Looper: watch the trailer - video

Rian Johnson's futuristic thriller imagines a world where time travel is possible and hitmen in the past are hired to do away with targets from the future. Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) is one of the best in the business, but how will he act when his target is revealed as his older self (Bruce Willis)? Looper will open the Toronto international film festival on 6 September and is released in the UK on 28 September

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