Hoonster

There's a movie I remember seeing when I was a kid (around 1990 or so, but the flick could and probably is older than that, I saw it on TV) that was about a future society where money was "your life", literally. If you wanted to buy something, you scanned your card (?) and "paid" with minutes, hours, days of your life.

Does this ring a bell to anyone?

Hoonster

Nobody knows?

C.H.U.D.

Sounds like a great premise for a movie, but I've never heard of it.

neiname

Awesome idea for a movie. Would cigarettes be stackable?

darkflounder

Does sound like an awesome idea. Could I deposit money and extend my life??

Or, get that super Mercedes and die next year

audrey

Hmmm…like the others, I have no idea what this movie might be. The plot sounds somewhat reminiscent of the Twilight Zone episode where people sell their memories.

Jaymole

Independence Day - I paid $9 and it took 2 hours of my life that I wish I could have back

Actually, I have no idea, but it is an interesting concept for a film.

Josh-da-man

It sounds vaguely like the Harlan Ellison story "Repent, Harlequin! Said the Tick Tock Man."

tasha99

Dang. I checked up HE's filmography for Harlquin and didn't see it, but a lot of his short stories were made into tv shows. That said, even though they did my two favorites ( "The Whimper of Whipped Dogs" and "I Have no Mouth and I Must Scream,") I still don't want to see them. I'm just guessing they'd be cheesy when the stories really weren't.

tasha

Nick Danger

That's not it. "Repent Harlequin" is about a guy who dropped jelly beans into the gears of a society in which being late was criminal.