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Laboratory Conditions

  • 2017
  • 17m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
780
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Laboratory Conditions (2017)
DramaHorrorMysterySci-FiShortThriller

A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.A physician investigating a missing body disrupts an unlawful experiment.

  • Director
    • Jocelyn Stamat
  • Writer
    • Terry Rossio
  • Stars
    • Marisa Tomei
    • Minnie Driver
    • Paulo Costanzo
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.2/10
    780
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Jocelyn Stamat
    • Writer
      • Terry Rossio
    • Stars
      • Marisa Tomei
      • Minnie Driver
      • Paulo Costanzo
    • 11User reviews
    • 8Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 34 wins & 6 nominations total

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    Marisa Tomei
    Marisa Tomei
    • Emma Holloway
    Minnie Driver
    Minnie Driver
    • Marjorie Cane
    Paulo Costanzo
    Paulo Costanzo
    • Robbins
    Lisa Renée
    Lisa Renée
    • Alice
    • (as Lisa Renee)
    Robert Scheid
    Robert Scheid
    • Dan
    John F. Kearney
    • George Lockwood
    • (as John Kearney)
    Casey Strand
    Casey Strand
    • Clinical Nurse
    • (as Casey Russell)
    Laura Maccabee
    Laura Maccabee
    • Staff Nurse
    Gayla Goehl
    Gayla Goehl
    • Charge Nurse
    Bob Bancroft
    Bob Bancroft
    • Orderly
    Samba Schutte
    Samba Schutte
    • Lab Technician
    Jenny March
    • Creepy Girl
    • Director
      • Jocelyn Stamat
    • Writer
      • Terry Rossio
    • All cast & crew
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    User reviews11

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    10infieldg

    Fast paced, thought provoking and an ending you won't forget!

    Absolutely superb!

    If like me the preconditioning of being a guy in 2022 makes you consider stopping after the first guy opens his mouth, I'm begging you, please don't!

    This is NOT that kind of film. The characters are all believable, encompassing good/bad, with/without faith, strong/weak with those attributes assigned without an agenda, some skillfully revealed over time.

    It's without question one of the best videos - short, long and all points between - I have ever watched, bar none.

    I've seen a lot of comments on YT wishing it was a full length feature and I can see their point, I'd certainly watch a director's cut if it added even one scene.

    Or a sequel - it could easily go in a couple of directions - but honestly, on its own it is wonderfully, thought provokingly complete.

    Full marks!
    Kirpianuscus

    provocative

    A not comfortable idea but a very old curiosity . The duel between familiar actors. A small detail defining the end. And something returning us to old questions, doubts and sources of fascination, faith and old lectures.

    In short, the discover, out of doubts, of soul.

    A stolen patient, a doctor looking for him, an experiment and the images saw only by the doctor. And the cold truth , changing everything, reminding the angry of God against Egyptians in the time of Moses.

    Many reasons to define it as a film with Minnie Driver, Marisa Tomei and Paulo Constanzo. And , maybe, this is the motif of provocative subject, less original but powerful at whole.

    A great short film for the fine manner to craft questions . Maybe, for the basic truth, discovered by each viewer as a precious remind about life. And death.
    4CutUncut2021

    Avocado toast

    To lend this vapid outing a degree of gravitas, the producers decided to add a British scientist Halloway (Driver) and a nerd with oversize spectacles and baggy cardigan (Costanzo), who took a break from flipping burgers. Despite Holloway's lapidary pronouncement that "Nature does not know extinction, only transformation," none of the actors, Tomei included, show much conviction, perhaps they have their mortgages in mind while digesting an avocado toast. This foray is corny beyond belief. Back in 1972 the BBC broadcast a TV thriller "The Stone Tape," in black-and-white, cardboards sets, available online (DailyMotion): watch it, and compare with this dross.
    10charlie-bowen7

    Wow.... Just WOW! More Please

    Terry Rossio is simply a creative genius\mastermind!!! This was an amazing Short! It has some of the top actors\actresses that draw you in and make you want to be there. You will be left want to know more about them, what led them there, and why it has to be discovered.

    I even had to watch it a few times.... still wanting more This is one of those rare shorts that makes your mind continue the story... for a time ever after the credits roll What a fantastic storyline with gripping life questions and the overall debate\connection between faith and science.

    Please make this into a full length movie!!!!!!
    9FilmLover007

    Hunting!!!

    This film is so spooky that it begs the question, "is this real?"

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    • Quotes

      [last lines]

      Emma Holloway: Go ahead, open it. Let's see what happens.

    • Soundtracks
      Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye
      (uncredited)

      Written by Paul Leka, Gary DeCarlo and Dale Frashuer

      Performed by Lisa Renée

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    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 13, 2018 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official "Alter" YouTube Channel
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Лабораторные условия
    • Filming locations
      • ATB Studios, Burbank, California, USA(laboratory)
    • Production company
      • Joe Russell Productions
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    • Runtime
      • 17m
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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