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MIND OUT OF TIME

Thriller - Development 2023

Following the arrival of a mysterious alien object in space, a brilliant scientist woman opens a Pandora's box in an attempt to save humanity from growing amnesia.

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& Awards

Golden Harvest Film Festival 2021

Best Feature Screenplay

Vegas Movie Awards 2021

Best Feature Screenplay

Fantasy/Sci-Fi Film & Writing Festival 2021

Winner

FilmCon Awards 2021

Best Feature Screenplay

L.A. Sci-Fi Film Festival 2021

Best Screenplay

HALO International Film Festival 2021

Best Feature Screenplay

Berlin Independent Film Festival 2022

Best Sci-Fi Script

Los Angeles Movie Awards 2022

Best Script

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Thriller, Science-fiction
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 10 - 25 M$
- Duration
- 115 mn
- Synopsis
- One beautiful day in June starts like any other day for 31-year-old US researcher Carole Wilson-Burton, who is at home with her English husband David, a fellow MIT Artificial Intelligence researcher. They’re making breakfast after his morning run, but this is no ordinary day. For a start, pop culture vulture Carole is about to switch on Charlie, the ‘autonomous unit’, AI-driven android she’s designed. Charlie’s awakening turns out to be a great triumph. Next, boss John Strickland expresses his concerns about his marriage during a picnic lunch, before confiding that he has secretly heard from a physicist friend Scott that an ‘alien’ object has been identified in the outer solar system.
  
  As Carole and John watch children argue in the playground, they wonder what could have the greater impact on humanity: artificial intelligence or alien intelligence. Later, Carole tells David about John’s news and his concerns. They agree that, come aliens or high water, they’ll keep their love alive. Following a restorative bout of passionate lovemaking, they fall into a dreamless sleep, ready to face whatever the world may throw at them.
  
  Then a blizzard of sounds and images fills Carol’s mind.
  
  She wakes up the ‘next day’, but nothing is right. David isn’t there and a disheveled and confused news anchorwoman, on a high-tech TV unfamiliar to Carole, reports that twelve years have passed for the entire world. One look in the mirror confirms the worst – she looks much older and is now blonde! Missing David’s cautionary notes, Carole dashes out to work, only to find a man in his twenties next door. He claims to be the neighbor’s son, Roy, who she knows is fourteen. It’s a nightmare and she can’t wake up.
  
  The nightmare continues as Carole attempts her normal walk to work, which turns out to be anything but normal – crashed cars litter dirty streets full of confused people and the river coughs up a crashed airliner. Carole runs home and is pursued by the very same boys that she had seen in the playground ‘the previous day’. The boys are now sex-obsessed, hormone-crazy teenagers with the minds of six-year-olds! The madness continues: driver-less cars appear to hunt her, but then attack her would-be rapists. During her flight Carole hits her head and passes out, only to be rescued by a David who is also twelve years older than she remembers him to be.
  
  David hurries her home in a driverless car and confirms the madness – twelve years have indeed gone by, because nine years before an ‘Event’ took place, an event that has progressively been robbing them of their memories, four days at a time! They have now regressed to the day after the day they both remember as ‘yesterday’, full of the excitement about Charlie’s turn on and John’s bombshell. David had been conferring with John at MIT, which is why he hadn’t been there for her earlier. For now they must get home because the memory wipe that happens at the same time every day is imminent. Carole is desperate to know what is causing this and whether it can be stopped. David asks if she remembers what John’s bombshell was and suddenly one piece of the puzzle falls into place.
  
  Another day starts and Carole wakes up wondering where David is and why the house has all these new gizmos. A holographic projection of David from the kitchen TV explains the situation. An alien Flake came into orbit around Earth nine years after they’d first heard the secret and it is causing – for reasons unknown – a progressive memory wipe. Carole is shocked, as the image of a David, whom she recognizes, turns to that of a 51-year-old man, who tells her she is now 44. Dashing to David’s Den, she finds that he is being confronted by a hologram of a much older version of herself recounting the same information.
  
  Their driverless car gets them to work, where a very old John plays them a message from a friend of Carole’s, Hirohito. This Japanese colleague is working to map and record the memories of senior scientists, so their invaluable knowledge will not be lost. John then takes them to the daily update, where recordings of senior scientists across the world – including Carole, to her surprise – relate what is being done to counter the alien threat. She is further surprised to learn that Deltas, the next generation of androids she created, are helping to keep vital infrastructure working in many parts of the world. The Flake destroyed Earth’s atomic missiles from a distance, and nothing can be done to shield people against the effects of the alien entity. So scientists from NATO and universities throughout the world, coordinated by David’s Network AI, are aiming to change the orbit of a large asteroid, Toro, to smash the Flake to atoms.
  
  Day after day, the scientists assisted by the androids Deltas will try to implement the Toro project. But little by little, as the world gradually reverts to a savage state and humanity collapses, the AIs and Deltas take power. Just before her memories take her back to childhood, Carole devises a plan B that involves David and… Charlie.

MIND OUT OF TIME

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