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* Also, it's maybe more like 36 hours, since there's some footage of the next day, but ''Shampoo'' pretty much takes place over the course of one day.
* The majority of ''[[Primer]]'' takes place over about three days. [[Timey-Wimey Ball|Multiple times]]. [[Mind Screw|Probably.]]
* If you exclude the first few opening scenes and the epilogue, ''[[Harry Potter
* ''[[Buffalo '66]]'' takes place over 24 hours, flashbacks notwithstanding.
* ''[[Run Lola Run]]'' covers the "same" twenty minutes three times.
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* ''[[Bad Day at Black Rock]]''. The 'Day' of the title is literal, with the events of the movie encompassing about 24 hours.
* The events of ''[[Cornered!]]'' cover one night (plus a very short epilogue than cannot be more than a day or two later, judging from the cut on {{spoiler|Morty}}'s face).
* Barring flashbacks, ''[[Bullet Train (film)|Bullet Train]]'' takes place over the course of an overnight journey.
== [[Literature]] ==
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* Spoofed in the ''[[Golden Girls]]'', where Dorothy mentions not having read [[Apartment 3 G]] in over twenty years and Blanche, who reads it every day offers to fill her in on what's happened since. Although her exposition is interrupted it starts with "Well, it's later that day..."
* ''[[True Blood]]'' takes up so far about 45 days with a 1 year time skip between seasons 3 and 4. Episodes tend to be about 1 day long, but several are real time except for perhaps a final scene.
* Though the main plot of ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' has taken place over several
== [[Theatre]] ==
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== Web Original ==
* Volume 3 of ''[[RWBY]]'' appears to take place over the course of a week or less, unlike Volumes 1, 2 and 4
** Volume 5 is an odd case. It has [[Two Lines, No Waiting|two narrative threads]] running out of synch with each other. The Menagerie thread takes place over the course of at least a month and possibly more -- but the Haven thread appears to take place in less than two weeks, possibly even in one week. (If these estimates are correct, virtually all of the Menagerie thread takes place before the Haven thread actually starts!)
** Similarly, Volume 6 seems to take place in the space of a week or at most two, aside from flashbacks.
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