12:01 pm
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 12:01 pm |
| Original title | 12:01 pm |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jack Sholder |
| script | Philip Morton |
| production |
Robert John Degus , Jonathan Heap , Cindy Hornickel |
| music | Peter Rodgers Melnick |
| camera | Anghel Decca |
| cut | Michael N. Knue |
| occupation | |
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12:01 is an American science fiction film from the year 1993 with Jonathan Silverman and Helen Slater in the lead roles. It is an adaptation of Richard Lupoff's short story 12:01 PM that was published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction in December 1973 . The film opened in German cinemas on December 16, 1993.
action
Barry Thomas is a simple employee of UTREL Corporation , a high-tech corporation, and does repetitive work in the human resources department. Dr. Moxley, on the other hand, is working as a scientific director on a risky project, the construction of a super accelerator that is supposed to accelerate atomic particles faster than light. This is supposed to produce a lot more and much cheaper energy than with conventional methods. Since this project can also have the risk of time repetition, the government stopped the project shortly before the super accelerator should be activated.
Barry's secret love and colleague Dr. Lisa Fredericks is working on the project. She was assassinated shortly after the project stopped, and Barry witnessed the murder. The next morning, Barry wakes up to find that the day repeats itself. The behavior of those around him is identical, and Lisa is also alive. Barry later finds out that an electric shock he was electrocuted at exactly 12:01 p.m. was responsible for his reliving the same day over and over and being the only one who can remember it.
He also finds out that the whole thing is not a coincidence, but a time event that Dr. Moxley caused when he illegally started the super accelerator at exactly this point in time, in the hope of being able to continue with the project in this way, because he did not believe in the risk of a time repetition and wanted to reap fame and profit from the project. Additionally, he finds out that Moxley had Lisa murdered because she stood in the way of his intentions. Since Barry was electrocuted the moment Moxley started the super accelerator, he was pushed out of the time warp and can therefore see what is going on. The world, on the other hand, is trapped in this time loop because it cannot notice what is going on because of the time loop.
Barry is now doing everything to thwart the attempted murder on Lisa in the time warp and with her help to prevent the experiment, which would also mean the end of the time leap. Finally, after five repetitions of the same day, he also succeeds in preventing the attempted murder on Lisa, explaining to Lisa what is going on and with her help to thwart Moxley's plans, where he has to kill Moxley in self-defense to stop him from acting . In the course of time, Barry and Lisa discover that they like each other very much, fall passionately in love, and it is implied that they will get married after the facts have been cleared up to the authorities.
reception
Originally a television production, the film ran in Germany without any significant success in the cinema. It was published just a few months after the thematically similar film comedy And Groundhog Day by Harold Ramis . Richard Lupoff commented on this feature film as follows: The story was stolen and made into a full-length film. Jonathan Heap and I were beside ourselves and wanted to take action against the crooks who had robbed us. But the Hollywood establishment closed the ranks. We weren't Art Buchwald . After half a year of legal conferences and great emotional stress, we decided to leave it behind and get on with our lives.
The film is a remake of the Oscar- nominated short 12:01 PM .
synchronization
The dubbing took place at Legard Synchron in Berlin under the dubbing direction of Matthias Müntefering .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Barry Thomas | Jonathan Silverman | Michael Nowka |
| Lisa Fredericks | Helen Slater | Claudia Lehmann |
| Dr. Thadius Moxley | Martin Landau | Friedrich W. Building School |
| Robert Denk | Nicolas Surovy | Helmut Gauss |
| Anne Jackson | Robin Bartlett | Heike Schroetter |
| Howard Richter | Jeremy Piven | Michael Walke |
| Detective Cryers | Glenn Morshower | Stefan Fredrich |
| Jack Spays | Mark Christopher Lawrence | Frank-Otto Schenk |
| Dr, Tiberius Scott | Paxton Whitehead | Eric Vaessen |
criticism
“A conventionally staged television game that seems out of place on the big screen. The original basic idea is largely given away by the mindless direction. "
"An exciting kind of déjà vu experience"
Awards
- Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 1994 - Pegasus Audience Awardfor Jack Sholder
- Edgar Allan Poe Award 1994 - Nomination for Best Screenplay for a TV Movie or Miniseries for Philip Morton
- Gérardmer Film Festival 1994 - Grand Prize in the Video category for Jack Sholder
Publications
The film was released on DVD by MCP Sound & Media in April 2002 (approx. 90 minutes, image format 1.33: 1, audio format stereo German). An English edition of Image Entertainment followed in November 2006 (approx. 92 minutes, image format 1.85: 1, audio formats Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 stereo English), enhanced by an audio commentary by director Jack Sholder.
Web links
- 12:01 in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- 12:01 p.m. in the online film database
- 12:01 at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ 12:01 PM (1990) Awards . In: IMDb . Retrieved February 21, 2008.
- ^ SF Recollections by Richard Lupoff . In: Timebinders . Archived from the original on November 15, 2007. Retrieved December 3, 2007.
- ↑ 12:01 p.m. (1993) (TV) - References to other titles. (No longer available online.) IMDb.com, formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 14, 2011 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | 12:01 pm. Retrieved September 13, 2017 .
- ↑ 12:01 pm. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ 12:01 pm. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ 12:01 a.m. TV movie . Retrieved March 12, 2018.
