It's interesting that we've gone from knowing nothing besides the fact that Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt are playing the same character and that JGL has to kill his future time-traveling self to knowing that the mob sends someone 30 years into the past to be whacked by carefully placed assassins.
"There’s a stipulation in every Looper’s contract that he may someday be required to hunt down his future self, thus closing the contract, getting a huge pay-off and erasing any trace of the very illegal arrangement with his or her future employer. This is called Closing Your Loop. Cash out, get paid. Live those 30 years like only a Looper can."
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In the year 2042, a mob hitman assassinates targets that arrive from the future of 2072. For him it's just a job... till he receives a new target: himself from the future.
Running Time: 1 hr 58 min
Release Date: September 28, 2012 (USA)
MPAA Rating: Unknown
Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Piper Perabo, Han Soto, Jeff Daniels
Directed by: Rian Johnson
Written by: Rian Johnson