In Time Page #5

Synopsis: Welcome to a world where time has become the ultimate currency. You stop aging at 25, but there's a catch: you're genetically-engineered to live only one more year, unless you can buy your way out of it. The rich "earn" decades at a time (remaining at age 25), becoming essentially immortal, while the rest beg, borrow or steal enough hours to make it through the day. When a man from the wrong side of the tracks is falsely accused of murder, he is forced to go on the run with a beautiful hostage. Living minute to minute, the duo's love becomes a powerful tool in their war against the system.
Director(s): Andrew Niccol
Production: 20th Century Fox
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.7
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
36%
PG-13
Year:
2011
109 min
$35,900,000
Website
9,148 Views


are looking for stolen time,

maybe you should arrest everyone here.

Oh, I see.

You're talking about justice.

Well, I am a Timekeeper.

I don't concern myself with "justice. "

I only concern myself

with what I can measure.

Seconds, minutes, hours.

I keep time.

And that time is in the wrong hands.

That time will be held, along with you.

We'll leave you two hours

for booking and processing.

Why are you investigating a suicide?

There's mass murder

in the ghetto every day.

That is fascinating.

Huh.

I heard another man talk like that.

It was over 20 years ago.

You're probably too young

to remember your father.

We'll arrange safe transport.

This is New Greenwich, after all.

Sylvia? Do as I say and go with the guards.

Oh, for God's sake, Father.

There's an army in this house.

If we can't stop one man from killing us,

we should kill ourselves.

Stop him!

Move! Get out of the way!

Put it down or I'll blow her head off.

Thanks.

You're going to kill us!

Please just let me out!

What are you doing?

Do you even know how to drive?

What's there to know?

Oh, sh*t.

Give me some time.

I guess you really are

from the ghetto, after all.

What the hell do you know about

where I'm from? Give me some time.

Or you're gonna kill me,

like you killed Henry Hamilton?

Lend me an hour.

I'm not giving you a second.

I should have listened to my father.

Please, take me home. Please.

- I can't do that.

- Why?

You're keeping me alive.

Keep that covered.

Anybody sees it, you're definitely dead.

Now that worked too well.

You guys wasted a gorgeous car.

Look who it is.

Who it was.

He's done in minutes.

He'll wake up dead. That'll be a shock.

Too bad. I would have preferred to

kill him more beautifully.

The girl's still breathing.

She's got a decade.

Holy sh*t.

The man he stole from me

had more than a century.

What? We'll divide it later.

It's like an angel fell from the sky.

Fortis!

Leave it!

Fortis!

Look at me.

You okay?

No.

Why are you laughing?

We're not dead.

Yeah, we're not alive for long, either.

Where did my time go? I have a half hour!

Ah.

You're lucky.

- Minutemen.

- Does everyone in the ghetto steal?

That's rich, coming from you.

- Please help me, Will.

- Let me guess,

now you like the idea of sharing.

Come here.

Hey, don't worry. It's not the

first time I've been this broke.

Well, it's a first for me.

What are we going to do?

Whatever we have to.

Come on, we got to go.

Dispatch, wire me my per diem.

Time transfer.

Cutting it close again, sir.

Well, I'm still walking around.

Judging by the lack of dead bodies,

I have to assume they are also.

They got jacked. They couldn't have

left here with more than minutes.

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Andrew Niccol

Andrew M. Niccol is a New Zealand screenwriter, producer, and director. He wrote and directed Gattaca, S1m0ne, Lord of War, In Time, The Host, and Good Kill. more…

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