List of works set in a single day
This is a list of works of fiction set within a single period of 24 hours.
A "Day in the life" is a recurring device used in various media forms, such as books films, plays and television series, showing the events that happen to the character over a day. Some celebrated examples in literature are James Joyce's Ulysses, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf.
List of works
- Literature
- Television shows
- 24, each season of which is set over 24 hours
- Films
- The Breakfast Club, set during a Saturday detention in an American school
- Clerks, set during a day at a convenience store
- Dazed and Confused, set during the last day of school
- Do the Right Thing, set during the hottest day of summer in Brooklyn
- Empire Records
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Fruitvale Station, covering the last day of a young man's life
- Friday, 1995 American film, and its sequels
- Friday, 2012 Indian film set on 11/11/11
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, film adaptation of the novel
- One Fine Day
- Sixteen Candles, set on a sixteenth birthday
- Training Day
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