Terminus (2015 film)
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| Directed by | Marc Furmie |
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| Music by | Brian Cachia |
| Cinematography | Kieran Fowler |
| Edited by | Gabriel Dowrick |
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Storm Vision Entertainment
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| Distributed by | Vertical Entertainment |
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94 minutes |
| Country | Australia |
| Language | English |
Terminus is a 2015 Australian science fiction drama film directed by Marc Furmie, who wrote it with Shiyan Zheng and Gabriel Dowrick. It stars Jai Koutrae, Todd Lasance, Bren Foster, and Kendra Appleton. Terminus tells the story of David, a small town American who has a near fatal accident after coming in contact with a meteorite. The mysterious object has an extraterrestrial element with enormous implications for humankind.
The film was made on a small budget in Sydney with a predominantly Australian cast. It has been praised for its character introspection and classic sci-fi feel.
Reports of a downed extraterrestrial object bring the attention of U.S. government agents. Although disappointed that they find no living specimens, the agents take an eyewitness into custody to observe him after they find he is no longer blind. Elsewhere, David Chamberlain, a mechanic who has not recovered from the death of his wife Jane, struggles to keep his job. Zach, a veteran of a war currently ongoing in Iran, asks for a job, though David must turn him down. David later helps Zach in a bar fight, learning that Zach is missing a leg. When David returns home, his daughter Annabelle tells him that his last two payments failed to go through, and she has been forced to return home from college.
Upset, David takes a car ride and crashes after seeing an object streak down from the sky. When David fails to return home to next morning, Annabelle looks for him. She finds him wandering near his crashed car and takes him to the hospital. A doctor informs Annabelle that David inexplicably has a kidney that was removed in a vain attempt to save his wife. Now obsessed with the object, David becomes convinced it is giving him instructions through his dead wife. Meanwhile, the agents supervise surgery on the eyewitness and argue with their supervisor to continue their research. He says the continuing war in Iran is necessary to raise the country's morale and takes precedence over any possible evidence of extraterrestrial contact.
David hires Zach to help him retrieve the object. As they do so, Zach touches it and becomes unnerved by the feedback. While protesting the advancing war amid reports that Russia, China, and France have threatened retaliation against the U.S. push into Iran, Zach experiences pain in his amputated leg. When he realizes that his leg is slowly regrowing, he returns to David to demand an explanation. David tells Annabelle and Zach about the object and insists that Zach must be brought into proximity with it. Zach's leg rapidly regenerates, causing him to join David's quest to create a large structure David believes the object wants built. They steal materials from a local junkyard, putting everything in an abandoned factory.
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