Looper (DVD)

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 Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels and Bruce Willis. It revolves around present-day contract killers called loopers hired by criminal syndicates from the future to terminate victims whom they send back through time.

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. The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success, grossing $176 million worldwide on a $30 million budget.

Plot

In 2044, 25-year-old Joe works for a Kansas City crime syndicate as an assassin, or looper. Since tracking systems in the future of 2074 have made it nearly impossible to dispose of bodies undetected, the syndicate sends its enemies back in time to be executed. Managed by a man from the future named Abe, loopers kill and dispose of victims whose faces are concealed, recovering silver bars attached to their targets as payment. To hide connections to the syndicate, any loopers who survive until 2074 are sent back and killed by their own younger selves, referred to as closing the loop. These targets are identified by gold bars instead of silver, marking the end of the looper s contract.

Joe s friend Seth confesses to Joe that he failed in an assignment to kill his future self. Old Seth has escaped, after warning Seth that a person in the future called the Rainmaker will overthrow the five major bosses and close all loops. Joe reluctantly hides Seth in his apartment s floor safe, but later reveals his location after Abe threatens to confiscate half of Joe s saved silver. Abe s elite Gat Men capture Seth, cut an address into his arm, and begin severing body parts. These effects appear on Old Seth s body; he goes to the address on his arm and is shot dead by Kid Blue, one of the Gat Men.

When Joe s next target arrives, it is his older self, but with his face uncovered and hands unbound. Old Joe escapes before Joe can kill him. Returning to his apartment and finding it ransacked by the Gat Men, Joe fights with Kid Blue, falls off a fire escape and blacks out.

In another timeline, Joe does kill his older self. He moves to Shanghai and becomes a hitman to finance his drug addiction and wild lifestyle. Eventually, he marries and breaks the addiction with his wife s help. Seven years later, his wife is killed when Joe is taken to close the loop. Overpowering his captors, Old Joe sends himself back to 2044, altering his history by evading Joe and escaping.

Old Joe experiences vague memories of Joe s actions in the present, and meets his younger self at a diner. He wants to alter history again and save his wife by killing the Rainmaker as a child. He acquires a map from a local library using numbers written on his hand that are supposed to pertain to the Rainmaker s identity. Kid Blue and the Gat Men appear, and a gunfight ensues. Both Joes escape, with pieces of the map.

Joe follows the map to a farm where a woman named Sara lives with her young son Cid. Sara recognizes the numbers on the map as Cid s birthday and the location of the hospital where he was born. Joe guesses that Old Joe is going to kill all three children born at that hospital on the same day, not knowing which one will become the Rainmaker.

Jesse, a Gat Man, comes to the farm, but Cid and Joe hide. Later that night, Sara and Joe have sex, and Sara reveals that while she has slightly above-average telekinetic powers, Cid s abilities are far stronger. In the morning, Joe wakes to find Jesse holding Sara at gunpoint. Terrified, Cid kills Jesse using telekinesis. Joe realizes that Cid will become the Rainmaker and that Old Joe will now know this.

Kid Blue captures Old Joe and takes him to Abe. Old Joe breaks free, killing Abe and his henchmen, and goes to Sara s farm, followed by Kid Blue. While Young Joe kills Kid Blue, Old Joe pursues Sara and Cid. When Cid s face is grazed by a bullet, Sara calms him before he can react and kill anyone. She sends Cid into a sugar cane field and positions herself to block Old Joe s line of fire. Joe realizes that Cid will become the Rainmaker if Old Joe kills Sara. He commits suicide, erasing Old Joe s existence, saving Sara and potentially preventing Cid from becoming the Rainmaker.

Cast

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Joe Bruce Willis as Old Joe
• Bruce Willis as Old Joe
• Emily Blunt as Sara
• Paul Dano as Seth Frank Brennan as Old Seth
• Frank Brennan as Old Seth
• Noah Segan as Kid Blue
• Piper Perabo as Suzie
• Jeff Daniels as Abe
• Pierce Gagnon as Cid
• Summer Qing as Joe s Wife
• Tracie Thoms as Beatrix
• Garret Dillahunt as Jesse
• Nick Gomez as Dale

Production

Looper was written and directed by Rian Johnson, originally conceived as a short film starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, shortly after making Brick, Johnson s first feature. After Johnson released The Brothers Bloom in 2008, he re-teamed with producer Ram Bergman, who produced Johnson s previous two films, with the goal of starting production of Looper in 2009. In May 2010, Gordon-Levitt was cast in one of the lead roles, which he would play after completing Premium Rush. Later in the month, Bruce Willis was also cast. In the following October, Emily Blunt joined Gordon-Levitt and Willis. Noah Segan, Jeff Daniels and Piper Perabo were cast in January 2011. Filming began in Louisiana on January 24, 2011.

Makeup artist Kazuhiro Tsuji created the prosthetics that Gordon-Levitt wore in the film so that he would physically resemble Willis. The film s score was composed by Nathan Johnson, Rian Johnson s cousin.

Talking about Looper and time travel in film, Rian Johnson said:

Even though it s a time-travel movie, the pleasure of it doesn t come from the mass of time travel. It s not a film like Primer, for instance, where the big part of the enjoyment is kind of working out all the intricacies of it. For Looper, I very much wanted it to be a more character-based movie that is more about how these characters dealt with the situation time travel has brought about. So the biggest challenge was figuring out how to not spend the whole movie explaining the rules and figure out how to put it out there in a way that made sense on some intuitive level for the audience; then get past it and deal with the real meat of the story.

Other influences cited by Rian Johnson include The Terminator, Witness, Akira, Domu: A Child s Dream, 12 Monkeys, Timecrimes, and Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.

Release

Theatrical

Looper premiered on September 6, 2012, at the opening night of the Toronto International Film Festival. The film was then released theatrically in the United States on September 28, 2012 by FilmDistrict, who obtained the domestic rights from production company Endgame Entertainment at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. In turn, FilmDistrict chose to release the film with Sony Pictures, over their genre label TriStar Pictures.

The Chinese release of the film reintegrates a substantial number of scenes set in Shanghai. The move was requested by Chinese production company DMG Entertainment in order to further appeal to Chinese audiences. Several of these scenes were shortened or cut for the American release.

Johnson released a free audio commentary on SoundCloud (which was heavily requested after making one for The Brothers Bloom) to be downloaded and listened to during the film, with the warning: Needless to say, this is NOT to be listened to on a first viewing, or before you ve seen the film.

Home media

The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in North America on December 31, 2012. The film was also released on January 28, 2013 in online UK stores, with a general release on February 4, 2013. The film made $20,583,583 in domestic DVD sales and $11,468,974 from domestic Blu-ray sales for a total of $32,052,557. The film was remastered for an Ultra HD Blu-ray release in 2021.

Reception

Box office

Looper opened on September 28, 2012, in 2,992 theaters in North America and grossed US$20,801,522 in its opening weekend averaging US$6,952 per theater and ranking #2 at the box office. The widest release of the film in the U.S was 2,993 theaters and it ended up earning US$66.5 million domestically and US$110 million internationally for a total of US$176.5 million, against its US$30 million production budget.

Critical response

On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 93% based on 271 reviews, with an average rating of 8.1/10. The website s critics consensus reads, As thought-provoking as it is thrilling, Looper delivers an uncommonly smart, bravely original blend of futuristic sci-fi and good old-fashioned action. On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 84 out of 100, based on 44 critics, indicating universal acclaim . Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of B+ on an A+ to F scale.

James Mottram of Total Film gave Looper 5 stars out of 5, concluding that it was the best sci-fi movie since Moon. The best time-travel yarn since 12 Monkeys. And one of the best films of 2012.

Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive review, calling it an engaging, neatly worked-out time-travel sci-fi thriller , but also criticizing the effects involved in making Gordon-Levitt resemble Willis: At first, the effect is a bit odd, and you can t quite put your finger on what s off; then it feels downright weird to be looking at a version of Gordon-Levitt who is no longer the actor you ve known for a few years now.

Peter Debruge of Variety also gave the film a positive review, writing that writer-director Johnson s grandly conceived, impressively mounted third feature shows a giddy, geeky interest in science-fiction, then forces it into the back seat and lets the multidimensional characters drive. In a genre infamous for loose ends, this thinking man s thriller marshals action, romance and a dose of very dark comedy toward a stunning payoff.

Kim Newman of Empire magazine gave Looper 5 stars out of 5, writing, Intelligent science-fiction sometimes seems an endangered species—too much physics and there s a risk of creating something cold and remote, too many explosions and get lost in the multiplex. Looper isn t perfect, but it pulls off the full Wizard Of Oz: it has a brain, courage and a heart. Noel Murray of The A.V. Club gave the film an A− grade, writing, Looper is a remarkable feat of imagination and execution, entertaining from start to finish, even as it asks the audience to contemplate how and why humanity keeps making the same rotten mistakes. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times gave the film a positive review, writing, Looper is way inventive but it wears its creativity lightly, like it s no big deal. This is a highflying, super-stylish science-fiction thriller that brings a fresh approach to mind-bending genre material. We re not always sure where this time-travel film is going, but we wouldn t dream of abandoning the ride.

Claudia Puig of USA Today gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, writing, Looper s heady blend of time travel, gritty action and a jot of romance is such a thrilling and cerebral mind-bender that it will likely have moviegoers gathering outside the theater afterward to hash out details of its intricately constructed universe. Not that that s a bad thing. Peter Travers of Rolling Stone also gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, praising the performances of Willis and Gordon-Levitt and concluding, Lacing tremendously exciting action with touching gravity, Looper hits you like a shot in the heart. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times also gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4, praising its screenplay, stating Looper, a smart and tricky sci-fi story, sidesteps the paradoxes of time travel by embracing them. Most time travel movies run into trouble in the final scenes, when impossibilities pile up one upon another. This film leads to a startling conclusion that wipes out the story s paradoxes so neatly it s as if it never happened.

Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B+ grade, writing, The time swivels in Looper evoke some of Inception s fancy temporal tricks (some of which, of course, also involved Gordon-Levitt straddling multiple time zones at once). But it s the glimpses of Children of Men-like societal dystopia that give the movie its real weight . Keith Staskiewicz, also writing for Entertainment Weekly (reviewing the DVD) and also giving a B+ , said, The film s premise is markedly inventive, and Johnson spends a lot of time making his universe seem lived-in and believable, but he s not just concerned with whiz-bang what-ifs. The showdown of selves illuminates just how little Gordon-Levitt s character has changed over the intervening years, stuck as he is in a feedback loop of drug use and violence despite his pipe dream of moving to Europe. The retro trench coats and firearms also suggest a sort of eternal recurrence, and as Looper s plot gets more complex, its central question simplifies: If we can t fix our mistakes, can we at least make sure we don t repeat the same ones over and over again?

Richard Corliss of Time magazine gave the film a positive review, calling Looper a hybrid, mashing Quentin Tarantino and Philip K. Dick into a species of pulp science fiction and also writing, A fanciful film with the patina of hyper-realism, Looper is well served by actors who behave not as if they were dropped carelessly into the future but spent their whole desperate lives there. Dana Stevens of Slate gave the film a mixed review, writing, Looper felt to me like a maddening near-miss: It posits an impossible but fascinating-to-imagine relationship – a face-to-face encounter between one s present and future self, in which each self must account for its betrayal of the other – and then throws away nearly all the dramatic potential that relationship offers.

Accolades

Award	Nominees	Result
National Board of Review Award for Best Original Screenplay	Rian Johnson	Won
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay	Rian Johnson	Won
Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Original Screenplay	Rian Johnson	Nominated
Critics Choice Movie Award for Best Sci-Fi/Horror Movie	Looper	Won
Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Original Screenplay	Rian Johnson	Nominated
Houston Film Critics Society Original Screenplay	Rian Johnson	Nominated
Austin Film Critics Association Original Screenplay	Rian Johnson	Won
Florida Film Critics Circle Original Screenplay	Rian Johnson	Won
Online Film Critics Society Original Screenplay	Rian Johnson	Nominated
Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form	Rian Johnson	Nominated
Young Artist Award for Best Performance in a Feature Film - Supporting Young Actor Ten and Under	Pierce Gagnon	Nominated

Top ten lists

The film was included in the following top ten lists for the best films of 2012:

Publication	Rank
ReelViews	1
MTV	3
The Skinny	4
New York Post	8
Total Film	9
The Huffington Post	10
The Atlantic Wire	N/A
Christianity Today	8

Condition

New

Publisher

Sony

Published Date

2015-09-22

Age Group

Adult

Rating MPA

R

Recording Studio

Sony

Format

DVD

Brand

Sony

Amazon ASIN

B005LAII8A

UPC / EAN

043396413511

Year

2012

ReleaseDate

2012-09-28

RuntimeMins

119

RuntimeStr

1h 59min

Awards

Awards, 18 wins & 47 nominations

Directors

Rian Johnson

Writers

Rian Johnson

Stars

Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt

Produced by

Ram Bergman, Christopher C. Chen, Ningning Fu, Julie Goldstein, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Douglas Hansen, Dan Mintz, Eleanor Nett, David Pomier, Peter Schlessel, Lucas Smith, James D. Stern, Bing Wu, Wen-ge Xiao

Music by

Nathan Johnson

Cinematography by

Steve Yedlin

Film Editing by

Bob Ducsay

Casting By

Craig Fincannon, Lisa Mae Fincannon, Lindsay Graham, Mary Vernieu

Production Design by

Ed Verreaux

Art Direction by

James A. Gelarden, Scott Plauche

Set Decoration by

Kate Sullivan

Costume Design by

Sharen Davis

Makeup Department

Kimberly Amacker, Nikki I Brown, Daina Daigle, Chad Engel, Adam Gaeta, Kazu Hiro, Stacy Kelly, Jamie Kelman, Kent Richard, Aimee Stuit, Yi Tang, Tony Ward, Melizah Anguiano Wheat, Joan Wiggin, Wesley Wofford, Roland Blancaflor, Jack Lazzaro, Dee Leveque, Justin Stafford, Emily Tatum, Andrea Young

Production Management

Joe Fineman, Bruce Wayne Gillies, Cuizhen Mo, Tim Pedegana, David Pomier, Anthony Rossi III, Michael Toji, April YeFang, Xianmin Zhu

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

Bruce Wayne Gillies, Mike Leonard, Maria Mantia, Renee Marsella, Nicholas Mastandrea, Liang Miao, Nathan Parker, Fei Wong, Allison Lok Kam Yuen, Jason Altieri

Art Department

Spencer J. Abadie, Irwin Ainsworth, Michael A. Ainsworth, Paul Albert, Bennett Ba, Genny Bamburg, Robert C. Beck Jr., Abraham Beechy, John Blanchard, Charles Bodenheimer, Doug Brode, Rick Broderman, Alexandra Capps, Michael 'Mike C.' Cartrell, Ralph Chabaud, K. Wing Chin, Pamela B. Christopher, Marisa Creed, Michael D. Fitzgerald, Jack Flynn, Sarah Forrest, Michael Gastaldo, Jillian Gibson, Paul Giglione, Tommy Gilbert, Jon Graubarth, Eric Gray, Wendy Guerrera, Jeremiah Hansen, Michelle C. Harmon, Kim Harris, Melissa Harrison, Kelly Hemenway, Anthony J. Henderson, Frank Hendrick, Michael Hendrick, James J. Hershey, William Hickey, Jeff Hinds, Norman Hu, Bi Hui, Bradford Johnson, Donald M. Jones, Exir Kamalabadi, Tommy Karasoulis, Alexa Kinigopoulos, James Kroning, Heather La Kor, Leo Lauricella, Kristin Lekki, Austin T. LeValley, Lindanne Lewis, Juqiao Li, Simon Li, Rebecca Lindsey, Brian Mccolgan, Wright McFarland, Myron Meek, Ron Mendell, Katherine Miller, Mary Miller, Ricky Molnar, Chad Morris, Jon Neill, Marybeth O'Connor, Michael O'Neill, Telly Lee Ordoyne, Jed Pendergrass, Louie F. Rabion, Virle S. Reid, Annie Ren, Robert M. Rives, Adam Robbins, Shawnee D. Robbins, Dale Robertson, James Sanders, Sian C. Sanzone, Craig Serody, Ember Soberman, Wayne Softley Jr., William Stampley IV, Paul Stanwyck, Brent Stewart, Alexander 'Sasha' Stolin, Chuck Stringer, Qi Su, Mark Sullivan, Charles Tatum, Mike 'Tibbs' Thibodeaux, Tsung-Yuan Tsai, Trinh Vu, Joe Walsh, Hap Weaver, Kevin Whatley, Michael White, Chris M. Wilson, David Wilson, Jason Wilson, Robert Wilson, Russell Wilson, Tom R. Wilson, Michael Wynn, Fengming Xiao, Qinghai Xiao, Zhu Yan, Jiexi Yang, Darry Young, Xuanyu Zhang, Michael P. Cantrell, Sean P Douglas, Andrew H. Lewis, Robert J. Moore Jr., William Nutt, Siobhan O'Brien

Sound Department

Sarah Bourgeois, Rick Canelli, David Lee Fein, John Hays, Hilda Hodges, David Jobe, Thomas Jones, Tim LeBlanc, Bingsong Li, Brad Lokey, Thomas J. O'Connell, Jeremy Peirson, Mark Purcell, John Joseph Thomas, Guiao Wan, Pawel Wdowczak, Mark DeSimone, Xun Huang, Eric Ledet, Jordan O'Neill, Ric Schnupp, Ryan Young

Special Effects by

Brent Baker, Dustin L. Bankston, Edward Bankston, Lawrence Barado III, R. Michael Bisetti, Stephen Bourgeois, Darin Bouyssou, Lloyd Burke, Shing Chan, Sam Dean, Mary Elizalde, Mike Elizalde, Vladimir Esiperno, David Grasso, Hiroshi Katagiri, Steve Kuzela, Yau Ting Lam, Wai Kit Lau, Lyndsay Lund, Brad Manis, Cass McClure, Michael Nami Sr., David K. Nami, Larry Odien, Sally Ray, Shawn Smith, Jason White, David Nash

Visual Effects by

Christa Albrecht, Jordan Alphonso, Jeff Atherton, Nicholas Avallone, Jarrod Avalos, Mauricio Baiocchi, Kundan Basnet, Guy Botham, Chris Bremble, Jason Brown, Erik Bruhwiler, Cody Brunty, Christian Burggraf, T.J. Burke, Jeremy F. Butler, Kris Cabrera, Di Cai, Gyanon Chitrakar, Ahdee Chiu, Ian Clemmer, Jochen Conradt, Niko Conte, Xiaoliang Cui, Rif Dagher, Lei Deng, Sudarshan Dhakal, Victor DiMichina, Dawei Ding, Yanan Ding, Mei Dong, Brent Droog, John 'Duke' Duquesnay, Andrew Edwards, Marijn Eken, Jenn Emberly, Zhenyu Fan, Patrick Flannery, Brian Flora, Adam Folse, Robert Freitag, Andreas Frickinger, Jason Funk, Christoph Gaudl, Guangyao Geng, Xiaokang Geng, Bikash Ghaju, Jim Gibbs, A.J. Gillespie, Jan Glöckner, Karen E. Goulekas, A.B. Govardhan, Ron Gress, Miguel A. Guerrero, Markus Hagemeier, Asif Haque, David Harter, Jasmin Hasel, Tulio Hernandez, Paul Hill, Chris Howard, Nick Hsieh, Pei-Zhi Huang, Annemieke Loomis Hutchins, Timo Hyhs, Atsushi Imamura, Keith Jackson, Hetal Jain, Michael Janov, Hong Long Jia, Yue Jia, Wenjun Jiang, Xi Jin, Zhongwei Jin, Zack Judson, Dipesh K.P., Christian Kahler, Lun Kai, Sandro Kath, Thomas Kaufmann, Jacob Kebodeaux, Amir Khand, Jin Yong Kim, Ivo Klaus, Claudia Knorr, Eric A. Kohler, Meier Korbinian, Bill Kunin, Sebastian Küchmeister, Roland Langschwert, Erik LaPlant, Felix Laser, Sun Lee, Martin Leguizamon, Bo Li, Lujia Li, Pengfei Li, Erik Liles, Junzhi Liu, Lu Liu, Tiangang Liu, Xing Liu, Yulong Liu, Zhiping Liu, Laura Livingstone, Matthew Lloyd, Michael Logan, Josh Lu, Valy Lungoccia, Prabhakar Maharjan, Simranjit Mahil, Aditya Malla, Paul Martinez, Jamison McCord, Ray McIntyre Jr., Allan McKay, David Michaels, Scott Michelson, Michel Mielke, Jennifer Mizener, Young Joon Mok, Brad Moylan, Julia Mrugala, Amitav Nakarmi, Manesh Nepali, Sujeen Nepali, Justin Oliphant, Satoshi Ozeki, Bruno Parenti, Jale Parsons, Manasi Patel, Xiaolong Peng, Sean Pfeiffer, Ben Pickering, Feng Qiao, Yao Qin, Chris Radcliffe, Sushil Rai, Shinichi Rembutsu, Jibo Ren, David Ridlen, Alexander Robin, Timo Rolle, Benjamin Ross, Jesse Russell, Heini Sa, Krystal Sae Eua, Ray Scalice, Michael Scheffler, Paul Schlie, Alex Schworer, Joel Sevilla, Anup Ratna Shakya, Umesh Shakya, Feng Shi, Rameshwor Shrestha, Subin Shrestha, Umesh Shrestha, Dane Allan Smith, Liuyang Song, DeAndra Stone, Chris Stoski, Colin Strause, Greg Strause, Hao Sun, Xiaodan Sun, Xiaoxuan Sun, Yicun Sun, Josh Sutherland, Olcun Tan, Bingbing Tang, Tsering Tashi, Richard Thompson III, Lu Tian, Alexander Tirasongkran, Shigeharu Tomotoshi, Patrick Trahan, Matthew Trivan, Ryan Tudhope, Anish Ratna Tuladhar, Patton Tunstall, Sewak Wagle, Will Wallace, Bin Wan, Fen Wang, Huan Wang, Lei Wang, Lijian Wang, Teng Wang, Xiaoming Wang, Xingan Wang, Yali Wang, Mortimer Warlimont, José Manuel Weil, Chris Wells, Colie Wertz, Andreas Wieland, Derek Winslow, Feltus Wirtz, Scott Wirtz, Bjoern Wortmann, Mark Edward Wright, Yanjun Wu, Lei Xu, Yuji Yagasaki, Yoshiya Yamada, Ruishi Yang, Yong Yin, Ismat Zaidi, Michael Zavala, Chunguang Zhang, Dongxu Zhang, Fan Zhang, Jia Zhang, Jingrui Zhang, Jixing Zhang, Yuhan Zhang, Yaqun Zhao, Tao Zhou, Ye Zhou, Kai Zhu, Yunpeng Zhu, Bijay Awale, Rajesh Babu, Travis Baumann, Chase Bickel, Daniel Briney, Zack Broussard, Patrick Clancey, James G. Clark, Peter Cooper, Ravi Deula, Andrey Drogobetski, Josh Elmore, Landis R. Fields IV, Brian Freisinger, Sebastian Hirsch, Finlay Hogg, Drew Huntley, Mahesh Kannan, Leon Kogan, Woei Lee, Sharlene Lin, Scott Lissard, Shiyang Liu, Thomas Mathai, Anita Naufal, Joseph Vincent Pike, Darren Porter, Wei Qin, Sharina Radia, Gareth Repton, Sankarasubramanian, Chris Scott, Prasanna Siddharthan, Courteney Smith, Tammy Sutton, Mike Terpstra, Saurabh Tripathi, Hansu Zhan

Stunts

Andy Abele, Tom Akos, Jay Amor, Stanton Barrett, Hunter Baxley, Tim Bell, John Bernecker, Sean Paul Braud, Emily Brobst, Jeff Brockton, Chris Bryant, Andy Cheng, Trace Cheramie, Christian J. Fletcher, Lex D. Geddings, Adam Gomez, Shaun Grant, Regis Harrington, Thirl Haston, Dion Lam, Amy Le, Amy Lee, Rose Leiker, Pok Yan Leung, Junwei Liu, Eddie Matthews, Mike Mayhall, Sam Medina, Brian Nguyen, Brian Oerly, Chuck Picerni Jr., Tom Proctor, Alec Rayme, Steven Ritzi, Ross Morgan Ruben, Eric R Salas, Elena Sanchez, Bruce Sanders Jr., William Scharpf, Tom Sicola, Han Soto, Greg Sproles, Matthew R. Staley, Eric VanArsdale, Tony Vo, Joe Nin Williams, Mike Wilson, Stuart F. Wilson, John Zimmerman, Felder Charbonnet, Jeff Galpin, Matthew S. Kennedy, Jorge Longoria, Michael Ortiz, Elena Sanchez, Suzanne Severio, Matt Thompson, Daniel Vincent, Kevin Waterman, Ned Yousef

Camera and Electrical Department

Gerald Autin, Robert Baird, Mike Bicknell, Danny Brazen, Gary Cadow, Kevin Carlisle, Kai Chen, Jeffrey N. Civa, John T. Connor, Thomas E. Conrad, Duane Cooper, Brandon M. Cox, Joe Datri, Nezben Deason, Larry Dorsey Jr., Shuwen Du, Andre Green, Brad 'Mo' Gremillion, Shane E. Gros, Hua Guo, Bob Hall, Tim Hawn, Penelope Helmer, Louis Jong, Austin Kent, Eric Lu, Alan Markfield, Bradley Martin, Jerome Miller Jr., Jonathan Morrill, Robert Morrison, Dale Myrand, Charlie Nauman, Roger Peterson, Jaron Presant, Jason Prowell, Daniel Rector, Andy Ryan, Bily Salazar, Dan Schroer, Wayne Sharp, Bartholomew Singer, Keegan Stokley, Daniel Tkaczyk, Michael Trejo, Art Villasenor, Yuan Wang, Amanda Warning, Scott Wells, Barry Williamson, Marvin Wright, Sam Yun Hui Zhang, Yingqiu Zhang, Grayson Austin, Roy Farthing III, Guy Fernandez, Carter Lee Garrett, Brad Garris, Keith Gruchala, Chris Heinrich, Richard Landry, Kevin Soto, Toni Weick, Arthur Zajac

Casting Department

Ashley Carmichael, Tara Feldstein, Craig Fincannon, Lisa Mae Fincannon, Brandon Hemmerling, Wendy Talazac, Greg Uddo

Costume and Wardrobe Department

Yvonne Bastidos, Alice Landry Boyer, Megan Broderman, Pam Buchanan, Leoisick Castro, Na Che, Anne Cicero, Carmen Rodrigues Davis, Gina DeDomenico, Dana Embree, Linda Gardar, Xiao Guo, Dana Kay Hart, Damian Hattori, Christy Hebert, Marylou Lim, Fran Murphy, Nan Nan, Alison Parker, Joseph A. Porro, Megan Richardson, Lei Sun, Wendy Talley, Yuanyuan Wang, Da Wei, Lesley D. Wickham, Dusty Wilson, Huifang Xu, Fenghao Zhang, Xianhui Zhang, Yan Zhang

Editorial Department

Tricia Chiarenza, Michael Dillon, Derek Drouin, Andrew Francis, C.J. Julian, Joseph Kirkland, Martha Pike, Tim Sellon, Kelley Whitis, Pete Conlin, Juan Flores, Heather Goodwillie, Jonathan Hoffman, Nathaniel Lee Voelker

Location Management

Erin Burns, Gang Cao, Justin Etienne, Dana A. Hanby, Stephen LeBlanc, Jingdong Mao, Michael C. McCullough II, John A. Mmahat Jr., Aquiles Montalvo, Jimi Woods, Derrick Bentley Wells

Music Department

Minna Choi, Judson Crane, Drew DeAscentis, Eric Gorfain, Alberto Hernandez, John Houlihan, Nathan Johnson, Stuart Johnson, Ryan Lott, Son Lux, The Magik*Magik Orchestra, Chris Mears, Adam Munoz, Yossi Shakked, Jake Sinclair, Eric Dawson Tate, Jorge Velasco, Frank Wolf, Philip Moross, Nick Murray

Script and Continuity Department

Sam Sullivan

Transportation Department

Mac Alsfeld, Cesar Angobaldo, Gerald Ball, William Ballard, Kirk Baptiste, Phil Blackaby, Stephen Brooks, David Bullard, Donald Burdett, Gerard Callahan Jr., Sal Carrubba, Jerrin Comeaux, Joe Comeaux, Steven Docherty, Ashley Dovichi, Doug Dovichi, Vinny Dovichi, Jerzy H. Drean, Randy Duplechine, Pauline Sissie Franklin, Ron Guichard, Uldean 'Deanie' Hawkins, James R. Hayes, Gregory 'Stepper' Jones, Carlie M. Kahn, Barry Kerns, Loney Landry, Clint Langford, Marvin Lewis, Zheng Luo, Chris Moser, Deborah Muscarello, Riley Ordoyne, Poland Perkins, Keith A. Porter, Michael Ralph Price, Gwendalane Ramos, Al Sens, Rodney Smith, Miguel Swift, Jack J. Terranova, Alan Thompson, Yan Wang, Dennis Williams, Doug Wilson, Hongbing Xu, Morris Aroesti, Brian Callahan, Messina Dovichi, Pauline Sissie Franklin

Additional Crew

Paul Abraham, Leonard Alsfeld, Alix Bannon, Glen Basner, Anthony Beaudoin, Melinda Begian, Kelli Bingham, Karen Bove, Christopher Buller, Lia Buman, Staci Caccioppi, Michael Carey, Scarlet Chen, Kyle Ching, Alex Cho, Alan Chu, Alison Cohen, Nick DiRosa, Drury Dupre, Oscar Edstrom, Chris Fenton, Kyle Fitzgerald, Stacy Fortenberry, Ashley Foster, Jennifer Fradlin, Melvin Goo, Kristy Maurer Grisham, Lee Guidry, Andrew Hainey, Ken Halloway, Jim Hanna, Joe Hanna, Scott Herrick, Hunter Holder, Sam Horton, Charles Hwong, Kirk W. Johnson, Marke Johnson, Nikos Karamigios, Susan Kaufman, Lillian Kho, Jason Kirby, John Lavis, Sue-Dee Lazzerini, Christopher Leach, Brooke Lehman, Mike Leonard, Kai Lim, Brian Locicero, Barbara Long, Cullin Lord, Paula P. Manzanedo, Renee Marsella, Shawn McRae, Ling Miao, Yunlei Mo, Bart Moreau, Nan Nan, Chris Nausley, Billy Neo, Yuanyuan Ni, Robert E. Norton, Ali Nosrati, Mary Anne Olinsky, Daniel Postaer, Dru Radovich, Michael Randolph, Jacqueline Roberts, Marissa Roman, Craig Santy, Greg Schenz, Diane Slattery, John Smart, Matthew Carson Taylor, James Teh, Sonia V. Torres, Rocky Wang, Jonathan M. Warren, Da Wei, Guanghan Wei, Rachel Weng, Cindy Wilkinson Kirven, Long Wu, Steve Yandrich, Jun Yang, Ben Zhang, Melanie A. Bonhomme, Christina Bright, Cameron M. Brown, James T. Bruce IV, Morey Butler, Lisa M. Calhoun, Dama Claire, David Danberg, Joey Rocketshoes Dillon, John 'Duke' Duquesnay, Jesse Michael Flaherty, Mike Franklin, Jason Frannino, Jeff Galpin, David Scott Gaudin, Elizabeth Himelstein, Jim Jaffe, Justin Lacalamita, Steve Martin, Paul Mastroianni, Tamara Nagahiro, Benjamin R. Reder, Adam Ryan, Jollaine Schear, Caroline Seale, Tyler Soerries, Amanda Sutton, Zachery Vaughn, John Wilson, R. Bryan Wright, Courtney Shay Young

Thanks

Adrian Alpervoich, Sheida Andalibi, Kimberly S. Barrios, Charles M. Barsamian, Tal Bergman, Bryan Bordon, Shane Carruth, Erin Chancellor, Dan Chariton, Stacy Chariton, Stephen Clark, D'Arcy Conrique, Cara D'Antoni, Adam Del Deo, Brian Dreyfuss, Stephen J. Eads, Philip Elway, Glenn D. Feig, Tara Finegan, Tom Garry, Jay Gatz, Jared Geller, Vince Gilligan, Jonathan Goldman, Dennis Gordon-Levitt, Jane Gordon-Levitt, Micah Green, Jim Jaffe, Wendy Japhet, Cameron Jewell, Zachary Johnson, Alissa M. Kantrow, Kid Koala, David Lang, Gina Lang, Stephanie Langhoff, Beth Lemberge, Josie Liang, Chris Libby, Paula P. Manzanedo, Lucky McKee, Lorrie McNaught, Jared P. Morell, Tekla Morgan, Philip Moross, Alan Peng, Benjamin R. Reder, Emily Rice, Danny Rosett, Isaac Ruvalcaba, Sarah Shay, Marion Spiegelman, Aidan Stanford, Chris Stelly, Tim Talbott, Ronen Verbit, Matt Warren, Bob Witter, Kurt Woolner, Warren Zavala, Stefan Zorich

Genres

Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

Companies

TriStar Pictures, FilmDistrict, Endgame Entertainment

Countries

USA

Languages

English, French

ContentRating

R

ImDbRating

7.4

ImDb Rating Votes

573083

Metacritic Rating

84

Short Description

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 Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Jeff Daniels and Bruce Willis. It revolves around present-day contract killers called loopers hired by criminal syndicates from the future to terminate victims whom they send back through time.

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. The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success, grossing $176 million worldwide on a $30 million budget.

Box Office Budget

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Box Office Opening Weekend USA

$20,801,552

Box Office Gross USA

$66,486,205

Box Office Cumulative Worldwide Gross

$176,506,819

Keywords

Time travel,future,time loop,shanghai,man from the future