In Time

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• Genre: SciFi/Fantasy
• Release Date: 2011-10-28 Nationwide
• Running Time: 109 min.
• Director: Andrew Niccol
• Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Justin Timberlake, Alex Pettyfer, Cillian Murphy, Olivia Wilde, Elena Satine, Ethan Peck, Matthew Bomer, Vincent Kartheiser
• Producer: Marc Abraham, Eric Newman
• Writer: Andrew Niccol
• Distributor: 20th Century Fox
• Official Site: In Time Official Site

Set in an unspecified future, In Time owes as much to The Marx-Engels Reader as Bonnie and Clyde. Time is money: Everyone is genetically engineered to stop aging at 25 in the latest by writer-director Andrew Niccol (Gattaca, Lord of War); after that, people will live for only one more year unless they can gain access to more hours, days, weeks, etc. A cup of coffee costs four minutes, lunch at an upscale restaurant eight-and-a-half weeks. The distribution of wealth is about as lopsided as it is today, with the richest having at least a century remaining and the poorest surviving minute to minute. A child of the ghetto, Will (Justin Timberlake), wrongly accused in a prosperous man's death, sees his mother (Olivia Wilde) die — "time out" — in his arms and then vows to destroy the grossly inequitable system. He ends up kidnapping a tycoon's daughter, the sleekly bobbed beauty Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried), who needs little convincing to join his mission to redistribute the hours. A pleasing, often rousing movie for the 99 percent, In Time is not without flaws. The jokiness of substituting "time" for "money" — "You must come from time," the tycoon says to Will —wears thin after its millionth iteration. But Timberlake and Seyfried make a foxy, well-matched duo. It seems that Niccol also had Marx in mind when casting his leads: "from each according to his ability."