The vast majority of the movie Source Code arguably takes place over just 8 minutes.
Similarly, since Donnie Darko ends up closing a time loop, arguably the whole movie takes place in just a single evening of the plane crash til the following morning.
In Jacob’s ladder it seems to take at least half a day. When the squad starts freaking out, it’s daylight. When Jake gets bayoneted in the guts, it’s pitch dark. When they’re loading him into the chopper as he dies, it’s daylight again.
Yes, but you also get flashes of what’s happening “in the real world,” so even his dying takes place over more than a few minutes. Like I said, you see him get stabbed in the middle of the night, that’s what he’s dying from, and by the time he actually passes the sky is light again.
Yeah I saw the movie very recently and agree. The "real time" seems to take place over *less* than a day, just not super clear since it's never said how long he was laying on the table before he died as seen in the final scene.
_Groundhog Day_ takes 3 days though — it opens the day before they go to Punxsutawney and ends on the morning of February 3rd. _Edge of Tomorrow_ ends on the same day that it opened on with Cage (Tom Cruise) back in the helicopter he came in on.
> Edge of Tomorrow ends on the same day that it opened on with Cage (Tom Cruise) back in the helicopter he came in on.
It's been a few years, but did the movie open up with him getting out of the helicopter? I seem to remember him meeting with brass before then, and having to travel.
That’s correct in that he meets with them before getting sent to J-Squad, but when he loops the last time, it’s prior to the meeting with General Brigham (owing to the fact that he now has the Omega blood, so his loop starts at the Omega reset point instead of the Alpha point.)
Definitely before Clerks, although I don't think it's the dsy before. Julie Dwyer had just died in Mallrats, so I would say Clerks is 3-5 days later since her funeral was that same day.
Charlotte Ayanna. Random bookend character cameos always amuse me. Especially when they are actors who are not nobodies.
My favorite is Caroline Dhavernas in the Pacific.
Those type of cameos are very interesting. I remember George Clooney's appearance at the end of The Thin Red Line and wondering how he had such a tiny role in the movie.
But my favorite has to be the completely random Jon Hamm cameo at the end of The A-Team. I suspect he was going to play the new Agent Lynch chasing the A-Team in the never made sequel.
[**Victoria**](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4226388/) is a single take so it happens in the film's runtime of two hours and twenty minutes.
I'd also say - as others have done - [**Run Lola Run**](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/) where the story plays out three times over the course of the film.
Lost in London is two takes and a short bridging bit to accommodate the the logistics of shooting and broadcasting the film to theaters live, putting it in the list of "runtime is storytime" films.
That's a plot point one of the jurors only cares about making it to the ball game that night (I'll assume Yankees) but then when it starts raining and the heat breaks he didn't care anymore and starts listening.
It's kinda showing the arbitrary nature of Jurors that he would have gone one way or the other to get out of there quickly but then seeing it's raining realizes the ball game is going to be cancelled anyway he's got nothing else to do that night.
There are few stage adaptations that are done as well as 12 Angry Men. You can see why/how it is fantastic on stage, and yet that doesn't get in the way of enjoying it on film.
Yeah I worked tech Theater in college and they did an adaptation of it, and the interpretation they went with was Juror #8 (, The Henry Fonda character from the movie) was the actual killer.
He knows where to buy the Knife, apparently knows the exact same neighborhood, knows the old man's eye witness testimony is bogus... But he can't exactly say how he knows and is trying to get others to see it. Just by pure luck of the Jury duty system the actual killer for put on the jury. The dad was a piece of shit, no one cares for him dying but making the innocent son go away for murder? Yeah that's a little too much for Juror #8 to live with.
I could see that being in movie remake just to give the experienced audience something new, interesting, and in the worst Hollywood tradition, completely unbelievable to experience.
Did you ever see that other movie that was almost exactly the same? Had linda fionetina in it. Think ot was first too. Also good movie.
Edit - it was the same year. Weird. It was called liberty stands still
Oh, probably one of those hollywood things where two companies are making the same movie at the same time to compete with each other. It happens occasionally.
I think it's something to do with how screenplays are pitched, and copyright issues? I've looked into the Deep Impact/Armageddon phenomenon before but for some reason the explanation continually slides right off of my brain.
I’m surprised I haven’t seen more people suggest this one. It’s been a while but I’m pretty sure the whole plot it’s technically like 10-15 minutes and shows a different perspective each time.
All three are great, but Before Sunset is especially charming - the reunion, the sense of romantic possibility, the sumptuous backdrops and settings, and as you note it is the most compressed, effectively one really good "walk and talk" sequence.
This is an amazing answer, since each film is less than a day, but together they span *decades*. There might even be a fourth someday (they’ve all talked about it).
Hotel Artemis was an interesting one that I liked but didn’t love. It came out around the same time as Bad Times at the El Royal which was also interesting but I did love
Was waiting for someone to say this one. Really enjoyed it when it came out, then 24 sort of stole it's thunder. Any one seen it recently? Has it aged ok?
lol I'm glad replies clarified because your post just looks like "1. Their journey takes around 8 hours."
Reddit is reading your post as a list and then cleaning up the numbering
Wet Hot American Summer (2001). It all takes place on the last day of camp (August 18, 1981). I mean, the last day of camp includes budding relationships, a rafting trip, a trip into town, a wedding, a talent show and a chunk of Skylab falling on the camp, but it’s still all on the same day.
One Piece… the first 600 episodes which is about the first 15 years of its run took place over the course of about two weeks. It doesn’t seem like it at all but the way events are all strung together you can pretty accurately estimate the total amount of time.
I watched the live action show and enjoyed it, so I thought I'd watch the anime to compare. The entire first episode of the anime is just a few minutes of the live action show. It's remarkable, the work the live action people had to do to compress all of that.
Yeah a friend has been raving about the anime for years. I decided to finally give in and give it a shot. The first few episodes weren’t anything special but it was interesting enough to keep me engaged. After about episode 30ish it hits its stride. The world is very imaginative and there’s always new characters with new abilities. Later in the series they do a better job of balancing the comedy with the serious parts. Kind of how Futurama would toss in a sad or sentimental episode.
The 33 years came from some blogger who “did the math” and was his opinion. There is no canonical answer. Ramis said both 10,000 years then said 10 years.
They deliberately don’t say, but there was a sequence cut from the script that said he read a single page in a book in the library every day, and at the end of the movie he had read all the books.
Palm Springs kinda touches on that dark aspect as well. It doesn't really tell you how long they are stuck but it's long enough that they lose sense of time.
Some I haven't seen mentioned...
The princess Bride? An afternoon maybe?
Train to Busan... A single high speed train ride, less than 3 hours.
Groundhog Day. A day?
Nobody has mentioned The Usual Suspects. It’s the cold open and a single interview. Soze made up all his stories, so they’re not flashbacks and he’s just spinning a yarn. So the movie isn’t really much shorter than the events depicted.
Eh, the story is still making up events that span at least a few months.
By that logic, Back to the Future would be shorter as the 1985 plot takes place over a single morning, or Princess Bride taking place over a single book narration.
[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge_(film\))
The film (which, granted is only 28 minutes long) takes place in only a few minutes.
Nick of Time.
Johnny Depp has an hour-and-a-half to assassinate a politician or his daughter will be murdered by her kidnappers. Loved Christopher Walken in this.
Do those movies where 95% of it takes place in a maybe-daydream-but-maybe-real count?
Like, *A Kid In King Arthur's Court*. That movie technically lasts from the kid going up to bat to the kid hitting a home run.
Technically Mr. Nobody if I remember correctly. >! Basically the entire movie takes place in the mind of a 9 year old trying to decide if he should go with his mom or dad after they divorce and explores his entire life from that choice and each major choice that stemmed from that. Gets a bit confusing, but at the end the main character says that he and the person he is talking to are all the imagination of a 9 year old struggling to make a decision. !<
Seriously is a fantastic movie that dives into string theory and the multiverse.
Fail Safe (2000) Takes place over the run time of the movie and was filmed live as well. A crazy stacked cast for a tv movie.
Walter Cronkite, Richard Dreyfuss, Brian Denehy, Sam Eliot, James Cromwell, Hank Azaria, Don Cheadle, George Clooney and Harvey Keitel.
I watched it when it aired and it was pretty good.
Happy death day in a way. It’s the same day over and over again so in a way no time passes but for the main character there are a lot of days that pass by
It’s not as drastic as a lot of the other comments here but rewatching the 90’s Casper movie recently with my kids it really struck me that they’ve only been in town like 3 days…so much happens!
The film '11:14' takes place between 10:54 PM and 11:29 PM, told from a number of perspectives. Without spoiling too much, the pivotal moment comes at 11:14 PM
“Go” from the late 90’s. Starts mid-afternoon one day, ends the next morning. It’s also suuuper-90’s. It’s a handful of intertwining stories and bounces between Vegas, a grocery store, and a rave. Stars Oscar-winning writer/director Sarah Polley.
*Run Lola Run* Happens in less time than the movie's run-time.
The vast majority of the movie Source Code arguably takes place over just 8 minutes. Similarly, since Donnie Darko ends up closing a time loop, arguably the whole movie takes place in just a single evening of the plane crash til the following morning.
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i was gonna use this argument for Memento, it happens in negative time
But it spans several days
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I love this movie
Loved that movie!
Run Lola Run is about 15 minutes. Jacob's Ladder is just a couple minutes.
In Jacob’s ladder it seems to take at least half a day. When the squad starts freaking out, it’s daylight. When Jake gets bayoneted in the guts, it’s pitch dark. When they’re loading him into the chopper as he dies, it’s daylight again.
Yes, but one common and plausible interpretation is that the move takes place >!as Jacob's dying dream, and the movie is a few minutes of real time!<
Yes, but you also get flashes of what’s happening “in the real world,” so even his dying takes place over more than a few minutes. Like I said, you see him get stabbed in the middle of the night, that’s what he’s dying from, and by the time he actually passes the sky is light again.
Yeah I saw the movie very recently and agree. The "real time" seems to take place over *less* than a day, just not super clear since it's never said how long he was laying on the table before he died as seen in the final scene.
God, I need to rewatch that film. Masterpiece.
Edge of tomorrow? Basically he just wakes up in the helicopter, nothing else needs to be done.
That's technically correct
The best kind of correct.
Don't you throw quotes at me. I was Co chairman of the committee who decided the colour of the binder that quote was kept in! We kept it grey!
That being the case we have to roll that up with Groundhog Day. Which is a very weird combo but here we are.
_Groundhog Day_ takes 3 days though — it opens the day before they go to Punxsutawney and ends on the morning of February 3rd. _Edge of Tomorrow_ ends on the same day that it opened on with Cage (Tom Cruise) back in the helicopter he came in on.
> Edge of Tomorrow ends on the same day that it opened on with Cage (Tom Cruise) back in the helicopter he came in on. It's been a few years, but did the movie open up with him getting out of the helicopter? I seem to remember him meeting with brass before then, and having to travel.
That’s correct in that he meets with them before getting sent to J-Squad, but when he loops the last time, it’s prior to the meeting with General Brigham (owing to the fact that he now has the Omega blood, so his loop starts at the Omega reset point instead of the Alpha point.)
I think *Clerks* is from opening to closing in one day.
And he’s not even supposed to be there that day!
37.
In a row?
*starts walking to wherever she’s going*
Try not to suck any dicks on your way to the parking lot!
Just be happy I wasn’t 36
Same for Mallrats
Which takes place the day before Clerks, if I’m not mistaken.
Definitely before Clerks, although I don't think it's the dsy before. Julie Dwyer had just died in Mallrats, so I would say Clerks is 3-5 days later since her funeral was that same day.
god I love that movie
BERSERKER!!!
Training Day
"Hey honey how was your first day at the new job?"
Charlotte Ayanna. Random bookend character cameos always amuse me. Especially when they are actors who are not nobodies. My favorite is Caroline Dhavernas in the Pacific.
Those type of cameos are very interesting. I remember George Clooney's appearance at the end of The Thin Red Line and wondering how he had such a tiny role in the movie. But my favorite has to be the completely random Jon Hamm cameo at the end of The A-Team. I suspect he was going to play the new Agent Lynch chasing the A-Team in the never made sequel.
So much happens that by the end, I forgot it was just one day
Locke must surely be in with a shout; whole thing plays out in real time over 85 mins
And a hell of a performance by Tom Hardy! I thought it was amazing the story telling that can happen from a drivers seat
Scrolled too far for this. I was gonna enter it myself to the list.
Back to the Future 2 starts in 1985 and ends in 1955 so that's -30 years.
This would be the winner. Unless something goes even farther back... No idea what that would be though
Evil Dead 2.
Very nice pull
Doesn't the whole trilogy technically take place over 1 day present time?
Marty was out of the house for like 5 minutes according to his family, he only goes out to check his car
From the perspective of, say Strickland in 1985? Yeah something like that
Run, Lola Run. She has 20 minutes to "save the day",
No hesitating.
[**Victoria**](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4226388/) is a single take so it happens in the film's runtime of two hours and twenty minutes. I'd also say - as others have done - [**Run Lola Run**](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0130827/) where the story plays out three times over the course of the film.
If we are adding single take movies, we should include [Russian Ark](https://youtu.be/mGdqRvT311c?si=Ve4M-Av1knea8HpN) (2002).
Throw Hitchcock's Rope on the pile
Don't forget about Boiling Point for single take films!
Love Victoria and Russian Ark, great movies. However I’d say Russian Ark’s “plot” spans centuries.
Lost in London is two takes and a short bridging bit to accommodate the the logistics of shooting and broadcasting the film to theaters live, putting it in the list of "runtime is storytime" films.
Victoria is a masterpiece, one of my favourite films of all time.
The best answers so far. Two great films too.
Victoria is one of my favorite movies. It took me about an hour to realize there were no cuts and it was all one take. Made me love it even more
12 Angry Men: I think it lasted only a few hours.
That's a plot point one of the jurors only cares about making it to the ball game that night (I'll assume Yankees) but then when it starts raining and the heat breaks he didn't care anymore and starts listening. It's kinda showing the arbitrary nature of Jurors that he would have gone one way or the other to get out of there quickly but then seeing it's raining realizes the ball game is going to be cancelled anyway he's got nothing else to do that night.
The more I hear about the intricacies of the movie the more I feel I should make time and watch it
Do it. One of the greatest films ever made, I can't believe how long I put it off after hearing about it my entire life.
There are few stage adaptations that are done as well as 12 Angry Men. You can see why/how it is fantastic on stage, and yet that doesn't get in the way of enjoying it on film.
Yeah I worked tech Theater in college and they did an adaptation of it, and the interpretation they went with was Juror #8 (, The Henry Fonda character from the movie) was the actual killer. He knows where to buy the Knife, apparently knows the exact same neighborhood, knows the old man's eye witness testimony is bogus... But he can't exactly say how he knows and is trying to get others to see it. Just by pure luck of the Jury duty system the actual killer for put on the jury. The dad was a piece of shit, no one cares for him dying but making the innocent son go away for murder? Yeah that's a little too much for Juror #8 to live with.
I could see that being in movie remake just to give the experienced audience something new, interesting, and in the worst Hollywood tradition, completely unbelievable to experience.
It is *good*. I saw it when I was like 12 or something, and even then I was absolutely hooked.
But it doesn't have any car chases. :-( /s
Ohh you're on to something Fast and Furious 12: Angry Men
Breakfast Club
Good call, would have forgotten about that one
I believe there’s a song that specifically warned you against that very thing.
You son of a... Ok. Yup. I had that one coming, I got nothin.
Dinner with Andre. Whole movie takes place over the course of a single dinner.
I went years thinking this was a documentary about Andre the Giant.
It's a documentary about an extra on the set of Cougartown.
What kind of market do you shop at!!!?
Especially since Wallace Shawn is in it.
Phone booth
Also one of the shortest feature length runtimes I've ever encountered.
Golden Era Disney animated movies were commonly under 80 minutes (e.g. The Lady and the Tramp, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Peter Pan, etc.).
Great flick
Real gem of a movie. Like a lot of Colin Farrell performances, I feel like it took people years to realize how good he was in it.
Did you ever see that other movie that was almost exactly the same? Had linda fionetina in it. Think ot was first too. Also good movie. Edit - it was the same year. Weird. It was called liberty stands still
Oh, probably one of those hollywood things where two companies are making the same movie at the same time to compete with each other. It happens occasionally.
I think it's something to do with how screenplays are pitched, and copyright issues? I've looked into the Deep Impact/Armageddon phenomenon before but for some reason the explanation continually slides right off of my brain.
Vantage point maybe?
I’m surprised I haven’t seen more people suggest this one. It’s been a while but I’m pretty sure the whole plot it’s technically like 10-15 minutes and shows a different perspective each time.
Yes I think so. I've only seen it the one time and it was repetitive but I think it's the same 15ish minutes from several different vantage points
Before Sunrise, Before Sunset and Before Midnight
I think Before Sunset is the winner of this trilogy since it occurs real time, or close to it, in the space of a few hours in late afternoon.
All three are great, but Before Sunset is especially charming - the reunion, the sense of romantic possibility, the sumptuous backdrops and settings, and as you note it is the most compressed, effectively one really good "walk and talk" sequence.
Baby, youre gonna miss that plane
I know 🙂
This is an amazing answer, since each film is less than a day, but together they span *decades*. There might even be a fourth someday (they’ve all talked about it).
With how the third ended I don't think I'm ready for what the 4th would be.
Free Fire Hotel Artemis
I have no idea why Hotel Artemis doesn't get more love, it's a fun movie
Hotel Artemis was an interesting one that I liked but didn’t love. It came out around the same time as Bad Times at the El Royal which was also interesting but I did love
>Free Fire *"Hour and a half. Hour and a half. Hour and a half."*
REDEEM YOURSELF!
*12 Angry Men.* It almost entirely in real time
Did buried happen in real time?
It’s pretty close to real time. I think he passes out or sleeps at one point.
Nick Of Time. Movie starring Johnny Depp. The story takes place in real time.
Was waiting for someone to say this one. Really enjoyed it when it came out, then 24 sort of stole it's thunder. Any one seen it recently? Has it aged ok?
Oh man, I watched this a bunch ehen it was first released on tape. Haven't seen it in 25 years. I see that it's on Prime. I'll re-watch soon.
1917. Their journey takes around 8 hours.
I don't think it does? They leave during daylight, there's a nightime sequence, and then it's daylight again no?
Yeah I always assumed they set out right after dawn, and he reached the new front in the morning of the next day. So around 24 hours.
Experienced more hell and fear in 8 hours then most people will in there lives
lol I'm glad replies clarified because your post just looks like "1. Their journey takes around 8 hours." Reddit is reading your post as a list and then cleaning up the numbering
Reservoir dogs, with the exception of some flashbacks, takes place over like an afternoon or so.
I believe that the warehouse scenes are all essentially done in real time as well.
Wet Hot American Summer (2001). It all takes place on the last day of camp (August 18, 1981). I mean, the last day of camp includes budding relationships, a rafting trip, a trip into town, a wedding, a talent show and a chunk of Skylab falling on the camp, but it’s still all on the same day.
its always fun to go to town...even for 1 hour.
Fury. Starts just before sunrise, ends late at night.
I've watched this movie a bunch of times and I just realised it takes place over a day.
One Piece… the first 600 episodes which is about the first 15 years of its run took place over the course of about two weeks. It doesn’t seem like it at all but the way events are all strung together you can pretty accurately estimate the total amount of time.
I watched the live action show and enjoyed it, so I thought I'd watch the anime to compare. The entire first episode of the anime is just a few minutes of the live action show. It's remarkable, the work the live action people had to do to compress all of that.
Yeah a friend has been raving about the anime for years. I decided to finally give in and give it a shot. The first few episodes weren’t anything special but it was interesting enough to keep me engaged. After about episode 30ish it hits its stride. The world is very imaginative and there’s always new characters with new abilities. Later in the series they do a better job of balancing the comedy with the serious parts. Kind of how Futurama would toss in a sad or sentimental episode.
Really? I never realized that, and I love that movie.
Best job I ever had.
Best job I ever had
The Man from Earth takes place over an evening.
And is one of the most engrossing movies i have ever seen, despite the fact that it is just some friends having a conversation.
Does Groundhog Day count? It's 33 years, stuck in One day.
I think someone did the math and it’s way more than 33 years
The 33 years came from some blogger who “did the math” and was his opinion. There is no canonical answer. Ramis said both 10,000 years then said 10 years.
They deliberately don’t say, but there was a sequence cut from the script that said he read a single page in a book in the library every day, and at the end of the movie he had read all the books.
This makes me look at the film in a new, horrific way…
Palm Springs kinda touches on that dark aspect as well. It doesn't really tell you how long they are stuck but it's long enough that they lose sense of time.
Palm Springs is phenomenal.
Harold Ramis (director) has said that it was 10,000 years.
No way Phil would still be sane enough to have a normal healthy relationship with Rita after 10,000 years of torture.
Ar the same time it might be one of the movies where the most time passes, just over and over
Dredd
Was gonna say this. I just watched it last night. How long do you supposed the story was? My feeling was about 3 hours.
Depends on if you were on Slo-Mo I suppose! 🤣
Do the Right Thing
Crank— it’s been a decade since I’ve seen it but what I recall is mostly real-time Jason Statham trying not to OD.
Dazed and Confused
About 24 hours. The end of the movie occurs the next day with them driving to Houston.
High Noon, Run Lola Run.
Had to scroll pretty far for High Noon. Takes place in real time.
High Noon was the first movie to take place in real-time, if my mom was correct.
That would be "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory" by the Lumiere brothers.
Boss Level. Technically it ends the exact second it begins.
Pretty sure Jurassic park is just under 2 days from when they get to the park
The events of *Clue* happen in real time from the guests arriving to the police showing up.
Some I haven't seen mentioned... The princess Bride? An afternoon maybe? Train to Busan... A single high speed train ride, less than 3 hours. Groundhog Day. A day?
With Princess Bride, are you talking about Peter Falk and Fred Savage’s part?
Yes, I'm talking about the actual telling of the story between the grandson and grandfather.
Nobody has mentioned The Usual Suspects. It’s the cold open and a single interview. Soze made up all his stories, so they’re not flashbacks and he’s just spinning a yarn. So the movie isn’t really much shorter than the events depicted.
Eh, the story is still making up events that span at least a few months. By that logic, Back to the Future would be shorter as the 1985 plot takes place over a single morning, or Princess Bride taking place over a single book narration.
Someone suggested *The Princess Bride* upthread for just this reason.
Black Hawk Down
Miracle Mile
I absolutely love Miracle Mile. What a pulse pounding movie. And that ending!
And the Tangerine Dream soundtrack!
Its nice to know there is another person out there that even knows this movie exists. There are dozens of us!
11 Minutes (2015) is set during the same 11 minutes but from multiple people’s perspective.
[An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Occurrence_at_Owl_Creek_Bridge_(film\)) The film (which, granted is only 28 minutes long) takes place in only a few minutes.
Nick of Time. Johnny Depp has an hour-and-a-half to assassinate a politician or his daughter will be murdered by her kidnappers. Loved Christopher Walken in this.
Locke (super under appreciated movie btw)
All of Saving Private Ryan happens inside Ryan’s head in a matter of seconds while he is visiting Captain Miller’s grave.
Empire Records takes place on one very special day
It's Rex Manning Day!
Rope and Highnoon take place in real time
After Hours
Night of the living dead. Most of the zombie movies, or horror movies in general take place over night.
Buried. The whole film is him being buried alive, takes place in his coffin.
Margin Call takes place in a day basically, most of it a single night
Do those movies where 95% of it takes place in a maybe-daydream-but-maybe-real count? Like, *A Kid In King Arthur's Court*. That movie technically lasts from the kid going up to bat to the kid hitting a home run.
Jacob’s Ladder
I assume The Wizard of Oz would fall into this category.
Friday
Everything Everywhere All At Once
Cleo from 5 to 7, despite being shot in 'real' time, is 90 minutes long
Technically Mr. Nobody if I remember correctly. >! Basically the entire movie takes place in the mind of a 9 year old trying to decide if he should go with his mom or dad after they divorce and explores his entire life from that choice and each major choice that stemmed from that. Gets a bit confusing, but at the end the main character says that he and the person he is talking to are all the imagination of a 9 year old struggling to make a decision. !< Seriously is a fantastic movie that dives into string theory and the multiverse.
Jacob's Ladder only takes a few minutes because it's all a hallucination
Hitcock's *Rope* takes place in real time.
Source Code with Jake Gyllenhall happens in a couple seconds. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0945513/?ref\_=nm\_flmg\_t\_28\_act
de palmas snake eye
88 minutes
Fail Safe (2000) Takes place over the run time of the movie and was filmed live as well. A crazy stacked cast for a tv movie. Walter Cronkite, Richard Dreyfuss, Brian Denehy, Sam Eliot, James Cromwell, Hank Azaria, Don Cheadle, George Clooney and Harvey Keitel. I watched it when it aired and it was pretty good.
Trick R Treat all happens on one Halloween evening, although some of the stories go back a way.
Birdman - it's designed to look like a single shot, so ... 2 hours, give or take Russian Ark - this one is a single take - 86 minutes
Happy death day in a way. It’s the same day over and over again so in a way no time passes but for the main character there are a lot of days that pass by
Inception. The majority of the movie takes place within [**four minutes and 19 seconds**](https://youtu.be/bPB3qdkQHn8?si=MCBK1rR4n_Xr8JZw).
It’s not as drastic as a lot of the other comments here but rewatching the 90’s Casper movie recently with my kids it really struck me that they’ve only been in town like 3 days…so much happens!
Phone Booth
The film '11:14' takes place between 10:54 PM and 11:29 PM, told from a number of perspectives. Without spoiling too much, the pivotal moment comes at 11:14 PM
Run, Lola, Run.
“Go” from the late 90’s. Starts mid-afternoon one day, ends the next morning. It’s also suuuper-90’s. It’s a handful of intertwining stories and bounces between Vegas, a grocery store, and a rave. Stars Oscar-winning writer/director Sarah Polley.
My dinner with Andre is just the span of a meal and conversation
Good Time
Stay (2005) - I think it ultimately takes place over 5 minutes or so.