99 Problems
A waitress is offered one impossible chance to rewrite the immediate future before fate closes in.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- tense
- mysterious
- surreal
- short film night
- science fiction marathon
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
The waitress is offered an opportunity to change the immediate future, making temporal intervention the central formal premise.
Richard Leacock's Mystery Man gives the waitress the consequential opportunity that drives the narrative.
The sixteen-minute runtime concentrates the waitress's life-or-death predicament into a tense, high-concept encounter.
The plot explicitly hinges on the waitress's ability to change what is about to happen and preserve her life.
Films like 99 Problems, and why
The Twilight Zone: The Movie
shares a compact science fiction premise in which an ordinary person confronts altered causality and an uncertain future
The Adjustment Bureau
shares a reality-bending encounter with mysterious figures and a tense, fate-driven atmosphere
Source Code
shares a high-concept science fiction setup centered on changing events and the consequences of choice
Movie Details
- Director
- Michael G. Kehoe
- Release Date
- 2021-04-01
- Runtime
- 16 min
- Rating
- 0.0 / 10
Cast
- Richard Leacock
- Tori London
- Michelle Renee Allaire
- Willie Dixon
- Sala Baker
- Yan Birch
Common questions
- What is 99 Problems about?
- A waitress is offered one impossible chance to rewrite the immediate future before fate closes in.
- What is 99 Problems like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of 99 Problems as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is 99 Problems violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in 99 Problems as mild.
- Which films are like 99 Problems?
- Films with a similar feel include The Twilight Zone: The Movie, The Adjustment Bureau, and Source Code.
- How long is 99 Problems?
- 99 Problems runs 16 minutes.
