25th Hour

New York, 2002. Monty Brogan has twenty-four hours left before turning himself in to serve seven years for dealing. He spends them with his father, with his two oldest friends, a teacher and a stockbroker, and with Naturelle, who may be the person who informed on him. Almost nothing happens and everything happens: the film is made of conversations, one last round through the city and a monologue in front of a mirror. Spike Lee shot it in the Manhattan of the months right after 9/11, and the wound stays in frame throughout. Adapted from David Benioff's first novel, with Benioff writing the screenplay.