Coherence
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Coherence

Rearrange your brain.

2014 • 89 min • Thriller · Science Fiction

Synopsis

Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.

Our family guide

Best from age 16
90
Movie Knight Score
3520 reviews
  • 100 Reviewers · 5 · 65%
  • 72 Audience · 3515 · 35%

Eight friends at a dinner party experience strange phenomena as a comet passes overhead, leading to growing paranoia and unsettling discoveries about their reality. What begins as an evening of reconnection quickly spirals into a mind-bending psychological thriller where trust erodes and identities become fluid.

Violence & peril
3/10
Language
4/10
Drinking, drugs & smoking
4/10
Romance & sensuality
1/10
Scary moments
6/10

Heads up

  • Disorienting and confusing plot
  • Characters become aggressive and fearful
  • Mild alcohol consumption throughout
  • Some brief, intense frightening moments

What it models well

  • Problem-solving under pressure
  • Exploring identity
  • Navigating complex social dynamics

Talk about it after

  • The nature of reality and perception
  • Trust and paranoia within friendships
  • Consequences of choices in alternate realities
  • How characters react to extraordinary stress

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Top billed cast

Director: James Ward Byrkit • Crew: James Ward Byrkit, James Ward Byrkit, Alex Manugian

Trailers & clips

Coherence

COHERENCE - Official Theatrical Trailer (HD)-Oscilloscope Laboratories

COHERENCE - Official Teaser #2 (HD)

Official Teaser

Reviewer notes

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

79/100 4 couples having a dinner party, during the close encounter flyby of a comet, become victims to a series of bizarre events. 'Bizarre' is the keyword here as this total mind f**k had my wife and me completely confused and totally entertained throughout. Filmed in an intimate manner, with hand held cameras, we become participants to the dinner party fully engaging us into their confusion and distress. Incr...

Recommended

Coherence is a fascinating sci-fi thriller that really messes with your head, in the best way. The story is smart, simple, and incredibly engaging. Watching the group slowly unravel as they realize they’re caught in a web of parallel realities was both tense and exciting. The twists kept me guessing, and the way everything ties together at the end made it feel like a puzzle worth solving. That said, the cinemat...

RecommendedTrusted family reviewers

Superficially, the story is simple: a dinner-party among 4 couples of friends, that just happens to be on a night that a comet is blazing closer to Earth. Someone mentions a curious set of events during an earlier comet passage, about a century before, and how that affected a local population. Early on you can spot some slight "incoherences" coming from how characters exchange dialogues, and from the middle on,...

Recommended

**Overall : The greatest movie you've never heard of.** Coherence kept popping up on lists of best sci-fi films which was surprising because I had never seen a trailer or heard anything about it. I found it free to stream somewhere, so I checked it out, and I am so glad I did! What I found was a very low-budget film with a cast you have never heard of but a premise and script that were so well executed that thi...

Recommended

If you have an affinity for mind-bending riffs on quantum physics, you'll enjoy "Coherence." Most of these types of stories take the concepts of quantum mechanics (entanglement, superposition, etc.) which exist at the most microscopic--level (electrons, particles) and posit that similar effects could happen at the macro-level (real-world people and physical objects). "Coherence" takes a nightmare dinner party s...

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