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OtherLife

OtherLife

A whole year in a minute

20176.41h 36m

Overview

Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

Directed by Ben C. Lucas
Written by Tommaso Fiacchino, Gregory Widen, Kelley Eskridge
Produced by Marco Mehlitz, Jamie Hilton, Tommaso Fiacchino
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Top Cast

Jessica De Gouw

Jessica De Gouw

Ren Amari

T.J. Power

T.J. Power

Sam

Thomas Cocquerel

Thomas Cocquerel

Danny

Tiriel Mora

Tiriel Mora

Dr. Robert Amari

Liam Graham

Liam Graham

Jared Amari

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Adriane Daff

Cass

Clarence John Ryan

Clarence John Ryan

Byron Finbar

Hoa Xuande

Hoa Xuande

Coder #1

Shalom Brune-Franklin

Shalom Brune-Franklin

Coder #2

R

Rebecca Caldwell

Start up programmer

Themes & Keywords

virtual realitymedicinetimeoverpopulationdrugs

About OtherLife

OtherLife is a science fiction, crime, mystery film released in 2017 exploring themes of virtual reality, medicine, time, overpopulation, drugs. Directed by Ben C. Lucas, it stars Jessica De Gouw, T.J. Power, Thomas Cocquerel. Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLife expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

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