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The Penitent Man (2010)
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questionable · Unknown
The Penitent Man
The Penitent Man tells the story of psychologist Dr. Jason Pyatt, a man devoted to his work - a man torn from his family. With his struggling marriage and mounting bills, Jason is at a crossroads with the life he has chosen and the life he could have. When one of his clients - the mysterious Mr. Darnell - walks into his office and paints him a repentant tale of future economic and moral collapse, Jason's eyes are forever opened. With the help of his best friend Ovid, he embarks on a personal mission to change the course of his future, and possibly the world, forever.
Science Fiction, Drama
Before you choose
What kind of time-travel story is this?
Time travel is an important premise, with limited sustained exploration.
A borderline case: the temporal interpretation remains disputed. The mechanism is classified as Unknown.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
Confirmed 5/10: a mysterious client tells psychologist Jason he is from the future and describes a coming economic and moral collapse, and Jason sets out with his friend Ovid to change his life. The future warning drives a talky drama rather than shown travel.
Netflix identifies time travel and future visions, but the consulted evidence does not adequately resolve the client’s literal origin or mechanism.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Titan14.6
Weighted archive score
Time-travel significance5/10
high confidence
Quality consensus5.6/10
Aggregate source ratings
How Titan works
Titan combines the archive’s quality, audience and legacy base with the significance of time travel. It is an index, not a score out of 100, and is distinct from the FMV archive’s scoring model.
Titan = base × [0.20 + 0.80 × (time-travel score ÷ 10)²]
This film: 36.52 base × 40.0% weighting.
Partial inputs flag incomplete source metadata. Provisional weighting flags a time-travel assessment that remains uncertain; it receives no additional confidence penalty.
The evidence
Research & sources
Research notes may reveal plot details.
These sources support the plot facts and catalog research. The numerical scores are the archive’s judgments, not ratings supplied by these sources.
Cast: Lance Henriksen, Andrew Keegan, Lathrop Walker, Melissa Roberts, Adrien Gamache
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Digital
The Penitent Man (2010)
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Digital
The Penitent Man (2010)
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