Ironically, one of the things many of us tend to overlook every year at the Toronto International Film Festival is the line-up of interesting Canadian films. I guess I only have my own biases to blame, but this year there are quite a few intriguing flicks from The Great White North including Bruce McDonald’s Trigger, Daniel Cockburn’s You Are Here, and Mike Goldbach’s Daydream Nation, not to mention FUBAR II and this film by Carl Bessai. Repeaters is basically being billed as the concept behind the Bill Murray comedy classic Groundhog Dog re-imagined as an “aggressive, fast-paced thriller.”

The basic idea is that a group of people in rehab get a one day pass to go back into the world to make amends, only to find that they wake up the next day and relive it all over again. And again. Slowly their behaviour becomes more bold and destructive and they realize there are no consequences to their actions. The movie stars Dustin Milligan (90210), Amanda Crew (Charlie St. Cloud) and Richard de Klerk (Cole), and although the premise is cool, I’m not quite sure it will live up to recent time loop movies like Timecrimes or Triangle. A theatrical release for Repeaters is still TBA; check out the trailer after the jump.

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