Omni Loop is an oddball indie sci-fi movie from writer and director Bernardo Britto. Mary-Louise Parker stars as a woman who keeps repeating the same 5 days in an effort to save her own life.

Omni Loop has decent reviews, but I found it slow and bland. Here’s the basic plot.

At age 12, Zoya Lowe (Mary-Louise Parker as an adult) found a bottle of pills with her name on it. When she took one, it sent her back 5 days to relive the same days over again. She used it to seem smarter than she was in school and graduate from an Ivy League college with a degree in physics.

Then she gave up physics to marry Donald (Carlos Jacott) and have a family. Now she’s about to turn 55 and is diagnosed with having a black hole growing in her chest. She has days to live. She starts using the pills to avoid dying. The pills never run out – they regenerate when she takes one. She passively relives the same exact 5 days over and over until she’s bored out of her mind.

Then her day changes. She runs into Paula (Ayo Edebiri) who is carrying a science book Zoya wrote. Paula shows her a whole library where it came from which is filled with all Zoya’s mother’s books and papers.

Paula has a lab. Well, she says she does. She sort of does. Zoya decides to seize the day and begins actively resuming her research from college about time loops and how the pills work. Paula works with her.

Paula gets the nanoscopic man to help them. The nanoscopic man is too small to see and continues to get smaller. He analyzes the contents of Zoya’s pills for them.

When Zoya starts changing up her days, she begins to realize how much she loves her husband and her daughter (Hannah Pearl Utt). Her love and acceptance of what she has seemed to me to be the point of the movie. The time loop pills and black holes and nanoman was a way to make this point about love and what makes life worth living.

If you haven’t heard of this one before, the trailer tells you a lot. It’s a different kind of sci-fi. If it looks interesting, you can stream it on Hulu.