What is Coherence about?
Four couples gather for dinner the night a mysterious and powerful comet passes overhead.
Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)
It leaves the ending open to interpretation.
Friendships fray and reality warps as a comet's passing unleashes unsettling, cerebral suspense.
Suspenseful and tense. A late-night trip at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
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Coherence parents guide
There is no US rating to lean on, so here is what we tagged: some strong language.
- Scare
- Mildly scary
- A few tense or eerie moments.
- Jump scares
- A couple
- One or two sudden jolts.
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- None flagged
- It has no US rating to check against, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.
- Language
- Moderate
- Some strong profanity, a few f-words.
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Three questions
- Is Coherence scary?
- Only a little. Coherence has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
- How gory is Coherence?
- No gore and some violence. Squeamish viewers are fine here.
Cast and crew
Directed byJames Ward Byrkit
StarringEmily Baldoni, Maury Sterling, Nicholas Brendon, Lorene Scafaria, Elizabeth Gracen, Hugo Armstrong
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