Einstein's God Model (2016) on Netflix
NR20161h 29mDramaSci-FiThriller
Anesthetist Brayden Taylor loses Abbey Lucey. With physicist Louis Mastenbrook and blind medium Craig Leeham, he uses Thomas Edison's last experiment to reach her on another membrane.
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Plot summary
Thomas Edison told Scientific American in 1920 that he was at work on a device for speaking with the dead. In 2002, a graduate student named Craig Leeham signs up for a covert study run by the physicists Louis Mastenbrook and Carl Meiselhoff, and hears his dead sister's voice through an old rotary phone before the session ends violently. Ten years later, anesthetist Brayden Taylor is grieving Abbey Lucey, who was struck by a car. He goes looking for Meiselhoff's equipment, hoping to reach her. Louis Mastenbrook finds him instead and describes the God Model Project, a century-old coalition of physicists, and its claim that consciousness rides gravitational waves to parallel membranes. Louis offers Brayden a way to contact Abbey, and asks him to bring in Craig Leeham, now blind and able to perceive the dead.
Cast
- Aaron Grahamas Brayden Taylor
- Kirby O'Connellas Abbey Lucey
- Darryl Warrenas Carl Meiselhoff - PhD
- Tiffany Scottas Donna
- Andy Hannonas Devin
- Mallory Bordonaroas Jenny Leeham
- Darren Stephensas Pastor Dave
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Einstein's God Model (2016)
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- Most of the visual effects in Einstein's God Model were shot analog rather than digital: the quantum realm and membrane effects used water tank footage and green screen compositing, and the film's endlessly drifting surreal snow was crushed egg shells in baby oil.
- The film's use of Thomas Edison's device for contacting the departed came from Mary Roach's book Spook, where director Philip T. Johnson read about Edison's interview with Scientific American claiming he was working on such a machine.
- Director Philip T. Johnson filled the film with vintage props, including a steamer trunk bought on Craigslist and an old telephone he had salvaged years earlier from garbage outside an Irish pub.
