In the not-too-distant future, the aging gene has been switched off. 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 struggle to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man who suddenly comes into a fortune of time finds himself on the run from a corrupt police force known as the "time keepers".
Production
Seamless retro-future aesthetic; no smartphones, just timeless oppression.
Acting
Cillian Murphy's exhausted timekeeper deserves his own gritty spinoff.
Director
Andrew Niccol
Amanda Seyfried
Sylvia Weis
Justin Timberlake
Will Salas
Cillian Murphy
Raymond Leon
Vincent Kartheiser
Philippe Weis
Olivia Wilde
Rachel Salas
Matt Bomer
Henry Hamilton
Johnny Galecki
Borel
Collins Pennie
Timekeeper Jaeger
Toby Hemingway
Timekeeper Kors
Brendan Miller
Kolber
Yaya DaCosta
Greta
Alex Pettyfer
Fortis
Shyloh Oostwald
Mya
Colin McGurk
Citizen
Will Harris
Ulysse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film's tagline 'Time is money' isn't metaphor—characters literally pay with minutes tattooed on their forearms, and director Andrew Niccol insisted on practical LED prosthetics rather than CGI.
Released during Occupy Wall Street, the film's 1% vs. 99% allegory was so on-the-nose that critics called it 'Occupy: The Movie,' though Niccol had written the script years earlier.
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