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Synchronic Movie Storyline. New Orleans paramedics Steve (Anthony Mackie) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan) stumble upon a bizarre plot involving a series of drug-related deaths, in Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead’s (Spring, The Endless) stylish and genre-bending new film. When New Orleans paramedics and close friends Steve (Anthony Mackie, also at the Festival with Seberg) and Dennis (Jamie Dornan, also at the Festival with Endings, Beginnings) arrive on the scene for what seems like a typical overdose, they end up stumbling upon a bizarre plot that will take them down a most unexpected path.
The common denominator in a series of grisly, drug-related deaths is a synthetic narcotic known as synchronic, which has some extreme side effects that don’t just alter consciousness. When Dennis’ teenage daughter (Ally Ioannides) tries synchronic and goes missing, Steve, who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer, aims to discover the truth behind the killer drug and inadvertently sets off on a journey to find her — one that leaves him reckoning with his own identity. In what is either a bad trip or a breakthrough, Steve dives deeper and deeper, coming face to face with his place in history as well as the present.
Directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (Spring, The Endless) mix mindbending set pieces with a dark, neo-noir tone to create this stylish, original, impeccably crafted thriller. Balancing a serious treatment of character with a playful approach to popular genres, SYNCHRONIC is both suspenseful and subversive. Here is a complex and humanistic story about how easily we can lose our grip on reality — and about one man’s intense battle to come back from the brink.
Synchronic is a 2019 American science fiction thriller film written and directed by Justin Benson, and produced by Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. It stars Anthony Mackie and Jamie Dornan. It had its world premiere at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival. It was released on October 23, 2020, by Well GO USA Entertainment. It was released on Netflix in some countries on April 16, 2021.
Synchronic (2020)
Directed by: Justin Benson, Aaron Moorhead
Starring: Jamie Dornan, Anthony Mackie, Ally Ioannides, Katie Aselton, Bill Oberst Jr., Natasha Tina Liu, Martin Bats, Devyn A. Tyler, Betsy Holt, Shane Brady, Sophia Howell, Rosé Belara Young
Screenplay by: Justin Benson
Production Design by: Ariel Vida
Cinematography by: Aaron Moorhead
Film Editing by: Aaron Moorhead, Justin Benson
Costume Design by: Laura Cristina Ortiz
Set Decoration by: Abigail Sanford
Art Direction by: Kati Simon
Music by: Jimmy LaValle
MPAA Rating: R for drug content and language throughout, and for some violent/bloody images.
Distributed by: Well Go USA
Release Date: October 23, 2020 (United States)
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