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Minutemen (2008)

★ 5.8 · 252 ratings on TMDB

It's a short trip from zero... to hero.

Minutemen poster★ 5.8

When three high-school friends invent a time-machine, they decide to use it to go back in time and prevent other youngsters from making humiliating mistakes.

DirectorLev L. Spiro
CastChelsea Kane, Dexter Darden, J.P. Manoux, Jason Dolley, Kara Crane, Kellie Cockrell
GenresComedy, Family, Science Fiction, TV Movie
The emergence reading

Minutemen keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E0 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

zero-distanceUS
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E0timetime can be traversed backward via a machine, allowing causality loops (technology · personal)
Also inFilms that alter a rule of reality
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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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