12:01 Page #3

Synopsis: Barry Thomas is the average office worker. He becomes attracted to Lisa Fredericks who works in the same company. After work, Barry witnesses the murder of Lisa and goes to a bar to get drunk. Later that night, there is a storm and Barry gets a shock from a lamp's faulty power wire at exactly 12:01 am. The next morning, he realizes that everything is happening exactly as it did the previous day. The next morning the day is repeated again. It is now Barry's job--being the only person alive who is aware of this time loop--to stop the murder of Lisa, and stop the time loop or be caught in time forever.
Director(s): Jack Sholder
Production: New Line Home Entertainment
  2 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Rotten Tomatoes:
40%
PG-13
Year:
1993
92 min
163 Views


HI, REYNALDO.

SEORITA.

AH. I WAN A DOZEN, PLEASE.

OH?

OH, THOSE

ARE QUITE BEAUTIFUL.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

POR NADA, SEORITA.

[TIRES SCREECH]

YOU SAY THIS HAPPENED JUST AFTER WORK?

YEAH.

WHAT TIME:

WAS THAT?

DID YOU KNOW:

MISS FREDERICKS?

NO.

NO, I DIDN' KNOW HER AT ALL.

I'M SORRY, BARRY. I KNOW

HOW MUCH YOU CARED ABOUT HER.

I'M QUITTING TOMORROW.

WHAT?

GETTING ON:

WITH MY LIFE.

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING

ABOUT? WHAT ABOUT ME?

IF I STAY ONE MORE DAY, WHAT DO I HAVE?

I HAVE MY PANTS BEHIND A

DESK, THAT'S WHAT I HAVE.

WE NEED TWO MORE

OF THESE, PLEASE.

MY DAD SAID I'D NEVER AMOUNT TO MUCH.

I DON'T WAN TO DISAPPOINT HIM.

LOOK, I DON'T KNOW WHA YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

WHATEVER HAPPENED

TODAY WAS HORRIBLE,

BUT WE DON'T STOP.

WE KEEP GOING.

ARE YOU GOING:

TO TURN BACK?

MAYBE.

NO.

[POTTERY CLATTERS]

[THUNDER]

TIME?

THE TIME IS 12:
00.

I WONDER WHA SHE WAS THINKING ABOUT.

NOT ABOUT ME,

THAT'S FOR SURE.

LAZY BOY.

[THUNDER]

[LIGHT BULB CRACKLES]

[CRACKLING]

[CRACKLING]

I DON'T HAVE TIME

FOR THIS.

THE TIME IS 12:
01.

[BEEP BEEP]

THE TIME IS 7:
35.

PLEASE WAKE UP.

[BEEP BEEP]

WAKE UP. WAKE UP.

[BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ

BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ]

OH, PLEASE.

I HAVE A HANGOVER.

LAZY BOY,

PLEASE WAKE UP.

PLEASE WAKE UP.

[BEEP BEEP]

NO, I DON'T.

...THIS CUTTING

EDGE PROJEC:

BY RESEARCHERS:

IN PARTICLE PHYSICS

HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN BY

GOVERNMENT ORDER. HOSEA?

MARY, BIG NEWS

AT UTREL CORPORATION.

RESEARCHERS HERE WORKING

ON PARTICLE PHYSICS

BELIEVE THEY'VE

DISCOVERED A WAY

TO ACCELERATE:

A SUBATOMIC PARTICLE

FASTER THAN:

THE SPEED OF LIGHT.

THEY ARE USING:

A GROUNDBREAKING DEVICE

CALLED A SUPERACCELERATOR.

COME ON, HOSEA,

THAT'S OLD NEWS.

WHAT ABOU LISA'S MURDER?

...FINALLY ORDERED A COMPLETE

SHUTDOWN OF THE PROJECT.

THIS TOOL WILL HELP US

TO FINALLY DEFINE THE

NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE

AND HARNESS ITS ENERGY.

NOW, IMAGINE

A FACILITY THIS SIZE

POWERING HALF THE STATE OF

CALIFORNIA. IT'S REMARKABLE.

IF WE COULD ACTUALLY

POWER A PARTICLE

FASTER THAN THE SPEED

OF LIGHT,

THE ENERGY RELEASED

WOULD BE CATASTROPHIC.

TIME AND SPACE:

WOULD BE SHATTERED.

WE'D BE PUNCHED

BACKWARDS IN TIME

AND THEN MOVE FORWARD

UNTIL THE ACCELERATOR IS FIRED

AGAIN, AND WE'LL PUNCH BACK AGAIN

IN AN ENDLESS LOOP,

LIKE A SKIPPING RECORD.

THIS CIRCULAR TIME BOUNCE

WOULD BECOME OUR PRISON,

AND WE'D BE PRISONERS

WITHOUT MEMORY:

IN A CELL:

WITHOUT A KEY.

WHICH THEORY IS TRUE?

ANOTHER TUNE GOING OUT OVER

THE KBRY LOVERS' REQUEST...

YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. SCIENTIS KILLED AT WORK. COME ON.

...AND TEMPERATURES WILL

DIMINISH BY EARLY NEXT WEEK.

WE MAY S--

ONE OF US FELL DOWN

LAST NIGHT.

OH, MAN, I'M GOING

TO BE LATE AGAIN.

O.K., I WAS DRUNK.

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