Brilliant physics student Cassandra Sinclair finds herself running from the evil Initiative Organization—which includes her childhood friend Josh and a posh lady with an English accent—who are after the equations in her thesis notes that somehow (she’s not quite sure how) launched her on multiple slips back in time (we counted eight) that may or may not result in destroying yourself by getting too close to yourself, a closed timelike curve, quantum entanglement, and/or solving the Grandfather Paradox (without ever having anything that resembles the Grandfather Paradox, quantum entanglement, or a closed timelike curve). We suspect that writer/director Kenneth Mader had been reading “Experimental Simulation of Closed Timelike Curves,” but the actual science didn’t fully translate from the lab to the silver screen.

Handy Hint: The movie is eminently more watchable in a late-night group where everyone shouts “Great Scott!” whenever a character spews a sequence of pseudoscientific quantum mumbo jumbo that vaguely resembles an English sentence.
—Michael Main
We’ve been running simulations to resolve the Grandfather Paradox, and we experienced an unusual electromagnetic pulse at the school that was triggered remotely. We were able to locate the source, but I suspect someone may have taken our simulations a step further. . . . The equation in your daughter’s thesis notes may have actually solved the paradox. But they’re untested and now they’re missing, and you said Charles has been absent. Could he have taken them and induced an entanglement?!

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  1. Displacement, written and directed by Kenneth Mader (Boston SciFi Film Festival, 7 February 2016).
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    Chelsey Crisp (other contribution)
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  1. Credits—from the film:
    • written and directed by Kenneth Mader
    • story consulting and early development | Chelsey Crisp
  2. Release—According to the film’s blog, the first screening was on 7 February 2016 at the Boston Sci-Fi Film Festival, where it won the Chrononaut Award for best time travel film.

    The IMDb lists a TV premiere on 17 September 2016, and based on the IMDb’s company credits, it may have been on the A&E. If so, this was probably not in the USA because it’s not listed on that date’s TV schedule.