In Time (2011)

Could you imagine living in a future era where TIME is the global currency?

Well, Will Salas (Justin Timberlake) lives in such an era and all he ever really wants is to wake up each morning with more Time on his hand, than Hours in a day. You see, everyone is genetically engineered to stop aging on the Hour, Minute and Second of the day that they turn 25 years old. At that very moment, their internal clock begins to tick away, and they have only one more year to live unless they can get more time. Time is the currency everyone lives by, they earn it and spend it and when it’s all gone they die; the rich can live forever while the poor live by the minute, literally.

Will and his mother Rachel (Olivia Wilde) live together in Dayton, which is considered to be a ghetto zone. Today is her 50^th birthday and as her birthday gift (TIME) he gave her 3 days. She needed every minute of it too because she owes more than half of it for bills (rent, electric, food, etc.) Most people here work very hard to earn more time, some people borrow from time-lenders (banks) or minute-men (loan sharks), while others fight (arm-wrestle) which is the riskiest way to gain time because the winner takes all. Will works in a factory with his best friend Borel (Johnny Galecki); they earn time by making capsules which are portable devices used to store and save unused time, much like a piggy-bank. He’s no super hero but he does go out of his way lending a hand to those in need!

Chaos breaks out when a wealthy aristocrat goes slumming in Dayton with a death wish and suddenly all the time in the world means nothing when every minute counts and Will is just one second too late. In despair, he takes us on a thrilling adventure into a higher class zone as he seeks vengeance for the pain and sufferings of the poverty sectors. While in the new zone, Will meets a rich businessman named Philippe Weis (Vincent Kartheiser) and his daughter Sylvia (Amanda Seyfried) during a high-stakes poker game. Sylvia invites Will to a party at her home where he ends up being accused of murder right before being stripped of all but 2 hours of his time. Without a minute to spare, he grabs Silvia and makes a fruitless attempt to regain some gifted time so he can afford to keep running from the timekeeper and minutemen who are trying to stop him from bringing down this corrupt system by spreading the wealth.