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| Directed by | Jac Schaeffer |
| Produced by | Jennifer Glynn Rikki Jarrett Jac Schaeffer |
| Written by | Jac Schaeffer |
| Starring | Emma Caulfield Michelle Borth John Patrick Amedori Desmond Harrington JoBeth Williams Kali Rocha |
| Music by | Andrew Kaiser |
| Cinematography | Harris Charalambous |
| Editing by | Peter Samet |
| Studio | Truckbeef |
| Distributed by | Present Pictures Capewatch Pictures |
| Release date(s) | April 26, 2009 (Tribeca) May 14, 2010 (United States) |
| Running time | 99 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
TiMER is a 2009 science-fiction romantic comedy film by Jac Schaeffer about a device that counts down to the moment you meet your soul mate.
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TiMER is a corporation specializing in a unique matchmaking device. For a nominal monthly fee, the company can equip anyone with a countdown timer that counts down to the point that the customer is brought into contact with his or her soul mate. The night before meeting a soul mate, the TiMER reaches zero, and will begin to beep when the soul mates meet the following day. After more than fifteen years of operation, the company has a 98% approval rating.
Oona (Emma Caulfield), an orthodontist, has a blank timer, meaning her soulmate has not been equipped with one. In an attempt to search for her soulmate, Oona brings her latest timerless boyfriend to TiMER in the hope that they will get a matching beep, but, as before, their timers do not match and they separate. Oona begins to express doubt in the effectiveness of the TiMER due to the influence of her roommate and stepsister, Steph, who will not meet her soul mate until she is 43, and because of a grocery clerk, Mikey (John Patrick Amedori), who encourages her to live in the present rather than stress about the future.
Deciding to give up on a predestined fate, the girls head back to TiMER to have their timers removed. Steph has hers removed but, when Oona's is about to be, her timer kicks to life: she will meet her soul mate the next day. She decides to keep the timer a little while longer. However, she cannot bring herself to leave her house that day and simply lets it pass. The next day she turns thirty and has her timer's alarm go off when she meets Dan (Desmond Harrington), a man Steph had been interested in. Her relationship with Mikey falls apart. After Oona has her timer removed, Mikey concludes that she can know for sure about Dan.
The film received a 58% rotten rating at Rotten Tomatoes, based on 12 reviews.