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Looper
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Looper is a 2012 science fiction, action, and drama film directed and written by Rian Johnson. The cast includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, and Paul Dano. Ram Bergman produced the film, which was distributed by TriStar Pictures. The narrative takes place in Kansas, Missouri, and Shanghai, with filming conducted in Shanghai and New Orleans. The movie is in English and originates from the United States and China.
The film has a runtime of 119 minutes and was released on September 26, 2012. It received an R rating. Critical reception included a Metascore of 84 and a Rotten Tomatoes score of 93%. On IMDb, it holds a rating of 7.4 based on 629,134 votes. The production had a budget of $30,000,000 and earned $176,506,819 at the box office.
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6.9In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented but in 30 years it will have been. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target into the past where a looper, a hired gun, like Joe is waiting to mop up. Joe is getting rich and life is good until the day the mob decides to close the loop, sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
Cast
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Joe
- Bruce Willis as Old Joe
- Emily Blunt as Sara
- Paul Dano as Seth
- Noah Segan as Kid Blue
- Piper Perabo as Suzie
Themes
- future
- suicide
- assassin
- dystopia
- drug addiction
- time travel
- retirement
- tragedy
- murder
- organized crime
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Ratings
IMDb
7.4/10
624,435 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Metacritic
84/100
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Genres
- Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 18 wins & 47 nominations total
via OMDb · IMDb
Key facts
- Directed by
- Rian Johnson
- Written by
- Rian Johnson
- Produced by
- Ram Bergman James D. Stern
- Starring
- Bruce Willis Joseph Gordon-Levitt Emily Blunt Paul Dano Noah Segan Piper Perabo Jeff Daniels
- Cinematography
- Steve Yedlin
- Edited by
- Bob Ducsay
- Music by
- Nathan Johnson
- Production companies
- Endgame Entertainment DMG Entertainment Ram Bergman Productions
- Distributed by
- TriStar Pictures (United States) FilmNation Entertainment (International)
- Release dates
- September 6, 2012 ( 2012-09-06 ) ( TIFF ) September 28, 2012 ( 2012-09-28 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 118 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $30 million
- Box office
- $176.5 million
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
LOOPER | Sony Pictures Entertainment
In the year 2044, time travel has not yet been invented. But in 30 years it will have been... In director Rian Johnson’s sensational action thriller, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) works as a looper, a futuristic assassin who eliminates targets sent back in time by a criminal organization.
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Encyclopedic overview
Looper is a 2012 American science fiction action thriller film written and directed by Rian Johnson, and produced by Ram Bergman and James D. Stern. It stars Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. It revolves around "present-day" contract killers called "loopers" whose targets are sent back through time by criminal syndicates from the future.
Looper was selected as the opening film of the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on September 28, 2012, by a partnership between TriStar Pictures and FilmDistrict. The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success, grossing $176 million worldwide on a $30 million budget.
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