...cost $7,000 to make. It was written, directed, and produced by a guy named Shane Carruth, who also starred in the film. The other actors were his friends and relatives. He managed to get the film entered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2004, and it won the Grand Jury Prize.
The film is called "Primer," and it's not easy-viewing. You've got to really, really pay attention for it to make sense. But it does, making it possibly the first time travel movie ever made that does. It developed such a cult following that director Rian Johnson cited it as one of his primary inspirations for "Looper," and actually hired Shane Carruth to act as a consultant to help him get the time travel thang right. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primer_%28film%29
