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Release year: 2017

Storyline

An inventive crime thriller told backwards reversing day by day through a week following a local sheriff's quest to unlock the mystery of three small-town criminals and a bank heist gone wrong.

Top credits

Directors

Oren Uziel

Writers

Oren Uziel

Cast

Benjamin Walker — Zeke Sikes
Rainn Wilson — Andy Sikes
Stephanie Sigman — Steph Burton
John Michael Higgins — Judge Brad Dawkins

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Did you know

• Each day proceeds with the same structure: one of the characters wakes up in the morning gasping for air, then his/her day is shown, and at the end of the day the character dies.

• When Zeke, the Sheriff, settles into his shift guarding the bank, he's holding an unidentified Stephen King paperback book. After the robbery, Steph drives the robbers' getaway car into a previously-prepared hole and buries it. A 1993 collection of stories by Stephen King, Nightmares & Dreamscapes, begins with the story "Dolan's Cadillac," in which a man seeking revenge on a gangster who killed his wife digs a hole in a highway the precise dimensions of the gangster's Cadillac, lures him to drive his Cadillac into the hole, then buries him alive.

• The original screenplay was on the 2009 Black List, a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts in Hollywood.