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Looper (2012)

★ 7.4R119 minDirector: Rian Johnson

2012 film by Rian Johnson

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 Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Emily Blunt. It revolves around "present-day" contract killers called "loopers" whose targets are sent back through time by criminal syndicates from the future.

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, by a partnership between TriStar Pictures and FilmDistrict. The film received critical acclaim and was a box office success, grossing $176 million worldwide on a $30 million budget.

Plot summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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What is Looper about?
Looper (2012) — Joe is classified as a "looper", a job in which his employers use time travel to send men from the future to be killed into the past, where Joe can properly dispose of their bodies. However, to tie up loose ends and erase the evidence of his ever being a looper, Joe knows that on
Is Looper based on a true story?
See the production background and source material details on the official Wikipedia article.
Is Looper scary?
Content rating: R. See the reviews tab for parental guidance and tone notes.
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