I can understand why Ellison dropped his lawsuit

Rating: 6/10 (28 January 2012)

I've read "Repent Harlequin," and it's nothing like "In Time." The wrong author sued, however. This movie is a great deal like another short story - "Time is Money" by Lee Falk, published in Playboy Magazine in 1975. Don't ask why I was reading Playboy as a teenager, but this story stuck with me, more because of the premise than the writing. The use of time as currency, with death when your clock hits 0:00, the super-rich with centuries in the bank, the desperation of people about to time out, the population never aging, even the manner of transmitting time - a touch, are all reminiscent of "In Time," so much so I can't believe that whoever wrote this script hadn't seen the story.