment a bright burst of light fills the screen and a man collapses on the floor; he awakens later with a highlighter in his mouth as a colleague tells him he worried that he was having a seizure. A man runs toward a bright light during an experiment; we do not see what happens to him, but see him later running out of the lab seemingly unharmed.
► A man hears loud, high-pitched sounds and grimaces while holding his head in several scenes throughout the movie. A man grunts and collapses on the floor (he wakes up later seemingly OK). A man looks ill in several scenes (he is sweaty and stooped) and has tremors.
► People wearing protective suits move around a piece of equipment in a dimly lit area while bursts of steam spurt around them; they practice and then implement the movement of a sensitive item while a man talks about containment and causing a thermonuclear explosion.
► Two men argue over a business deal. A man talks about a radiation leak or the possible collapse of the universe. A woman calls a man and tells him that another man is having seizures and coughing up blood. A woman tells a man to leave her house. A reference is made to "space cancer." A man tells a woman that another man has 48 hours to live. A man says, "A gun is to my head, but I am not going to pull the trigger." A woman says that a man died in an explosion.
► A man coughs violently and vomits blood (we hear him gagging and see goo). A man injects another man with a serum to help him with the symptoms as he is dying; the man injects himself a couple more times and we see a mark on his arm after one injection.
LANGUAGE 5 - About 9 F-words, 4 sexual references, 5 scatological terms, 5 anatomical terms, 3 mild obscenities, name-calling (psychotic), 1 religious exclamation (Oh My God).
SUBSTANCE USE - A man tells another man to stop popping pills. A man holds an alcoholic beverage at a dinner table (we do not see him drink), a woman drinks several shots of alcohol in a bar and a man drinks one, a woman says that she could kill a whole bottle right now (champagne), a man is shown with a beer on a table in a restaurant, and a man buys a woman a drink in a bar. A woman smokes a cigarette outside a building in several scenes, a woman smokes cigarettes in a few bar scenes, a woman smokes a cigarette in bed, a man lights a woman's cigarette and she smokes it outside a building, and a man smokes a cigarette in a hotel room.
DISCUSSION TOPICS - Time travel, greed, investors, the Big Bang, venture capitalists, Tesla vs. Edison, trust, logic, reasoning, forces of nature, relationships, past, future, changing fate, god complex, life choices, alternate timelines.
MESSAGE - Time is our only real currency. To operate sophisticated machinery, one should be able to tell the difference between left and right.
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