Things Will Be Different

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Things Will Be Different

Released Oct 4, 2024

1h 42m

Sci-Fi

Mystery & Thriller

Horror

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When estranged siblings Joseph (Adam David Thompson) and Sidney (Riley Dandy) rendezvous at a local diner after a close-call robbery, they hightail it to an abandoned farmhouse that transports them to a different time in order to escape the law. Their getaway is derailed when an unknown and cryptic metaphysical force emerges and blocks them from returning home. Trapped on the puzzling plot of land, their captor makes it clear that no one can leave until their deadly demands are met. What results from their entrapment not only bends the forces of spacetime--forcing the two to question everything they know about their own reality--but pushes their familial bonds to the breaking point.

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Critics Consensus

A small film brimming with big ideas, Things Will Be Different effectively teases the brain while shredding the nerves.

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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

Thompson and Dandy are outstanding physical actors, not just in scenes of hand-to-hand combat and gunplay but in quiet moments where they eat a meal or talk about their pasts.

Rated: 3.5/4

Oct 5, 2024

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Kevin Maher

Times (UK)

But sometimes necessity is just necessity, and here, as the scattershot plot advances... the film is crying out for a splash of CGI, a practical effect, another location, anything.

Rated: 2/5

Oct 5, 2024

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Carlos Aguilar

Variety

Even if the balance between the high concept and the human component falters at times, Things Will Be Different is an auspicious effort to amalgamate what touches the heart and what tickles the brain.

Oct 4, 2024

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John Serba

Decider

Things Will Be Different injects enough substance into the usual twisty fodder to make it worthwhile.

Feb 28, 2025

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Dennis Schwartz

Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews

The bleak movie never aims to be logical.

Rated: B

Nov 25, 2024

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Carla Hay

Culture Mix

Things Will Be Different has an ambitious time-traveling concept revolving around a brother and a sister. Unfortunately, this botched sci-fi drama gets caught up in being too mysterious for viewers to care what happens to these underdeveloped characters.

Nov 19, 2024

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All Things F

Interesting premise. But, like a lot of good ideas that aren't fleshed out, it turns into a mess of unexplained inconsistencies and giant plot holes. At one point she says she doesn't want her daughter to grow up without her. Yet, she's traveled through time and now assumes she's getting back when it's made clear that going back in time is not as easy as it seems. This is the sort of story that belongs in an episodic series that allows a building of the backstory that cannot be fixed with a couple expositional conversations between the two protagonists.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/28/25

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Jeffrey P

Lacks depth and any good explaination or resolution.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/20/25

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Dave N

Interesting and hooks you with the sense of mystery it creates, but then it explains nothing. By the end you are just left with more questions and a feeling you've probably wasted a couple of hours.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

03/13/25

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Rachel M

This movie … ugh. So many holes and confusing. The suspense/mystery part was intriguing but by the time it was over I felt like I wasted my time. The writing and character motivations often didn’t make sense to me. I had to go to Reddit to get any kind of answers and even there it was all guesswork. It’s not like I missed something.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/13/25

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Orlando C

I'm sure there's a very interesting movie in here, somewhere, full of nuance, plot twists, foreshadowing, allegory and metaphors. Too bad it's all inside Michael Felker's brain. Maybe he'll do a reboot one day and let us all know about it.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

03/03/25

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Kat R

I didn't realize it while watching but somehow I missed the opening up until the point where the kids "drunkards"in the car are messing around on the house property and the leads chase them away. But watching it from the beginning didn't help my confusion as it's never explained about the brothers friend who gave him the notebook, or really anything else. I was hoping there was a book that I could read and get a better telling of the story. Suffice it to say I was simply confused about what they did and were trying to do and what the house was and who the people on the cassette player were. Nothing made sense especially the end where you know he's gone back dozens of times with the same result. Why would she shoot him from that? How about just leave the diner with the money and hide out in a hotel? Why did he show up at the diner at all? He could have shot himself. Nothing makes sense so it gets 3 stars for potential as a sci Fi story and for the actors and the set and scenes...it felt a little like MYST when they open the door and you are 1st person looking around a room with items from different times. That's about it.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

03/02/25

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Synopsis

When estranged siblings Joseph (Adam David Thompson) and Sidney (Riley Dandy) rendezvous at a local diner after a close-call robbery, they hightail it to an abandoned farmhouse that transports them to a different time in order to escape the law. Their getaway is derailed when an unknown and cryptic metaphysical force emerges and blocks them from returning home. Trapped on the puzzling plot of land, their captor makes it clear that no one can leave until their deadly demands are met. What results from their entrapment not only bends the forces of spacetime--forcing the two to question everything they know about their own reality--but pushes their familial bonds to the breaking point.

Director: Michael Felker
Producer: Shane Spiegel, Jacob Rosenthal, Michael Felker
Screenwriter: Michael Felker
Distributor: Magnet Releasing
Production Co: Rustic Films, Last Life
Genre: Sci-Fi, Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 4, 2024, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 4, 2024
Box Office (Gross USA): $4.0K
Runtime: 1h 42m

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