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Downtime: Directed by J.D. Dillard. With Morena Baccarin, Colman Domingo, Serinda Swan, Tony Hale. After a woman is promoted to hotel manager, the nature of her reality is called into question.
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- Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- J.D. Dillard
- 2020-06-25
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- Cast
- Trivia
On the day she scores her dream promotion, a hard-working woman starts to realize her entire existence may be one large dreamlike state.
Michelle Weaver is a woman who's worked her entire life to get to where she is in the world. Now as this new chapter begins, it's the world itself that's about to change. She's about to take a break from life as she knows it and book an extended stay here in the Twilight Zone.
Act I
Hotel hospitality employee Michelle Weaver speaks with her boss Reggie regarding promotion to manager. She states her qualifications which bore him, so she tells a joke about a clerk willing to help her boss and an angry old man looking to buy half a head of lettuce. Reggie laughs and gives her the job, saying he's never seen anybody more dedicated. He tells her "you really picked the right life." A handful of hotel employees outside the room congratulate her. Down in the hotel lobby, Michell...
Act II
A panicked Michelle runs down the street and asks an unaffected cop what is happening. He tells her it's "scheduled maintenance" and that they need to "wake up" before staring up into the orb himself. Michelle runs all the way home to find Carl unaffected; however, when she tells him about the orb, he spontaneously breaks into an Irish accent and also rambles about downtime. He asks if Michelle remembers who she was before she was Michelle, but she has no idea what he's talking about. Carl sa...
Act III
The skateboarders cruise the streets looking for Michelle, who briefly hides among the stiff people standing in the streets before returning to the hotel. She grabs the penthouse key and heads up to find the Desmonds in their trance staring out the windows. Michelle knocks Mr. Desmond over then lies down. A pigeon flies up to her window and upon seeing her, lets out the ear-piercing screech from earlier. This leads the skateboarders to the hotel as the orb announces maintenance will end in 5...
How would you feel if you spent your life making your dreams a reality only to find out that reality itself is a dream all along? We can never know what makes something real. But today, Michelle Weaver has found meaning in an otherwise synthetic world. And that's good enough for her here in the Twilight Zone.
Morena Baccarin as Michelle WeaverColman Domingo as Carl WeaverSerinda Swan as Ellen LowellTony Hale as TomIn one scene, Michelle is in her house standing underneath a painting with a green emerald in its center. This is an Easter egg for The Sims, a popular computer game where players create virtual av...Whipple is a sponsor for SleepAway, as seen in the video played for Michelle.The cop Michelle talks to drops a drink cup for the Busy Bee Diner, the main setting from the classic episode "Nick of Time". The diner appears later in the episode "A Small Town"; another version...25 mar 2024 · The Twilight Zone’s "The Encounter" was kept out of circulation for 50 years due to problematic content. Here’s why the classic episode went missing. In terms of pure dramatics, it would probably be more impactful to simply leave Michelle trapped in her dream world and forced to make the best of it.
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