Running time

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Movie
German title Running time
Original title Running time
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 70 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Josh Becker
script Josh Becker
Peter Choi
production Josh Becker
Jane Goe
music Joseph LoDuca
camera Kurt Rauf
cut Raymond Bertheaud
Kaye Davis
occupation

Running Time (alternate title: The Almost Perfect Heist ) is a 1997 American crime film directed by Josh Becker .

action

Carl was arrested and sentenced to 10 years in prison for covering his best friend Patrick.

After serving five years of his sentence in prison, Carl is released for good conduct. While in custody, he planned his last break-in with fellow inmate Buzz, a safe cracker who was released before him: he wants to steal a quarter of a million dollars in black money from the prison director. Patrick picks up Carl in front of the prison.

Patrick has found a prostitute for Carl to make amends, who turns out to be Carl's old school friend Janie after having sex. Before they take them down again, Carl Janie promises to contact her. Then Patrick and Carl pick up the rest of the accomplices: Donny, who is supposed to drive the escape vehicle, and Buzz. When Carl wants to discuss the plan with his accomplices due to the very tight time window, he discovers that Donny, hired by Patrick, is a drug addict and suffers from severe withdrawal symptoms. Then some things went wrong during the robbery. Due to Patrick's inadequate research, the safe turns out to be a more complicated model to crack for Buzz. Then the guard supposedly wants to flee and is shot by Patrick. At the last second, Buzz breaks into the safe. It turns out that only a fraction of the expected $ 250,000 was kept in the safe. They flee into the backyard and discover that Donny stole the vehicle and left the three crooks behind. While Carl confronts Patrick that he was the only one to blame for the whole mess, some police officers alerted by the shots appear. They shoot Buzz and wound Carl. Carl and Partick decide to split up and later meet up with Janie.

On the way to Janie, Carl almost passed out several times due to the pain and blood loss. In an alley he meets Donny, who has moved the escape vehicle for heroin and beats him violently. Always careful not to be recognized by the police, he finally reaches Janie's apartment. She cleans his wound and gives him fresh clothes. While waiting for Patrick, the two indulge in memories and decide to run away together. After a while, Patrick shows up and wants to speak to Carl alone, as he doesn't think it's a good idea to take Janie with him. Janie waits in her apartment for Carl to pick her up and packs a suitcase. But then she hears that Patrick and Carl are driving away and bursts into tears. After a while, Carl appears and tells him that they had to flee the backyard because some police officers were investigating it. He also gave Patrick the money and said goodbye to him forever. Carl asks Janie if she'd like to stay with a now triple loser. She says yes, and when asked if she doesn't want to pack some things, she replies while looking at Carl that she has everything she needs.

criticism

"The thematically conventional caper movie is stylistically out of the ordinary: The film shot in black and white gives the impression that it was shot largely in real time" and without cuts, which works surprisingly well (despite about 30 almost imperceptible cuts). "

- Lexicon of international film

backgrounds

Running Time was shot in black and white and laid out so that no cuts can be seen. With this stylistic device, which Alfred Hitchcock already used in the films Cocktail for a Corpse and The Lifeboat , the film appears like a continuous scene.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Running Time. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 

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