Can't Go Home Again
A traumatized temporal agent risks violating the laws of time to prevent the tragedy that shaped her life.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- tense
- melancholic
- paranoid
- short film marathon
- science fiction night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Agent Elliott Young defies Temporal Enforcement training to return to her own past and prevent a tragedy.
Elliott is a Temporal Enforcement Agent whose forbidden mission violates the rules of her organization.
The plot links Elliott's temporal mission directly to demons and trauma from her past.
Elliott must choose whether to abandon her training in order to put right what once went wrong.
Films like Can't Go Home Again, and why
The Butterfly Effect
shared time travel premise, personal trauma, and morally urgent attempt to alter the past
Looper
shared temporal intervention, institutional control, and tense science fiction thriller atmosphere
12 Monkeys
shared tragic attempt to revise personal history through time travel and emotionally intense consequences
Movie Details
- Director
- Anthony J. Cook
- Release Date
- 2021-01-01
- Runtime
- 11 min
- Rating
- 0.0 / 10
Cast
- Victoria Smith
- Ian Mairs
- Sophia Waterton
- Hannah West
- Owen Llewelyn
- Lewis Vaughan-Jones
Common questions
- What is Can't Go Home Again about?
- A traumatized temporal agent risks violating the laws of time to prevent the tragedy that shaped her life.
- What is Can't Go Home Again like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Can't Go Home Again as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is Can't Go Home Again violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Can't Go Home Again as mild.
- Which films are like Can't Go Home Again?
- Films with a similar feel include The Butterfly Effect, Looper, and 12 Monkeys.
- How long is Can't Go Home Again?
- Can't Go Home Again runs 11 minutes.
