Clockstoppers

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 Please help improve this article or section by expanding it.
Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion. (May 2007)
Clockstoppers

Clockstoppers promotional poster
Directed by Jonathan Frakes
Produced by Gale Anne Hurd
Julia Pistor
Written by Rob Hedden
Starring Jesse Bradford
Paula Garcés
French Stewart
Music by Jamshied Sharifi
Distributed by Paramount Pictures
Release date(s) March 29, 2002 (USA)
Running time 94 min.
Language English
Budget $26,000,000
IMDb profile

Clockstoppers is a 2002 film produced by Nickelodeon Movies and released by Paramount Pictures. It was directed by Jonathan Frakes and written by Rob Hedden, Andy Hedden, J. David Stem and David N. Weiss.

Contents

[edit] Plot

The NSA-funded QT (Quantum Tech) Corporation has slated a project to develop Hypertime, a technology which allows the user's molecules to speed up to the point where the world appears to be standing still. After realizing that such technology could also be used against the USA, the NSA orders the project stopped. However, the research is farther along than the NSA expected and Henry Gates, the head of QT, plans on using the technology to usurp the leader of the NSA and dominate the world. He uses the prototype to stretch the weekend in order to give the brilliant lead scientist, Earl Dopler, time to fix the remaining glitch in the technology after his henchmen Richard and Jay prevent Earl's incognito leave at the airport.

However, initially unknown to Gates, the lead scientist had sent a prototype to a former colleague of his named Dr. Gibbs. His son Zak discovers the watch and shares it with his friends. Once Gates finds out about the leaked prototype, he attempts to retrieve it. Once the teens learn Gates' ultimate goal, they attempt to prevent Gates from succeeding.

Henry Gates, Richard, and Jay managed to locate the hotel that Dr. Gibbs was staying at and managed to get him to come with them.

Dopler helps the kids break in but decides not to go as well. Zak and his girlfriend arrive with paintball guns with paintballs filled with frozen nitrogen as the cool temperature takes someone out of hypertime into normal time. They get caught by Henry Gates, Richard, and Jay and are thrown in a cell with Zak's dad but manage to break out as the NSA Agents arrives and defeat Gates' goons. Gates is not defeated and knocks Zak's girlfriend out of hypertime and prepares to do the same to Zak and his dad. Suddenly he's shot with a paintball by Dopler who returned to help and Dopler shoots him until he reverts to normal time defeating him. Gates and his goons are arrested and Dopler uses the machine he was building to reverse the aging effects of hypertime that happened to him, but it reverts him back into a teenager. Zak finally gets the car he wanted and he, his girlfriend, his sister and Dopler take off in it shooting into hypertime to avoid the cops.

[edit] Music

[edit] Cast

[edit] Taglines

  • "Freeze the future."
  • "What if you had the power to stop time?"

[edit] Trivia

In the scenes at the Congress of Applied Technology convention, after the main characters "acquire" some materials, Jonathan Frakes (the director) can be seen in the background chatting with someone while Earl Doppler says, "We just need some place quiet to go to work for a while."

[edit] External links

v • d • e
Nickelodeon Movies