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In a retro-future when the aging gene has been switched off, people must pay to stay alive. People stop aging at age 25. However, stamped on their arm is a clock of how long they will live. To avoid overpopulation, time has become the currency and the way people pay for luxuries and necessities. The rich can live forever, while the rest try to negotiate for their immortality. A poor young man is accused of murder when he receives a fortune of time from a dead upper class man. He is forced to go on the run from a FBI-like police force known as the 'Timekeepers'.

* [[Hot Dad]] and [[Hot Mom]]: When everyone stays 25 forever, this trope is the only logical conclusion.

* [[Idle Rich]]: The rich can actually literally have time to waste, thus spend all their days doing things very slowly.

* [[Immortality Immorality]]: The point that Will (and, before him, Henry Hamilton) is trying to make is that the wealthy stay immortal by exploiting the poor, who live day-by-day and collapse dead when they don't even have enough time for rent.

* [[Inspector Javert]] / [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]]: Timekeeper Raymond Leon straddles the line between the two. At first, he just seems to be doing his job, making him the latter. As the movie presses on, however, there are hints that Leon isn't doing this just because he feels it's the right thing to do. {{spoiler|The final revelation that he's from the ghetto and is making sure that people from there stay there actively makes him Javert.}}

** Another positive example in "Is it still stealing if it was stolen to begin with?"

* [[Just Like Robin Hood]]: Pretty much the whole point of the plot is Will stealing time from the immortal and giving it to the dying.

* [[Lampshaded Double Entendre]]: "After I've taken you, I'll take her. ''[[[Beat]]]'' And her time too, of course."

* [[Leonine Contract]]: A way of life when bankruptcy kills you and everyone can see how much time you have to live if you refuse the deal. Pawn shops will fleece customers if they think they can get away with it (can't afford to wait a day until we open again, sucks to be you) while the biggest mogul in the country runs payday lending facilities with staggering interest.

** Or even regressed. Note that we never see a personal computer, no one seems to communicate through the internet, and people use payphones. {{spoiler|In fact, Will's mom dies due to [[For Want of a Nail|lack of a cell phone]].}}

* [[Moving the Goalposts]]: People in the ghetto get hit with this hard. Will goes over his previous quota, only to be cheated out of a bonus because the quota went up. His mother is forced to walk home when the bus fare doubles for no reason. Will's later criminal activities only make the problem worse; to compensate for his thefts, the costs are jacked up.

* [[Oh Crap]]: The default reaction of anyone who is almost out of time, except [[Nerves of Steel|Will]].

* [[Older Than They Look]]