
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- 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 reviewers79/100 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...
RecommendedCoherence 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 reviewersSuperficially, 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...
RecommendedIf 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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Details
- TMDB audience
- 7.2/10 (3,515)
- Age rating
- NR
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $50,000
- Box office
- $139,745
- Franchise
- Coherence Collection
- IMDb
- tt2866360
- Official site
- independent-ent.com

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