12:01 PM | |
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Directed by | Jonathan Heap |
Written by | Stephen Tolkin Jonathan Heap |
Based on | "12:01 P.M." by Richard A. Lupoff |
Produced by | Teresa E. Kounin |
Starring | Kurtwood Smith Laura Harrington Don Amendolia Jane Alden |
Cinematography | Charlie Lieberman |
Edited by | Hubert de la Bouillerie |
Music by | Stephen Melillo |
Production company | Chanticleer Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 25 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
12:01 PM is a 1990 short film directed by Jonathan Heap and starring Kurtwood Smith. It aired on cable television in 1990 as part of the Showtime 30-Minute Movie anthology series. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Live Action Short Film.[1][2]
It is the first film adaptation of the short story "12:01 P.M." by Richard A. Lupoff, which was published in the December 1973 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The major plot device is a time loop or time bounce.