In Time
In Time is a 2011 American science fiction action film written, directed and produced by Andrew Niccol. Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake star as inhabitants in a society where people stop aging at 25. Instead of using paper money, a new economic system uses time as currency, and each person has a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live. Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Johnny Galecki, Collins Pennie and Alex Pettyfer also star. The film was released on October 28, 2011.
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In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal currency, transferred directly between people or stored in "time capsules". Several major areas called Time Zones exist within Ohio. Dayton is the poorest, a manufacturing "ghetto" where people rarely have more than 24 hours on their clocks; in New Greenwich, people have enough time to be essentially immortal.
Will Salas is a Dayton factory worker, who sees a group of time-robbing thugs led by Fortis going after a drunken man named Henry Hamilton and saves him. Hamilton has 116 years on his clock, but is tired of living. He reveals that the people of New Greenwich hoard most of the time to live forever, while arranging for constantly increasing prices so that poorer people keep dying. The next morning, he transfers his time to a sleeping Will, then times out. Raymond Leon, who leads a unit of police-like Timekeepers, erroneously considers Will a suspect in Hamilton's death.
Will visits his friend Borel, who warns him that having so much time in Dayton will get him killed. Will gives Borel 10 years, one for each year of their friendship, and goes to meet his mother to leave for New Greenwich together. However, the city bus fare has risen from 1 to 2 hours, and Rachel, having used all but 90 minutes of her time to pay off a 2-day loan, is short on bus fare to return to Dayton. She tries to run to meet Will, but times out at the last moment and dies in his arms.
In New Greenwich, Will visits a casino and meets time-loaning businessman Philippe Weis and his daughter Sylvia. While playing poker, Will comes dangerously close to timing out but eventually wins more than a millennium in a flawless gamble. Sylvia invites him to a party, and Will buys a new sports car and drives there. Raymond arrives and arrests Will. Rather than attempting to prove Will's guilt, he simply confiscates almost all of Will's time, saying that it does not belong in Dayton.
Will escapes, taking Sylvia to Dayton as a hostage. Ambushed by Fortis' gang, they are left with 30 minutes each. Will attempts to get some time back from Borel, but his wife Greta tearfully explains that he has drunk himself to death. They manage to get a day each by selling Sylvia's earrings. Will calls Weis to demand a 1,000-year ransom to be paid into the time-mission for the desperate. When Weis refuses, Will releases Sylvia anyway. Raymond finds Will, but Sylvia shoots him in the arm. Will gives Raymond enough time to survive, and steals his car.
With Sylvia now sharing Will's commitment to ending the system, they rob her father's time banks, giving the extra time capsules to the needy, but soon realize that they cannot significantly change anything, as prices are simply raised faster. They get attacked by Fortis' gang again, but Will manages to time out Fortis in an arm wrestling match and then shoot all his thugs. They decide to rob Weis' vault of a 1,000,000-year capsule. Raymond chases them back to Dayton but is too late to stop them from distributing the stolen time. The chase continues but, caught up in the moment, Raymond forgets to download his day's salary, and times out. Will and Sylvia nearly time out themselves, but survive by taking Raymond's salary for themselves.
TV reports show factories in Dayton shutting down as everyone has enough time and abandons their jobs. Having seen the consequences of Raymond's obsession with Will and Sylvia, Jaeger orders the Timekeepers to go back home. Will and Sylvia move on to robbing larger banks, still trying to crash the system.
In Time
In Time is a 2011 American science fiction action film written, directed and produced by Andrew Niccol. Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake star as inhabitants in a society where people stop aging at 25. Instead of using paper money, a new economic system uses time as currency, and each person has a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live. Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Johnny Galecki, Collins Pennie and Alex Pettyfer also star. The film was released on October 28, 2011.
Plot[edit] In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday, when a one-year countdown on their forearm begins. When it reaches zero, the person "times out" and dies instantly. Time has thus become the universal currency, transferred directly between people or stored in "time capsules". Several major areas called Time Zones exist within Ohio. Dayton is the poorest, a manufacturing "ghetto" where people rarely have more than 24 hours on their clocks; in New Greenwich, people have enough time to be essentially immortal.
Will Salas is a Dayton factory worker, who sees a group of time-robbing thugs led by Fortis going after a drunken man named Henry Hamilton and saves him. Hamilton has 116 years on his clock, but is tired of living. He reveals that the people of New Greenwich hoard most of the time to live forever, while arranging for constantly increasing prices so that poorer people keep dying. The next morning, he transfers his time to a sleeping Will, then times out. Raymond Leon, who leads a unit of police-like Timekeepers, erroneously considers Will a suspect in Hamilton's death.
Will visits his friend Borel, who warns him that having so much time in Dayton will get him killed. Will gives Borel 10 years, one for each year of their friendship, and goes to meet his mother to leave for New Greenwich together. However, the city bus fare has risen from 1 to 2 hours, and Rachel, having used all but 90 minutes of her time to pay off a 2-day loan, is short on bus fare to return to Dayton. She tries to run to meet Will, but times out at the last moment and dies in his arms.
In New Greenwich, Will visits a casino and meets time-loaning businessman Philippe Weis and his daughter Sylvia. While playing poker, Will comes dangerously close to timing out but eventually wins more than a millennium in a flawless gamble. Sylvia invites him to a party, and Will buys a new sports car and drives there. Raymond arrives and arrests Will. Rather than attempting to prove Will's guilt, he simply confiscates almost all of Will's time, saying that it does not belong in Dayton.
Will escapes, taking Sylvia to Dayton as a hostage. Ambushed by Fortis' gang, they are left with 30 minutes each. Will attempts to get some time back from Borel, but his wife Greta tearfully explains that he has drunk himself to death. They manage to get a day each by selling Sylvia's earrings. Will calls Weis to demand a 1,000-year ransom to be paid into the time-mission for the desperate. When Weis refuses, Will releases Sylvia anyway. Raymond finds Will, but Sylvia shoots him in the arm. Will gives Raymond enough time to survive, and steals his car.
With Sylvia now sharing Will's commitment to ending the system, they rob her father's time banks, giving the extra time capsules to the needy, but soon realize that they cannot significantly change anything, as prices are simply raised faster. They get attacked by Fortis' gang again, but Will manages to time out Fortis in an arm wrestling match and then shoot all his thugs. They decide to rob Weis' vault of a 1,000,000-year capsule. Raymond chases them back to Dayton but is too late to stop them from distributing the stolen time. The chase continues but, caught up in the moment, Raymond forgets to download his day's salary, and times out. Will and Sylvia nearly time out themselves, but survive by taking Raymond's salary for themselves.
TV reports show factories in Dayton shutting down as everyone has enough time and abandons their jobs. Having seen the consequences of Raymond's obsession with Will and Sylvia, Jaeger orders the Timekeepers to go back home. Will and Sylvia move on to robbing larger banks, still trying to crash the system.