Fav. movies/movie that take place within a 24 hour time period.

[creekin111]

No flashback, flashforwards, etc. outside of the 24 hour time frame. Not a single scene.
1. High Noon
2. Rebel Without a Cause
3. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
4. Die Hard
5. United 93
6. Training Day

I can't seem to remember if 'The General' took place during a 24 hour time period or any of the Chaplin films.

[QUENTIN]

Sidney Lumet does these movies well and the first two that came to mind were 12 Angry Men and Dog Day Afternoon.

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing is one of my all-time favorites and it takes place all in a 24-hour period in one neighborhood.

Clerks is, for my money, the funniest movie ever and it only covers about 12 hours at a convenience store/video store.

Also, someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think 1964's two great cold war movies, Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove both take place within a 24-hour timeframe from soviet scare to dropping the bomb.

[Backstabba]

Tape and Rope.

Even though they are much more..."limited" than 24 hours, they have no flashbacks or fast-forwards at all. Both of them are done in real time, and I LOVE them.

[Brando @$$ Fat]

Do the Right Thing is the best one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned.

EDIT: Nevermind, sorry QUENTIN.

[QUENTIN]

Originally posted by QUENTIN

Spike Lee's Do The Right Thing is one of my all-time favorites and it takes place all in a 24-hour period in one neighborhood.

Originally posted by Brando @$$ Fat
Do the Right Thing is the best one I can think of that hasn't been mentioned.

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Originally posted by Backstabba
Tape and Rope.

Also great choices.

[cuckoo2]

magnolia

[Riggs]

Back to the Future - Finishes on the same day it started

[Rick-James]

COLLATERAL
NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD
THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
THE EVIL DEAD
DIE HARD

[thedudeman69]

Dazed and Confused.

That movie is great to watch during the summer.

[Le_Big_Mac]

High Noon
Dazed and Confused
Die Hard
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Rope
Do the Right Thing
Dr. Strangelove
United 93
Eraserhead
Back to the Future
Dog Day Afternoon
Before Sunrise

[Gian-Sergio]

Running Scared
Dr. Strangelove
Magnolia
Die Hard
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre

[Cronos]

Phone Booth

[ToiletBug]

Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard 3
Live Free or Die Hard

[cocksmokinclerk]

clerks obviously
clerks 2
night of the living dead
groundhog day
mahnolia

[bigred760]

Originally posted by ToiletBug
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Die Hard 3
Live Free or Die Hard

Am pretty sure the fourth is longer than a day.

Want to throw in Nick of Time - underappreciated movie.

[jeo4]

Originally posted by cocksmokinclerk
clerks obviously
clerks 2
night of the living dead
groundhog day

Edited so it becomes a list I love.

[teenkiller]

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE
THE EVIL DEAD leading into THE EVIL DEAD 2
Night of the Living Dead original and remake
Stand By Me
The Goonies
Falling Down
Aside from the intro Clerks 2

Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[creekin111]

Does 'American Graffiti' fall into this category?

[artguylarry]

Sixteen Candles
The Breakfast Club
Waking Life
The Wizard of Oz
One Fine Day
The Telephone
House on Haunted Hill
Rat Race
Trick
D.O.A.
Twister
The Poseidon Adventure

Technically:
Mr. Destiny
13 Going on 30
1408

[Monotreme]

I'm pretty sure Pulp Fiction all takes place in the same day, if you put it in chronological order.

Waking Life, another "sort of" entry because the time aspect isn't exactly clear in it.

In The Hours, each one of the three women's stories takes place over the course of one day, but there are the three seperate stories and not just one, so it sort-of-but-not-quite counts.

And some more concrete examples: Fargo, Babel, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, 25th Hour.

[RandalGraves]

Clerks I & II
Die Hard(s)
Twister
Commando
Crank
Escape from L.A.
Collateral
United 93

[jeo4]

How could I forget The Breakfast Club?? That movie kicked ass.

[QUENTIN]

Originally posted by Monotreme
I'm pretty sure Pulp Fiction all takes place in the same day, if you put it in chronological order.

Waking Life, another "sort of" entry because the time aspect isn't exactly clear in it.

In The Hours, each one of the three women's stories takes place over the course of one day, but there are the three seperate stories and not just one, so it sort-of-but-not-quite counts.

And some more concrete examples: Fargo, Babel, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, 25th Hour.

Pulp Fiction and especially Fargo take place over several days. They both span more like a week's time.

[Le_Big_Mac]

Originally posted by Monotreme
I'm pretty sure Pulp Fiction all takes place in the same day, if you put it in chronological order.

Chronologically, Pulp Fiction starts one morning and ends the next morning or later. It's possible but it probably goes, at the least, a little over 24 hours. You'd have to ask Tarantino.

[Monotreme]

Originally posted by Le_Big_Mac
Chronologically, Pulp Fiction starts one morning and ends the next morning or later. It's possible but it probably goes, at the least, a little over 24 hours. You'd have to ask Tarantino.

I guess I always assumed it was a sort of morning-to-morning stretch, Butch's fight being on the same night as Vince's night out with Mia, and the rest of the Butch story taking place the morning after, which would put it in at just over a 24-hour timeframe. Then again, there is also a flashback, if ever so brief. Close, but no quarter.

[Adam J. Hakari]

ROPE, Hitchcock's finest hour.

[Kikabi]

magnolia
Die Hard
Clerks
Phone Booth
Collateral
Identity
Feast
Evil Dead I and II

[ilovemovies]

People mentioned United 93 and that was really good but I thought World Trade Center was even better. A masterpiece infact.

[pablo_super1!]

[Kikabi]

Originally posted by ilovemovies
People mentioned United 93 and that was really good but I thought World Trade Center was even better. A masterpiece infact.

I haven't gotten up the never to see either one, esp World Trade Center since it takes place right there. But I've become more curious about them; maybe that'll override my fear of getting too depressed by them.

[artguylarry]

Anyone heard of 11:14?

[WebHed]

this one i think finished way under 24 hours

[ToiletBug]

The Shawshank Redemption...................






haha jk. What was that like 20 years of andy's life lol.

[Pride]

Originally posted by bigred760
Am pretty sure the fourth is longer than a day.

Want to throw in Nick of Time - underappreciated movie.

Glad you said Nick of Time, beat me to it

[Pride]

Originally posted by ilovemovies
People mentioned United 93 and that was really good but I thought World Trade Center was even better. A masterpiece infact.

World Trade Center did have its good points (the falling building scence was spectacular) and also managed to connect me emotionally at times, but overall I found the movie boring.

[teenkiller]

Didn't Run, Lola, Run take place within 24 hours? I have never seen it but isn't it about the same story retold through three different viewpoints? Well thats all for now GOoD JOURNEY my fellow schmoes.

[Cronos]

Originally posted by teenkiller
Didn't Run, Lola, Run take place within 24 hours?

yup, damn good film too

[marcia brady]

ok. i'm not sure- but i believe Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind begins and ends on the same day- February 14. I'm gonna rewatch it again, try and figure it out.

on another note, i watched United 93 for the first time yesterday. Was shock up for HOURS.

[creekin111]

Originally posted by marcia brady
ok. i'm not sure- but i believe Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind begins and ends on the same day- February 14. I'm gonna rewatch it again, try and figure it out.

on another note, i watched United 93 for the first time yesterday. Was shock up for HOURS.

From what I can remember about 'Spotless' is that it definitely uses visual flashbacks. But my memory of that film is slowly disappearing.

'United 93' makes 'World Trade Center' look like a mining accident movie. I think I wouldn't have liked 'WTC' at all if not for the subject matter.

[Lazy Boy]