“Groundhog Day,” but make it about an inescapable terminal illness. In writer/director Bernardo Britto’s “Omni Loop,” Mary-Louise Parker plays a quantum physicist who learns she has only a week to live. Except she learns that many times over, and as she says in the trailer, “This has happened before. Many times.” IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for “Omni Loop,” which premiered at SXSW and will hit theaters from Magnolia this fall, below.
Here’s the official synopsis: “A quantum physicist (Mary-Louise Parker) finds herself stuck in a time loop, with a black hole growing in her chest and only a week to live. When she meets a gifted student (Ayo Edibiri), they team up to save her life — and to unlock the mysteries of time travel.”
The cast also includes Hannah Pearl Utt, Chris Witaske, Carlos Jacott, Harris Yulin, Steven Maier, and Eddie Cahill.
At SXSW, Mary-Louise Parker was praised for carrying the heavier emotions of the movie as a woman faced with the totality of death. “Omni Loop” isn’t far from some of the “Weeds” star’s best stage work in that sense, from playing a mathematician struggling with mental illness in “Proof” or a terminally sick Ivy League professor who decides to take her own life in “The Sound Inside.” Except, of course, “Omni Loop” is also a sci-fi comedy, which means we have “The Bear” and “Bottoms” star Ayo Edebiri to help bring a comic lightness to the proceedings.
From IndieWire’s review out of SXSW: “Writer-director Bernardo Britto’s latest is one of those lo-fi sci-fi movies that weaves the impossible into the mundane texture of everyday life — which tracks with his previous work, which includes a tenure as a staff writer on ‘Los Espookys‘ and the 2016 mockumentary ‘Jacqueline Argentine.’”
Magnolia Pictures will release “Omni Loop” in theaters and on digital September 20, 2024. Watch the exclusive trailer below.
