Line #20 Film/Repeaters


1	''Repeaters'' is a 2010 movie about three young residents of a rehabilitation facility. One day when they are supposed to be out making amends for past mistakes, they all fail. That evening they are all hit by a shock of electricity and find themselves in a GroundhogDayLoop. The movie explores how three addicts would react given total freedom from their actions.
2
3	!Tropes in this film include
4	* AppliedPhlebotinum: A [[LightningCanDoAnything spark of electricity]] affecting the three of them seperately but simultaneously causes the time loop. This is never revisited, never explained.
5	* BrokenRecord: "Kyle! 7:30!"
6	* BungledSuicide: [[spoiler: Michael, in the {{Stinger}}.]]
7	* CanNotSpitItOut: Kyle spends more time ''saying'' he just wants to talk and arguing about the need to talk than actually talking.
8	* CardboardPrison: Given it's rehab, not jail, but what FREEDOM this rehab gives! Keep your truck in the parking lot! Go out for a smoke whenever, with no guards! Doors aren't locked. Go to the boiler room whenever you want! [[spoiler: It's okay, no one ever checks it for people sneaking drugs - let alone men left there all day tied to chairs!]]
9	* ComedicSociopathy: The liquor store robbing scene.
10	* CPRCleanPrettyReliable: Averted. Usually the recipients of failed CPR don't end up remembering it the next day.
11	* CursedWithAwesome[=/=]BlessedWithSuck: Sonia and Kyle have bouts of this. Matthew, not so much.
12	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Michael, in the end.]]
13	* EarnYourHappyEnding: Resolving your issues breaks the loop. [[spoiler: Even for the people who have no intention of doing so.]]
14	* EpiphanicPrison: The time loop can be thought of as this.
15	* {{Foreshadowing}}: When Kyle finally goes and speaks to his sister, he notices the news is reporting there are two police dead in town. [[spoiler: when the day doesn't loop - those deaths still stand.]]
16	* AGodAmI: The three go through some of this. [[spoiler: Michael never quite gets over it.]]
17	* GroundhogDayLoop: for three people at the same time.
18	* {{Jerkass}}: [[spoiler: Michael develops into this over the movie.]]
19	* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: The two police officers reported dead on the news - probably by Weeks - the day before the loop doesn't repeat.]]
20	* MagicRealism: Everything just goes on as normal, except for the looping of the three.
21	* MoodWhiplash: Everyone's having fun until things stop being fun.
22	* NobodyPoops: Averted. "I'm sitting in a puddle of my own piss."
23	* NotSoAboveItAll: Bob is seen carrying a [[Literature/TheBible Bible]] and works for a rehabilitation facility, but at his house he has booze and porn.
24	* NothingLeftToDoButDie: [[spoiler: Once they've robbed a store, broken the law, tried dangerous drugs...]]
25	* OddlySmallOrganization: Bob is the ''only'' known authority figure in charge of the whole rehab facility with over fifty residents.
26	* OhCrap: [[spoiler: It starts to snow.]]
27	* PlotTwist: See OhCrap. [[spoiler: As opposed to most GroundhogDayLoop stories, in this one ''no one realizes the loop has stopped'' until it's too late!]]
28	* PornStash: Bob has one.
29	* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: Michael. It's debatable if he's ''really'' lost it when he's in the loop - he's certainly not nice, but he could just be continuing to exploit it - but when he realizes the loop has ended and he's still been killing people, hooooo boy.]]
30	* TheStinger: [[spoiler: Michael woke up again.]]
31	* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: [[spoiler: The three just have to do what they were supposed to do in the first place - make peace with their families.]]
32	* TimeTravelingJerkass: '''Michael'''. Once he realizes he's trapped in a time loop, he more or less goes berserk, indulging in armed robbery, murder, [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil rape]], and several other crimes before [[spoiler: committing suicide once the loop ends. Too bad he's still trapped in another one]].
33	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Each time the trio repeats, there's an image of children playing on a beach. This is never explained.
34	* WhamLine: [[spoiler:"It didn't snow today..."]]

Context Film / Repeaters