12:01 PM
- by Stephen Tolkin and Jonathan Heap, directed by Jonathan Heap
- Short Film
- Weird Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- 12:01 P.M. by Stephen Tolkin and Jonathan Heap, directed by Jonathan Heap (Showtime, USA, 19 August 1990).
Kurtwood Smith portrays Myron Castleman’s noon hour over and over in this first movie adaptation of Richard Lupoff’s short story.
—Michael Main
You see, it’s like . . . it’s like we’re stuck. You know, like a . . . like a needle on a scratched record. It all starts at 12:01, and everything goes along fine until one o’clock and then Bam! the whole world snaps back to 12:01 again.
Variants
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- 12:01 P.M. by Stephen Tolkin and Jonathan Heap, directed by Jonathan Heap (Showtime, USA, 19 August 1990).
Richard A. Lupoff (based on a work by)
Previous Works
based on “12:01 PM” by Richard A. Lupoff (1973)
Indexer Notes
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- The Showtime release information is from The Washington Post. The film may have had prior showings in festivals.