

While hiding, Hamilton reveals to Will that the people of New Greenwich hoard most of the time while constantly increasing prices to keep poorer people dying. One night, he rescues a drunken man named Henry Hamilton from time thieves Fortis and his gang the Minutemen. Will Salas is a factory worker who lives in Dayton with his mother Rachel. The richest area is New Greenwich, where people are wealthy enough to be effectively immortal. The country is divided into areas called Time Zones Dayton is the poorest, a ghetto where people rarely have over 24 hours on their clocks. Time has become the universal currency, transferred directly between people or stored in capsules. Everyone has a timer on their forearm that shows their remaining time, when it reaches zero the person "times out" and dies instantly. In 2169, people are genetically engineered to stop aging on their 25th birthday.

The film was released on October 28, 2011. Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Johnny Galecki, and Alex Pettyfer also star. Amanda Seyfried and Justin Timberlake star as inhabitants of a society which uses time from one's lifespan as its primary currency, with each individual possessing a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live. In Time is a 2011 American science fiction action film written, directed and produced by Andrew Niccol.
