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Nick of Time (1995)

★ 6.2 · 796 ratings on TMDB

Ninety minutes. Six bullets. No choice.

Nick of Time poster★ 6.2

An ordinary man is suddenly forced into a plot to kill a politician in exchange for his kidnapped daughter's freedom.

DirectorJohn Badham
CastBill Smitrovich, Charles S. Dutton, Christopher Walken, Courtney Chase, Gloria Reuben, Johnny Depp
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

Nick of Time keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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