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Primer (2004) More at IMDbPro »

• There was a scene later cut out portraying Aaron as a diabetic. The shot showed him giving himself an insulin injection.
  
  
• Shane Carruth stated that at most an 80 minute could be made from the footage (the film was 78 minutes). He stated that the shooting ratio was 2:1.
  
  
• In the scene in which Abe-2 knocks out Abe-1 with nitrous oxide, the container he's holding is actually a rice cooker. Also, we see sleeping Abe's profile, but not standing Abe, because the latter was Shane Carruth standing in for David Sullivan.
  
  
• The budget for the entire film was around $7000. Most of the money was spent on film stock.
  
  
• The device in the movie is a person-sized, metal box that hums. One scene features Abe and Aaron standing behind some trees, as they watch themselves enter a U-Haul Storage facility. This scene was filmed in Carrollton, TX (a suburb of Dallas, TX), and in 2005 these trees were cleared to build a Hummer dealership.
  
  

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