Time Cut

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Time Cut
Time Cut film poster.jpg
Release poster
Directed byHannah MacPherson
Screenplay by
Story byMichael Kennedy
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyTony Mirza
Edited by
  • Ken Blackwell
  • Joe Landauer
Music byAnna Drubich
Production
company
ACE Entertainment
Distributed by Netflix
Release date
  • October 30, 2024 (2024-10-30)
Running time
92 minutes [1]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Time Cut is a 2024 American science fiction slasher film directed by Hannah MacPherson, who co-wrote the screenplay with Michael Kennedy. It stars Madison Bailey, Antonia Gentry, and Griffin Gluck.

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The plot follows Lucy, a teenage girl who accidentally travels back in time to 2003 and attempts to save her older sister from a masked killer.

The film was released by Netflix on October 30, 2024.

Plot

On April 18, 2003, in the small town of Sweetly, Minnesota, high school senior Summer Field unenthusiastically attends the senior class celebration Spring Fling, as her close friends Emmy, Brian, and Val were recently murdered by a serial killer dubbed the Sweetly Slasher. Her lifelong friend Quinn tries to give her an envelope, but Summer brushes him off, and does the same when her recent ex-boyfriend Ethan asks her to dance. While Summer is in a back bathroom, the police are shutting down the party and everyone is rushing out the front. A masked figure lunges at her with a knife, so she escapes out back towards a barn, where he takes her down.

Twenty-one years later, high school student and amateur inventor Lucy Field feels largely invisible, as the town and her parents are fixated on the date of Summer's death, the town having been torn apart by the murders. Downtown has been left decrepit, people continue to talk about the unsolved murders, and Lucy accompanies her parents to the small shrine to the victims in front of the barn.

Noticing a light flash from a nearby hay barn, Lucy finds a time machine and accidentally travels back to the year 2003, two days before her sister Summer was murdered by the Slasher. Disoriented by how not rundown Sweetly is, she goes to the high school to consult with her mentor, science teacher Mr. Fleming. Quinn overhears her asking about time travel, and insists it is too irresponsible to undertake.

Shortly afterwards, when Quinn is swept up by a wave of students to be this year's victim of the senior prank, Lucy intervenes. She stops the group and sweeps Ethan onto his back. Quinn is initially resentful, but she soon confides in him that she accidentally came from the future via the time machine. Knowing he is good at physics, Lucy enlists his help in refueling it.

When Quinn has to head out to his mall job, Lucy asks for a lift to her house, surprising him, as he did not realize the connection. She is invited in under the guise of helping Summer with her chemistry homework. The house and her parents are very different—it is messy, her parents are easygoing, and Summer and her mother cook together daily. Later, the Slasher murders Val and Brian at the mall, but Lucy's attempt to intervene results in the murder of a security guard who had not originally died.

Summer eventually discovers the truth and works with Lucy and Quinn to save Emmy from the Slasher. At the same time, Lucy discovers that Quinn is in love with Summer, the letter that he had tried to give her being a confession of this. While Lucy and Quinn steal fuel for the time machine, Summer attends the dance where she publicly confesses her love for Emmy. The Slasher attacks Summer in the barn, but Lucy and Quinn save her life.

The Slasher is revealed to be a future Quinn from an alternate timeline, having been driven insane by the rejection and bullying that he had endured. He had traveled back in time, seeking revenge on Summer and her friends, inadvertently creating Lucy as a result of the hole that Summer's death had left in their parents' lives. Lucy transports herself and the future Quinn back to 2024 where she electrocutes and stabs him to death.

Discovering that she does not exist in this new, better timeline, Lucy decides to return to 2003 to live her life in the past with Summer and Quinn, landing an internship with NASA similar to the one that she got in her original timeline. In her personal statement, Lucy displays a more optimistic outlook on life than she did originally.

Cast

Production

In May 2021, it was announced that a script written by Michael Kennedy and Sono Patel would be directed by Hannah MacPherson. [a] Madison Bailey and Antonia Gentry were the first cast members announced to star in the film. [3] Additional cast members were revealed when a 2024 release was announced. [4]

Filming was to take place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada between June 21 and July 28, 2021. [5] Principal photography eventually began on July 6 and ended in August, with cinematography work done by Tony Mirza and Halyna Hutchins before Hutchins worked on her final film, Rust . [6] [7] [8] [9] The production of Time Cut used unloaded guns, yet the firearms safety personnel still followed standard safety precautions to ensure the entire cast and crew was aware. [8]

Release

Time Cut was released on Netflix on October 30, 2024. [10]

Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , 25% of 32 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4/10. [11] Metacritic , which uses a weighted average , assigned the film a score of 36 out of 100, based on nine critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews. [12]

Notes

  1. ↑ The final credits by the Writers Guild of America give Sono Patel "additional literary material (not on-screen)", along with JT Billings and Ian Shorr. [2]

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