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The one thing we can either spend or squander but can never buy back is time. When we were young, it's something that what we once thought was an inexhaustible well. In youth, we live in the moment of ambition or idleness, caution or recklessness--so self-absorbed that the small things we neglect are always put off and attend to them tomorrow. The small things manifest over time, and when that tomorrow comes and it's time to attend to them, you are old, and you realise that the small trivial things once thought of as inconsequential have amassed into a large and wonderful piece of your life...which you've missed.

This is the dilemma of Dante: an ambitious, self-absorbed workaholic that has deluded himself into thinking that all will be well for the future if he works tirelessly in the present. He is the absentee boyfriend of Alice: an affectionate soul and aspiring artist who absolutely adores Dante. She makes him a morning birthday pancake and later throws him a 40th birthday party, to which Dante almost ruins by arriving late.

The following morning, Alice is in the kitchen, making Dante a special pancake for his 41st birthday. Alice is nauseous from morning sickness. By the time he adds up the clues and realises he's lost an entire year, he's wished a happy 42nd birthday, and is asked to tend to his infant daughter. At any given moment, Dante can turn a corner and another year is lost. Not being able to catch up with new technology or slow down for the most important people in his life, he is on an accelerated trajectory of his future which is quickly becoming his present, and even quicker, becoming his past.

There have been many movies which use this concept in one way or another. Though this movie is indeed solid, it lacked a certain panic or sense of urgency. Dante was being told about what changes have transpired between his time-jumps, yet never discovered them for himself. It scratched the surface of what he and other characters were feeling, but never really dug deep into the heart of what they truly needed. It would have raised the stakes for Dante, and ratcheted up the drama a few notches.

The film overall is a thought-provoking tale which makes one ponder and reflect on their own life, and how we spend and share our time. Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow may never come. All we have is now.

If you love Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow, then you would realize that this is like the reverse concept, which is quite cool. Instead of reliving his life, he was fast forwarding his life and living the exact day of his birthday, only a year ahead.

The thing i really didn't get is why he never bothered telling his wife and best friend about what he was going through. He never even made an attempt, which is incredibly unbelievable and frustrating! Could it be that it's fast forwarding too fast that he can't even talk about it? Maybe for some scenes, yes, but in other birthdays it seems he had the time to explain to Alice what was happening.

Anyway, it ended quite well, similar to how the loop ended in Groundhog Day - that he just needed to learn his lesson. Just sucks though that he lost that many years!

Still Time has Dante time travel a year on his birthday and he has no control over it nor does he have any on his changing life. I was on board with the initial time jump but it soon became repetitive as like Dante even me as an audience had to just accept the changes in Dante's life and before he could even try to accept his predicament, he would've time travelled an year already.

The point the movie is trying to make is evident till it pushes it till the final act while the supposed scenes involving Alice and his daughter, or the separation from Alice to even an affair with the secretary make least impact. Then there is the sub plot involving the ailing father. The script really tries hard. The premise is not unique but still intriguing yet the movie as a whole didn't really work for me.

Good advice, I think.

The film doesn't really make much attempt to explain the hows and whys of the time-travelling. My guess is that we're supposed to infer that it's due to his workaholic nature and his dismissiveness towards his family. How this results in time-travelling I've no idea though.

The film skips along through the yeras in a confusing fashion as well. I at first thought it was when he went to sleep ... but then it started happening in any split second.

I also didn't understand why he never tried to explain what was happening to the person who mattered most.

The film had it's funny moments but not quite enough to be a dramedy.

51/100.

Started as a comedy but than turned into an emotional touching movie. As the roller coaster in the movie, the vary of emotions I felt was exactly like it. Every year that passed by I thought that the plot will go to another way, but in the end I think that the thing that should have happened really happened.

During the entire movie I thought about my family and my wife and children, whether I give them the attention they need and whether I spend enough time with them.

I think that this movie forces you to look deep down into your heart and realize what are the things that really matter in life.

His father lives in the PAST (due to Alzheimer's). His alter-ego lives in the FUTURE due to being a workaholic meeting deadlines. He is cursed with missing a full year of his life due to time travel which is beyond his control.

Until he finally makes the RIGHT DECISION to live in the PRESENT by taking a 96 day vacation from work to spend time with his family was the curse of time travel finally lifted!

A VERY UNUSUAL film that explores the NOW. We can only live our life in the NOW. Not in the PAST which gives us regret and remorse. Not in the FUTURE which gives us anxiety and worry. NOW is a gift of life. We know this because NOW is called "the present" -- "the gift". Only when we're in the moment can we truly ENJOY LIFE!

Such a simple lesson. Such a profound lesson. Thank you for this WONDERFUL FILM!!!!

Yes, this movie is based in the tired cliché of workaholic man somethingsomethingsomething. But this slow-paced romantic comedy, which admittedly isn't very comedic after the first half hour, is a refreshingly bittersweet look at what happens when we're so focused on the other stuff (in this case, his office job) that the main character misses the most important things in his life. Perhaps the part that hits home the most is that this guy isn't inherently a jerk - maybe he thinks he's doing the right things, maybe he just doesn't realize he's doing the wrong things, and we keep waiting for the moment when he wakes up and makes amends. We see the attempts, always too little too late. We see a man grasping with why the heck can't he seem to get a grip on what's going on in his life, and through his conversations we get little snippets of what is actually going on those other 364 days a year. Whether the "time traveling" is real or metaphorical is at the discretion of the viewer, and what I can say is that this movie is about the journey, not the destination. It's a journey I would highly recommend to anybody who is a human.

A beautiful movie that starts as a comedy and keeps getting more real with time. Well that's the central theme of the movie - time. A workaholic man, who is desperately seeking time jumps 1 year into the future every hour. 1 hour is one year, and he doesn't remember a thing that happened in the past year. The world around him keeps changing, and he can't do anything to 'undo' the permanent changes his life keeps going through.

Reminds you of that English movie that they based the Siddharth Malhotra - Katrina Kaif starrer on, but this is so real and authentic.

It is one of those chance movies you find on OTT that make you reflect upon life.

It's a small movie with a big heart. Let me just say it is an apt representation of 'mid life crisis'.

What a remarkable poem on the beauty of here and now and how fragile the fleeting moment is.

Funny moments where also quite sad, and vice versa. I felt the depth in it and had to pause a few times to let it sink in, especially after the time jumps where the main character couldn't remember what had happened and was bewildered by his actions. The sort of unconscious autopilot we all experience in life, where days go by, seasons change, and if you don't appreciate your days, all you do is get lonelier and more miserable as you blow out the candle on the cake again...

The metaphor is of a "lost time" which we use so much in our daily life, but it's eye-opening to see what could actually happen to your relationships if you focus your attention on the superficial stuff and ignore the ones you love... and who love you too no matter what.

I loved this movie so much, thank you to the creators for this thought-provoking meditation and for showing different stages of a relationship as a couple, but also between friends, parent and child, and colleagues.