TiMER

"Do you think the TiMER actually works, or is it just a self-fulfilling prophecy?"

The TiMER corporation has perfected a device that allows it's users to identify their soulmate.  The device is implanted in your wrist and, provided that your soulmate also has a device, it counts down to the day you will meet your soulmate.  Oona O'Leary (Caufield) is looking for her soulmate.  She has a TiMER device, but it is blank.  She lives with her stepsister Steph DePaul (Borth), who isn't set to meet her soulmate until she is 43.  Both are frustrated as they watch others, including their teenage brother Jesse (McFarland), meet their soulmate.

Oona meets grocery clerk Mikey (Amedori) who is the drummer in a band and only has a few months until he meets his soulmate.  Despite the TiMER she decides to give the relationship a shot.  Steph works as a receptionist at an elderly care facility, where she meets Dan (Harrington) who is the grandson of one of the residents.  He doesn't have a TiMER device.  With their 30th birthday quickly approaching and pressure from their parents, Marion (Williams) and Paul (Irwin), can they find real love?


What if you knew your soulmate at first sight?  This is the question that writer/director Jac Shaeffer tries to answer with this film.

It is an interesting setup.  They play predestination (the device is always right) versus free will (screw the device).  Oona drags all of her boyfriends to get devices, clinging to the hope that one of them still be her soulmate.  Her sister, Steph, has a countdown but chooses to have meaningless relationships instead of wait patiently for her ridiculously long countdown.  The ending has audiences and critics divided, some feel that it completely ruins everything that happened before and others feel that it was the perfect ending for the story.

It is interesting, but not great.

TiMER (2009) 99 minutes
Director: Jac Shaeffer
Starring: Emma Caufield as Oona O'Leary
Michelle Borth as Steph DePaul
John Patrick Amedori as Mikey Evers
Desmond Harrington as Dan
JoBeth Williams as Marion DePaul
Tom Irwin as Paul DePaul
Hayden McFarland as Jesse DePaul