'In Time' mixes glossy style with a social conscience

Submitted on November 02, 2011
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John P. McCarthy | Catholic News Service
Vincent Kartheiser, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star in a scene from the movie “In Time.”
Vincent Kartheiser, Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star in a scene from the movie “In Time.”
Twentieth Century Fox/Catholic News Service
NEW YORK — The dystopia sketched out in the sci-fi thriller "In Time" is intriguing and, theoretically at least, more than a little chilling. In the near future, each member of society has been genetically engineered to stop aging when they reach 25, after which they'll live for only one more year unless they can add more time to their biological clock.

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