FeistyUpper
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Listonixio
Fresh and Exciting
Reptileenbu
Did you people see the same film I saw?
Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de)
"12:01 PM" is an American short film from over 25 years ago that runs for slightly under an hour. It was written by Jonathan Heap and is probably still his best-known work today because of the Oscar nomination it scored. And even if it did not win, then the topic similar to "Groundhog Day" stays in people's minds, especially as this one came out 3 years earlier and is thus even more original. We follow a man who has to live through the exact same hour of the day again and again and, unsurprisingly, quickly descends into insanity, even if a beautiful woman makes things look good for a while. It's certainly much darker than "Groundhog Day", but if you loved the Billy Murray film, this one here is certainly worth checking out. i thought it was a pretty solid watch, especially the first half if the film. Thumbs up.
Richard McLaughlin
This guy has shown up in so many things and perhaps best known from "That 70s Show", but if you ever saw 12:01 PM, you would have a new appreciation for his talent. This short is extremely well written about the frustrations of going through a time loop over and over for an endless eternity. In the process, he experiences so many things that we may take for granted. During one of his hours, he falls in love with a young lady in the park, then as his hours begins anew, she no longer knows him. During another hour, he helps needy person who others prefer to torment. Then during yet another, he sees a newspaper with an article that a scientist predicted this might happen. He calls him to discuss it, learns a little, then on the next loop he rushes to see him. When he finds that there is nothing he can do, he realizes there is no way out of his situation, so he wrestles a gun from a security guard and blows his own brains out only to find himself standing back on that same corner at the end of the hour as he has and always will. Kurtwood Smith delivers the pain and frustration like no one else could. This short made me a big fan of his. If you get a chance, watch this short! It's truly a 10.
simonstudios
This was a corker of a short SF film - highly intelligent writing, and loads better than Heap's full length remake a few years later - which had an unnecessary happy ending - and tons better than the (undeservedly) better known Groundhog Day.Last seen on Channel 4 in the UK about 12 years ago, and never commercially released, as far as I can tell ... if anyone's got this on video please get in touch - maybe we can trade. Cheers
FilmBear-4
I originally saw this dramatic short as an interstitial subject on TMC in the early '90s and fell instantly in love with it.The plot involves a mild-mannered businessman named Myron Castleman, played with exquisite pathos by Kurtwood Smith (That 70s Show). Myron is the only one who is aware that time keeps on bouncing back to 12:01PM after only an hour passes. Desperate to find an end to this, he seeks out a scientist who has predicted this phenomenon. Trying time and time again to contact him, Myron's worst fear is confirmed. It will never stop.Kurtwood Smith's portrayal of the temporally doomed Myron Castleman is one of the best of his career. Smith is probably better known to cinephiles as the heartless criminal Clarence Boddicker from the movie Robocop.
