An interesting premise

So, once a year, for 12 hours overnight, you can commit any crime with a Get Out of Jail Free card. Any. Crime. You know there will be a certain element who will focus on material possessions, theft and looting; a certain element who will focus on killing  each other over turf wars and personal shit; an element that's just criminally insane and will kill for the thrill; and then?

 

Do you go on offense? Do you have the stomach to take care of business? Or do you hunker down and ride out the night on defense? What about your kids? Are they trained and capable to help with home defense? And at what age would you include them in the offensive actions?

 

Just playing Devil's Advocate. Just asking, What if?

  

 

Storyline

In an America wracked by crime and overcrowded prisons, the government has sanctioned an annual 12-hour period in which any and all criminal activity-including murder-becomes legal. The police can't be called. Hospitals suspend help. It's one night when the citizenry regulates itself without thought of punishment. On this night plagued by violence and an epidemic of crime, one family wrestles with the decision of who they will become when a stranger comes knocking. When an intruder breaks into James Sandin's (Ethan Hawke) gated community during the yearly lockdown, he begins a sequence of events that threatens to tear a family apart. Now, it is up to James, his wife, Mary (Lena Headey), and their kids to make it through the night without turning into the monsters from whom they hide. Written byUniversal Pictures