I'll Follow You Down
I'll Follow You Down
PG-13 | 05 August 2014 (USA)
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After the disappearance of a young scientist on a business trip, his son and wife struggle to cope, only to make a bizarre discovery years later - one that may bring him home.

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suite92

The Three Acts: The initial tableaux: Erol's father Gabriel leaves for a routine trip. When Erol and Marika wait for his return at the airport, he does not arrive. Marika and Sal search to no avail.Twelve years pass. Sal has done a huge amount of background work to replicate an experiment that he knew Gabriel wanted to attempt involving time travel. Sal enlists Erol's help in finishing the details.Delineation of conflicts: Erol's girlfriend Grace is against the attempt, since she thinks their current life will be lost. Sal wants Erol to continue, since Sal hopes to 'correct' the timeline. Marika struggles with her loss.Resolution: Supposing Erol can construct the wormhole, will he be able to convince Gabriel to alter his course?

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echofalls-21269

Anyone who gives this over an average rating has absolutely no concept of time travel. Whatever happened has happened! You cannot go back in time without it already have happened!! Hence you cannot go back in time. You could - according to Stephen Hawking and Albert Einstein himself - only possibly go forward. This film was poor on so many different levels that it was very nearly pathetic. Also on a side note....how the hell does an iPad work back in time?? Disgraceful movie.

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lesley_givens

I am super fascinated by the idea of time travel and have seen every single movie on the subject. Maybe that's why I am always expecting to finally find something new, original, something I haven't seen in like 20 other movies.Unfortunately, I failed to find it in this one. Everything was so painfully predictable that I had plenty of "facepalm" moments, which is never a good sign.It's a shame, because 90% of the reviews were positive and I had great expectations. This is exactly why I usually never go through the reviews.All in all - bad acting, bad cast, weak movie. I saw it yesterday and I already forgot what was it about!

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lavatch

This low-budget film out of Canada combines a clever time-travel premise with an abundance of sentimentality. Haley Joel Osment is good as the young time-traveler/scientist, who journeys through time from 2012 to 1946, to meet with the father whom he lost in the same wormhole.Gillian Anderson is also good as the bereaved wife of a husband whose secret life as a time-traveler she never knew. The plot is unfortunately mired in an unnecessary relationship of Osment's character Erol and his girlfriend, who seeks to persuade him not to take the plunge into the time warp in search of his lost father.SPOILER ALERT FOLLOWS: A golden opportunity was missed when young Erol meets his father at the moment when he attempts to have a private conversation with Albert Einstein. The father knocks on Einstein's door in Princeton, N.J. in 1946, but Einstein is out for a walk. Incredibly, the filmmakers do not follow through with what could have been a great scene with the iconic scientist.Some of the best scenes were those of young Osment with Victor Garber's character of Gramps, who is working with him on the time machine. But filled with melodramatic scenes, especially the shocking ending, "I'll Follow You Down" is overwhelmed with maudlin and mundane moments that detract from the excitement of what should have been the single-minded focus of the film: time travel.

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