Looper
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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.
Released: 2012-09-26118 minDir: Rian JohnsonAction, Thriller, Science Fiction
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
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Ratings · OMDb
IMDb
7.4/10
624,435 votes
Rotten Tomatoes
93%
Metacritic
84/100
- Rated
- R
- Awards
- 18 wins & 47 nominations total
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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
Key dates
- Published
- 3 October 2012
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Genre
- drama film
- Country of origin
- China
- Original language
- English language
- Main subject
- time loop
- Director
- Rian Johnson
- Screenwriter
- Rian Johnson
- Cast member
- Xu Qing
- Composer
- Nathan Johnson
Article
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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2010s films about time travel2012 American films2012 English-language films2012 films2012 science fiction action filmsAmerican crime thriller filmsAmerican dystopian filmsAmerican independent filmsAmerican science fiction thriller filmsEnglish-language science fiction action filmsFilmDistrict filmsFilms about contract killing