# The movie "Coherence".  Any good explanation?

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**Created:** [June 30, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-coherence-any-good-explanation/691982 "2014-06-30T05:53:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![jharvey963](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@jharvey963](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jharvey963)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-coherence-any-good-explanation/691982/1 "2014-06-30T05:53:00Z")

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NOTE!!! Expect spoilers throughout this thread…

I just saw the movie “Coherence” last night and thought it was a pretty good movie.

It has a pretty complicated storyline, however, and I’d like to see to good complete description of the plot. I’ve checked Wikipedia, [rogerebert.com](http://rogerebert.com), and a few other movie review sites, but they only had overviews of the plot, not a detailed description.

Does anyone know where I can see a complete description of the plot this movie?

Also, what does everyone else think of this movie?

J.

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**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-coherence-any-good-explanation/691982/2 "2014-06-30T18:48:30Z")

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Wow, I see a LOT of movies, including a ton of indies (the last two movies I saw were Heli, a very violent film from Mexico, and a heartbreaking documentary about Aaron Swartz called The Internet’s Own Boy) and I’ve never heard of Coherence! It sounds interesting too. If it opened here I missed it obviously, but if it’s making its way around the country and hasn’t opened here yet, I’ll keep an eye out for it.

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**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-movie-coherence-any-good-explanation/691982/3 "2014-12-22T00:19:00Z")

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> [@Equipoise](#):
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> Wow, I see a LOT of movies, including a ton of indies (the last two movies I saw were Heli, a very violent film from Mexico, and a heartbreaking documentary about Aaron Swartz called The Internet’s Own Boy) and I’ve never heard of Coherence! It sounds interesting too. If it opened here I missed it obviously, but if it’s making its way around the country and hasn’t opened here yet, I’ll keep an eye out for it.

A very cool movie. It’s about a comet that makes it possible for a group to enter alternate universes.

I just saw it and haven’t quite figured it out - such as which Emily is which in the final 15 minutes. The one thing that I’ve read that seems to help is that, with each blackout, a different universe is being viewed (Red, Green and Blue, with several others).

I think I’ll watch it again.

The DVD is expected out in mid January.