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Dead on Time

5.9

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Original title

Dead on Time

Year

1983

Running time

33 min.

Country

United Kingdom

Director

Lyndall Hobbs

Screenwriter

Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis

Cast

Music

Howard Goodall

Cinematography

John Metcalfe

Producer

Michael White Production

Genre

Comedy | Half-length Film

Synopsis

It tells the story of Bernard Fripp (Rowan Atkinson) a man who, on attending a routine check-up, is diagnosed by his doctor (Nigel Hawthorne) as having a rare disease leaving him only 30 minutes to live.

By the time he leaves the surgery, he only has 24 minutes left, in which he attempts to live life to the full; taking out his life savings, trying to make peace with God (via Vicar (Jim Broadbent), attempting to learn about the significance of the Mona Lisa, reading the back cover of War and Peace to find out what happens in it, listening to Albinioni's Adagio in G minor and looking for true love.

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Dead on Time

1983

Lyndall Hobbs

5.9

(34)