Holly Hunter is a movie executive, Kyle MacLachlan plays a shark-like agent. It's all very amusing and entertaining. But that outline tells only half the story. It's rare to see a film offering a pointer to the direction htat cinema might take in the next decade, but Time Code is such a film. You see it on a screen split into quarters, with different action in four locations occurring simultaneously.
Dialogue is improvised.
The stories of its 20-odd characters overlap, as does the space they occupy. Amazingly, there is no editing. Only the sound-levels of dialogue, fluctuating as each of the narratives proceeds, nudge the attention to one story at any given time. This makes it sound forbidding, and indeed for the first five minutes you wonder how on earth you will keep up with all the visual and verbal information coming at you from four screens. You find yourself indulging in a lot of rapid eye movement.