included · Causal Loop
Desert Road
A young woman crashes her car and walks down the road seeking help, only to find no matter which way she walks she ends up back at her car. As night falls, she realizes she’s going to die in this endless loop... unless she can find a way to escape.
Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
Before you choose
What kind of time-travel story is this?
Temporal events and their consequences run throughout the story.
Meets the archive’s time-travel criteria. The mechanism is classified as Causal Loop.
Why the archive makes this assessment (spoilers)
The protagonist repeatedly returns to her car while the gas station changes and recurring characters mark different temporal locations; decoding this movement sustains her solitary escape plot.
After a desert crash the protagonist repeatedly returns to her car; the festival describes a time-loop story.
Check the supporting sources ↓An editorial assessment based on the archive’s documented plot research.
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The scores
Weighted archive score
high confidence
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: 25.23 base × 84.8% 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: Kristine Froseth, Frances Fisher, Beau Bridges, Ryan Hurst, D. B. Woodside
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