12:01 PM (1990)

A Masterpiece!

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Some TV and film you see stick in your mind. I watched 12.01 PM in the 80's on UK TV, and after talking about it years later with a friend realised that it'd not be too difficult to track it down.Simply put, I'd say this is the best thirty minute story I've ever seen on the telly. I managed to track it down, and watching it again in 2011 it's just as good as it was all those years ago.Kurtwood Smith is perfect and his performance is excellent. He manages to make the whole thing completely believable and terrifyingly sad. If you can get hold of a copy of 12.01PM, give it a try. As much as I love Groundhog Day, this is what it's all about.Ray Bradbury would be proud if this were his tale (apologies to Ray if he's done one like this, if he has it's not one I've read!). Masters of Sci-Fi could only have hoped to produce a film like this.

I first caught this film in the same way as many of the reviewers here, by catching it as a featured film in the ":30 Minute Movie" segments on Showtime, hosted by Rob Reiner, back in the early 90's. My wife and I were both instantly captivated by the story, which was later remade into a terrible feature-length film, and later modified to become "Groundhog Day." Kurtwood Smith was an inspired choice to play the main character, and the limitations of the 59-minute time frame made his frenzied efforts to escape his inescapable fate all the more terrifying. The ending, while old hat now (since it's been remade again and again), was fresh and shocking for it's time. You ached for Smith's character. The ending haunted me for a long time.This needs to be released as a special feature on an upcoming release of "Groundhog Day," or needs to be released in it's own right. What a fabulous piece of storytelling.T

Following the main character through his trials and investigations you really get a feeling of the horror and turmoil the simple every man is going through.I also came away from this film with the quote "Consciousness is an independent variable".Of the two 12:01 movies I consider this the more impressive. As other reviewers have mentioned the film focuses on a 59 minute loop, and shows that if you only have one hour to live over and over again then you can't achieve very much.If you've seen Groundhog day and seriously got into the time loop, wanting to know more about why the main character was stuck then this movie might appeal as you here some science.

This is a thirty minute film I saw years ago on Showtime. It was part of some kind of short film series hosted by Rob Reiner. This was the best of the three. It involved a man who is doomed to inhabit the same hour over and over. When we first see Myron Castleman he's standing in an intersection. He goes to the park to eat his lunch. He goes back to the office. Then Bam! He's standing in the intersection again. He tries to change things within the hour. But an hour isn't enough time; so he always ends up at that intersection. At some point he realizes that he may be able to do something. At this point everything takes on a frenzied urgency. Myron must race against the clock to find a way out. Kurtwood Smith plays Myron with so much depth and emotion. I can't imagine any one doing a better job. I'm glad I taped this; I've seen it several times. It is a haunting film; a minor classic.