History Film / InTime

** The government has created a system where each citizen has a gun to his or her head, and people drop dead in the streets (which is commonplace enough that everyone shrugs it off) as these guns are constantly triggered. What to do in such a situation? Why, constantly repeat how 'necessary'' the system is!

** A Minute Man and a random civilian were seeing holding one when they met. Too bad for the latter, though.
** Another confrontation with Will and some Minute Men had one if them holding one before he died.

* PrettyInMink: A white fur wrap is worn by Sylvia when she first meets will. A lady she and Will hold up wears a sable jacket.

It shares quite a few elements from "Time is Money", a short story by [[ComicStrip/ThePhantom Lee Falk]] first published in ''Magazine/{{Playboy}}'' in 1975. Is strongly reminiscent of both ''Film/LogansRun'' and ''Film/TheFugitive'', though it's not a remake of either. It also shares some elements with ''Film/{{Equilibrium}}''. Creator/HarlanEllison[[note]][[TradeSnark © 2005 Harlan Ellison]][[/note]] sued to try to get it withdrawn on the basis that it was an unauthorized adaptation of his story "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Ticktockman", but on November 4, 2011, he ultimately agreed to a settlement similar to what he got for ''Film/TheTerminator'' (i.e. his name will be added to the credits). He ultimately dropped the suit altogether before the month was out, having seen the film.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything:
** Daughter of a wealthy family gets kidnapped and assists in a series of bank robberies. Patty Hearst, anyone?
** The movie was released in the wake of Occupy Wall Street and boy, does it show.

* CrapsackWorld: Will's mom Rachel is compassionate, beautiful and intelligent, with fifty years of life experience in a 25 years old body and the capacity to live forever. The system casually murders her, for no other reason than it being ruled by people who consider her to be a worthless waste of space. The rest of the story goes out of its way to show that this kind of tragedy happens all the time, since it's simply how the system works. It is also clearly established that the lack of time is artificial. ''Everyone'' could live forever, but the government chose to murder poor people in the interest of avoiding overpopulation, and to keep the rich families rich. Whether or not space expansion would be a viable option isn't mentioned, probably because nobody cares.

* AbusiveParents: While the context makes it ( a little ) sympathetic , some of the ghetto residents are shown to wish they could use the time of their pre-25 children as well as their own . Also extremely disturbing is the mother holding her newborn child, looking at him tenderly and speaking in a sweet voice of how she would like to shorten her baby's life span.

* PyrrhicVillainy: Fortis tries to shake down a guy for his time, but Will's Robin Hood antics have given him enough of a surplus to buy a gun. Since he can't strongarm the guy, Fortis just shoots him in a moment of anger, thus killing him and rendering his surplus time unobtainable.

* CastFromLifespan: [[UpToEleven This has actually replaced money.]] Everything is paid for in time, salary is paid out in time, and running out of time is instant death. The wealthy have centuries -- or even millennia -- to spare, while the lower class live day to day.

* AbusiveParents: While the context makes it sympathetic, some of the ghetto residents are shown to wish they could use the time of their pre-25 children as well as their own.

* {{Handwave}}: The movie opens with one to avoid explaining why and how the time system was set up.
-->'''Will''' (voiceover): “[[invoked]][[MST3KMantra I don’t have time to worry about how it happened. It is what it is]]. We’re genetically engineered to stop aging at 25. Trouble is we only live one more year … unless we can get more time.”

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'' which is also an Andrew Niccol film about a man on the run, trying to disrupt a slobs vs. snobs class system in a dystopian future.

* HeroicSacrifice: The rich man who gives away almost all of his time to the protagonist, leaving himself only enough to walk over to the nearest bridge and die. The amount? Over 100 years. Will was pretty close to the wire at the time, making it likely that his own heroism in saving the guy could have been a fatal endeavor.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Everyone hates Leon. Once he got an unwanted rescue and attempts to leave, they break off the phone cord and started jeering him on when his partner came to pick him up. [[spoiler:It doesn't help the fact that he was like them]]. Also, his colleagues only carried out his orders because he's the leader of the Timekeepers, so once he times out, none of them continued pursuing Will and Sylvia, not even his partner.

* SmugSnake: Phillipe Weis, as played by the apparently type-cast Vincent Kartheiser.

->''"For a few to be immortal, many must die."''

*** "No one should be immortal, if even one person has to die."

* FictionalCurrency: A person's remaining lifespan can be extended or reduced depending on how it is traded. One's time, quite literally, is money in this world.

* FictionalCurrency: Time, quite literally, is money in this world.

* ShoutOut: Director Andrew Niccol makes some to his earlier films.
** The car driven by Will as well as the beach from the Weis Estate are the same ones from ''Film/{{Gattaca}}''.
** The director's wife, actress and supermodel Rachel Roberts (who played the eponymous character in ''Film/{{S1m0ne}}'') makes a [[TheCameo cameo]] possibly as a nod to the movie.

* CapitalismIsBad: This film connects capitalism with [[TheSocialDarwinist social darwinism]] in an {{anvilicious}} way. Wages are decreased and prices are increased by fiat, meaning the purpose of the system is to ''[[KillThePoor Work The Poor To Death]]'' at a controllable rate.

-->'''Will''' (voiceover): “[[MST3KMantra I don’t have time to worry about how it happened. It is what it is]]. We’re genetically engineered to stop aging at 25. Trouble is we only live one more year … unless we can get more time.”

* ModernStasis: The movie is set in 2069, but aside from advances in genetic engineering, which started the whole thing, progress seems to have ground to a halt. In fact, Dayton seems to have less technology than current times. People rely on payphones, for example. Justified, as many modern conveniences would probably make time earning easier...and that defeats the purpose of the system currently in place. Though we only see them in Dayton, where people probably have more urgent things to spend their sparse time on than mobile phones.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Film/{{Gattaca}}'' which is also about a ''man on the run, trying to disrupt a slobs vs. snobs class system in a crapsaccharine future world''.

* CapitalismIsBad: This film connects capitalism with social darwinism in an {{anvilicious}} way. Wages are decreased and prices are increased by fiat, meaning the purpose of the system is to ''[[KillThePoor Work The Poor To Death]]'' at a controllable rate.

In a retro-future when the aging gene has been switched off, people must pay to stay alive; though everybody stops aging at 25, stamped on their arm is a clock showing how long they have left to live, a year, which starts ticking the instant they reach 25 years of age. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man is accused of murder when he receives a fortune of time from a dead upper class man, and is forced to go on the run from an FBI-like police force known as the Timekeepers. The poor also live in fear of the Minute Men, a ruthless gang that robs people of all their time, killing them.

In a retro-future when the aging gene has been switched off, people must pay to stay alive; though everybody stops aging at 25, stamped on their arm is a clock showing how long they have left to live. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man is accused of murder when he receives a fortune of time from a dead upper class man, and is forced to go on the run from an FBI-like police force known as the Timekeepers. The poor also live in fear of the Minute Men, a ruthless gang that robs people of all their time, killing them.

In a retro-future when the aging gene has been switched off, people must pay to stay alive; though everybody stops aging at 25, stamped on their arm is a clock showing how long they have left to live. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man is accused of murder when he receives a fortune of time from a dead upper class man, and is forced to go on the run from an FBI-like police force known as the 'Timekeepers'. The poor also live in fear of the 'Minute Men', a ruthless gang that robs people of all their time, killing them.

A 2011 Sci-Fi Action/Adventure film by Creator/AndrewNiccol starring Music/JustinTimberlake, Creator/AmandaSeyfried, Creator/CillianMurphy, Vincent Kartheiser, and Creator/OliviaWilde.

* ConspicuousCG: The car rolling down the hill.

* SpoiledSweet: Sylvia, but only to a certain extent because she isn't the most saintly person around. Still, even though she is the daughter of the richest man in their world and is able to get anything she wants, she doesn't seem to be particularly spoiled or demanding even when reduced to poverty in the ghetto.