Movies that happen in a single day/night similar to American Graffiti or Daze & Confused?

[Jersa]

Training Day
Falling Down

 

[Yams]

After Hours

 

[Squirrel Killer]

Miracle Mile (1988)

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For some reason (probably because it looks like a traffic jam,) this reminds me of Falling Down, which is another that takes place over a single day.

 

[NeverWas]

Nick of Time

 

[Cocolina]

Pretty sure it takes place in 24 hours

 

[LuigiMario]

Booksmart Has a small gap between stuff happening towards the end to account for sleeping but it's just a great film that had serious Linklater vibes.

Watch the Before trilogy if you haven't. My favorite trilogy of all time.

 

[HylianSeven]

The Hangover.

I guess it's technically more than one day, but the bulk of it is centered around one day.

We don't talk about the shitty sequels.

 

[Teenage Fansub]

Was Texas Chainsaw Massacre over a single day/night?

 

[THErest]

Adventures in Babysitting

 

[BringBackSonics]

Breakfast Club
Can't Hardly Wait
I love you, Beth Cooper
From Dusk till Dawn
Mallrats
Empire Records

 

[FernandoRocker]

Great recommendations. Thank you all. I have seen some of those films, and now I need to track some others I haven't.

 

[Violence Jack]

The Descent
Dog Soldiers
The Thing
The Blob remake (I think takes place within a night)
Night of the Living Dead

 

[Deleted member 18944]

Margin Call
Coherence
Locke
Certified Copy
Gravity
Dunkirk
Cabin in the Woods (IIRC)


What? LOL, no.

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the majority of the movie totally is though, isn't it? As soon as they leave tattooine there is no downtime at all.

 

[SwampBastard]

Collateral

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Came to post this.

Instead: Phone Booth

 

[Mg.]

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World

An epic comedy from '63 that goes on way longer than a comedy should. I think the idea was the movie pretty much takes place in realtime. (Including the 15+ minutes of break in theatres)

 

[Jesse_and_the_rippers]

Adventures in Babysitting

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Hell yes. First movie I ever saw that was not G rated, and it blew my young mind. The 80's was peak era for "kids in danger" movies.

 

[Sheepinator]

A couple of older ones, good comedies...

Quick Change (Bill Murray, bank robbery)

Clockwise (John Cleese)

 

[onpoint]

Warriors

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Great reply. Movie never gets the respect it deserves.

 

[Bisha Monkey]

Inception.

 

[AlphaMale]

Harold & Kumar go to White Castle
Training Day
Pulp Fiction (?)

 

[Sephzilla]

Die Hard 1 and 2

 

[The Ethereal One]

Training Day was the first film to cone to mind.

Also all 3 of the Friday films.

 

[Sheepinator]

30 Days of Night

 

[StrangeRoboMemory]

Margin Call is a great example of this.

 

[PassiveObserver]

After Hours

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GOAT answer.

A few foreign suggestions:
Oslo, August 31st
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Victoria

 

[Ruruja]

Assault on Precinct 13.

 

[Yams]

GOAT answer.

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It's probably my favored non Paris, Texas movie

 

[Panther2103]

Quite a few slasher movies are over a single day / night from what I'm remembering.

 

[demonicmurry]

The Last Jedi, though the way time moves between the plot threads makes little sense to me.

 

[WhySoDevious]

Three O'Clock High (except for the last scene, which takes place the next day)

 

[cj_iwakura]

Run Lola Run, although I don't think it's really like American Graffiti or Dazed and Confused.

It's a great movie.

Although mans it's crazy how much of like 90s german aesthetic this is now. When I saw this in High school I thought it was the coolest shit I had ever seen, but now I watch this trailer and it seems like a parody.



Probably because it's been parodied so much

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The song is still a banger, though.

 

[Bigwombat]

Training day I believe

 

[DirtyLarry]

Was Texas Chainsaw Massacre over a single day/night?

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It is. Good call.

 

[henlo_birb]

This is a good thread.

 

[Mona]

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Glengarry Glen Ross

 

[Bleu]

D.O.A and its remakes

 

[Violet]

how has no one mentioned SLACKER or MYSTERY TRAIN

 

[cakely]

After Hours directed by Martin Scorcese

If you haven't seen it, holds up pretty well.

 

[Prolepro]

Victoria is great and is a single +2 hour take over a night.

 

[Aurongel]

Gravity.

 

[Guzim]

Friday the 13th parts 2-4 all take place in the same weekend.

 

[Laser Ramon]

Ready or Not

 

[Phoenixazure]

Miracle Mile (1988)

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I saw this movie as a kid and it still freaks me the fuck out when i think about it.

 

[Gunny T Highway]

Training Day

 

[Duck Sauce]

Trojan War if i'm remembering correctly.

 

[Princess Bubblegum]

One of Linklater's least talked about films, Tape. It's really good and also takes place in one location.

 

[wesker83]

Nick of Time

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Was going to say this. Think the entire movie is real time for like 90 minutes.

 

[Deleted member 18502]

The Hollywood Knights takes place on Halloween night 1965.

Groundhog Day of course.

 

[crimsonECHIDNA]

 

[machine]

After Hours was already mentioned so I will mention another "yuppie nightmare cycle" movie: Into the Night. Early Goldblum and Pfeiffer make it fun.