Kind of a cool sub-genre, list movies where there is no significant passage of time. It can be 1.5 days or even closer to 2 days as long as there is continual action and the main character(s) doesn't sleep or otherwise go MIA for several hours, so The Hangover doesn't count. It has to be for the entire film, which is why Speed doesn't count, since the first 10 minutes were all about the bomb in the building and Pop Quiz Hotshot.

I don't want to be that asshole who makes the thread then takes all the good examples, so I'll list a dozen or so and then see what the rest of you can come up with

Training Day
All 4 Die Hards (I think)
Collateral
Clerks
Phone Booth
After Hours
Dazed and Confused
Harold and Kumar
Go





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3/16/2010 9:04:05 AM

24- The Movie.

3/16/2010 9:11:01 AM

25th Hour
Reservoir Dogs
12 Angry Men
Empire Records
Can't Hardly Wait

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3/16/2010 9:14:16 AM

Resovoir Dogs is all about flashbacks

3/16/2010 9:15:55 AM

and

Quote :

"Pop Quiz Hotshot"

I love this line

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3/16/2010 9:16:54 AM

^^wasn't sure if that DQd a movie or not since you didn't say. 25th Hour contains a lot of flashbacks too if I recall but it is certainly meant to be over the course of one day/short period of time.

[Edited on March 16, 2010 at 9:17 AM. Reason : ]

3/16/2010 9:17:18 AM

it's been awhile since i've seen either one, but I think Crank and Crank 2 fit this model.

This is pretty tough though...

are you saying movies with a prologue that happened a few years before do or do not count?

3/16/2010 9:33:08 AM

Superbad is so close.

Mallrats fits the criteria, I think.

[Edited on March 16, 2010 at 9:35 AM. Reason : .]

3/16/2010 9:34:16 AM

Prologue or Epilogue disqualifies it

I think Comedies are easy to film as one day movies since its usually just about 4 jagoffs wandering around doing dumb shit

Dramas and action movies are much more difficult and rarer because its hard to keep up that breakneck pace for 90+ consecutive minutes

3/16/2010 9:39:35 AM

Not the 4th die hard

Pulp Fiction (just the John Travolta storyline)
Memphis Belle

3/16/2010 9:42:09 AM

Enemy of the State with Will Smith is very close...it might be 2 days max.

3/16/2010 9:42:14 AM

serenity?

3/16/2010 9:44:56 AM

http://brentroad.com/message_topic.aspx?topic=590016

3/16/2010 9:53:28 AM

PHONEBOOTH

3/16/2010 10:17:20 AM

nice, can't believe no one's mentioned that yet

3/16/2010 10:23:28 AM

2 Days in the Valley

...wait, fuck

3/16/2010 10:24:42 AM

Ha ha, The 25th Hour.

3/16/2010 10:25:10 AM

Children of Men?

3/16/2010 10:26:13 AM

Friday
Next Friday
Friday after Next

3/16/2010 10:30:00 AM

Time Code
Nick of Time

3/16/2010 10:31:26 AM

shit already been said

[Edited on March 16, 2010 at 10:33 AM. Reason : .]

3/16/2010 10:33:33 AM

3/16/2010 10:36:19 AM

Duel

3/16/2010 11:05:31 AM

Technically the entire Back to the Future trilogy took place over the course of one day

edit: nm, now that I think about it, Marty doesn't go back in time until after we wakes up at 1am to meet the doc at twin pines mall.

[Edited on March 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM. Reason : ]

3/16/2010 11:18:11 AM

I didn't see the first 15 minutes, but Last House on the Left. Its seems like many of the George Romero type zombie movies were one day films.

3/16/2010 11:28:58 AM

Quote :

"It can be 1.5 days or even closer to 2 days as long as there is continual action and the main character(s) doesn't sleep or otherwise go MIA for several hours, so The Hangover doesn't count."

that's stupid...Justin Bertha doesn't even make top billing on the movie poster. he's by no means a "main character."


A Long Day's Journey Into Night

3/16/2010 11:36:35 AM

Listen, lady, I wasn't even talking about "Justin Bertha", I was talking about Bradley Cooper, Andy Bernard and Zach Galfnakakis.

I distinctly remember there being a scene where they woke up from a night of drinking, thus splitting the movie into two days, thus splitting the movie into two parts, thus violating the principle of taking place in one day.

You're the stupid one.

3/16/2010 11:42:15 AM

Cloverfield

3/16/2010 11:50:09 AM

Quote :

"thus splitting the movie into two days,"

Quote :

"It can be 1.5 days or even closer to 2 days"

so can it be closer to 2 days or can't it by your definition?

as far as Justin Bertha the

Quote :

"go MIA for several hours"

threw me off. I thought that was your basis for disqualifying The Hangover. My apologies.

Regardles the majority of the movie takes place during your specified time period. the set up of leaving for vegas and the finale of finally getting home is at best 20 minutes of a nearly 2 hour movie.

3/16/2010 11:54:04 AM

Then you would have to count Speed, Superbad, Pulp Fiction and dozens of other movies where the majority of it occurs in day but there is a little extra and the beginning or end that doesn't. I did this because those are a lot more ambiguous and harder to classify.

By saying 1.5 to 2 days, this allows for a period greater than 24 hours as long as there is constant action and not a break to sleep, pass out, or something that requires a significant passage of time. I'm pretty sure Die Hard 3 takes more than 24 hours but its nonstop throughout; Bruce and Samuel L. don't take a nap or anything in second act.

3/16/2010 12:00:12 PM

never ending story the kid

3/16/2010 12:00:50 PM

I forget...I think Spun took place over 3 days but Jason Schwartzman didn't sleep the entire time. However, I havent seen that movie in like 8 years so I can't remember.

[Edited on March 16, 2010 at 12:06 PM. Reason : ]

3/16/2010 12:05:53 PM

Never seen it, Jason Schwartzman bothers me

Also, 11:14

3/16/2010 12:08:37 PM

Memento (i think it's a day)
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Die Hard

3/16/2010 12:47:12 PM

My Dinner with Andre
Before Sunset
Before Sunrise
subUrbia
Dog Day Afternoon
Do The Right Thing
Breakfast Club
Sixteen Candles
Go
Duck Season

[Edited on March 16, 2010 at 12:50 PM. Reason : ...]

3/16/2010 12:49:56 PM

16 Blocks with Bruce Willis and Mos Def

3/16/2010 12:54:14 PM

one fine day

3/16/2010 1:41:55 PM

Run Lola Run?

3/16/2010 2:14:13 PM

Goonies

3/16/2010 3:05:37 PM

The fact that it cant have any epilogue or anything makes it tough (Still tons of movies to name, but a lot of the ones I initially thought off I had to omit). IE Death and the Maiden is awesome and takes place in mainly one single location on one night but it has an epilogue

[Edited on March 16, 2010 at 3:24 PM. Reason : ]

3/16/2010 3:23:27 PM

Shit, this is one of my favorite flicks.

3/16/2010 3:33:17 PM

Slacker
Rope

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3/16/2010 3:33:27 PM

I forgot about Slacker. Tape works, too. I already mentioned Before Sunrise/Sunset and suBurbia. I guess you could add Waking Life as well.

Richard Linklater loves a highly constrained time frame.

[Edited on March 16, 2010 at 3:39 PM. Reason : ...]

3/16/2010 3:37:18 PM

Quote :

"Memento (i think it's a day)"

no

3/16/2010 3:37:51 PM

Quote :

"Then you would have to count Speed, Superbad, Pulp Fiction and dozens of other movies where the majority of it occurs in day but there is a little extra and the beginning or end that doesn't. I did this because those are a lot more ambiguous and harder to classify."

meh.

i don't like your rules

3/16/2010 3:40:52 PM

yeah, Memento is like 2 weeks or so iirc?

3/16/2010 3:41:08 PM

i think Smiley Face with Anna Farris is all in one day, I can't remember

3/16/2010 3:43:15 PM

The Dan Brown books turned into movies occur in one day I think.

3/16/2010 3:44:08 PM

how about The Chase, starring Charlie Sheen and Kristy Swanson

3/16/2010 3:48:15 PM

Ferris Bueller's Day Off

3/16/2010 3:49:41 PM