Might I ask what the fuck you’ve been smoking? Since when have there been US bombers flying towards Russian airspace in Hallowe’en?
Since whenever Halloween became Dr. Strangelove, I guess. Looks like he got confused as to which movie you were talking about.
Before Sunrise isn’t realtime, but takes place over the course of an afternoon and night and ends…well, when the title suggests. I didn’t see the recent sequel, Before Sunset, but I believe it follows a similar structure.
I haven’t seen Dazed and Confused either, but doesn’t it all take place on the last day of school?
A movie I have seen is Groundhog’s Day, which except for the beginning takes place in the course of one day. It’s just a day that happens over and over again…
Technically speaking that day lasts several years, mind you.
I haven’t seen The 25th Hour, but from a plot description it would seem to occur over the course of one day. From Dusk Till Dawn occurs within a single 24-hour period and mostly over one night, ditto Black Christmas.
Has anyone mentioned Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind yet? That’s another one-day job.
There are some cheesy action flicks that take place on a pretty tight timeline:
Air Force One and Con Air come to mind.
Die Hard.
Dog Day Afternoon.
Run Lola Run takes place in a very short period of time.
I believe you’re wrong there. ESotSM took place over a good portion of time, and involves a massive amount of flashbacks that take place over the span of decades. The real-time range is also longer than a day.
The entire mindwipe, which comprises 90% of the movie, is performed in a single night.
Yes, but what about the other 10%?
He asks to be fitted in for a wipe without the normal delay and the ending happens on the morning after he wakes up. So all in all, the whole film stretches over maybe 30 hours of time.
My understanding of this movie is that it represents 200+ years of history and not the events of one night. This site seems to support my claim.
I should say that I have not seen it myself, but it is on my PDR (in HD no less 
) waiting for me to have the time to watch it.
That’s not how I remember it. 
IIRC, American Graffiti takes place over a single weekend.
Yeah, Eternal Sunshine doesn’t count. The memories may not be flashbacks, but they definitely would count as flashbacks for our purposes.
Memento takes place in two or three days.
Since you added an apostrophe to it.
It begins as school is ending (3:30ish) and ends the following morning (7:30ish).
Which, in turn, has served to remind me of 3 O’clock High, which I sadly watched all of in a hotel room the other evening.
There’s supposed to be an apostrophe in Hallowe’en. If there isn’t one in the title of the film, this is not my problem.
Arsenic and Old Lace takes place pretty much in real time.
“Oh, Dr. Einstein, are you leaving?”
“Yes, please.”
“We put flowers on the graves every Sunday.”
“Sure, I put neon lights on mine!”
“I wonder what Mary’s doing now.”
“I’m the son of a sea-cook!”
I love that movie.
I would say Identity with John Cusack except for that darn bit at the end.
A lot of horror movies that involve being trapped in a building would probably fit the category like Resident Evil and House on Haunted Hill
Night of the Living Dead :rolleyes:
That said, how much time passed in the original Dawn of the Dead? (Which, unfortunately, I’ve yet to see.) I think they spent at least one night in the mall in the remake. How much time passed in Day of the Dead? What about the other branch of Living Dead sequels?
Seriously though, I think we’ll find tons of one-day films. If we wanted to make a somewhat manageable list, I think we should stick to true real-time films like Phonebooth with Colin Farrell. (Run Lola Run is debatable unless you think of it as three different films, IMO.)
Anyhoo…