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John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor, producer and musician. He is the recipient of various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. He made his debut in the horror film A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), before rising to prominence as a teen idol on the television series 21 Jump Street (1987–1990). In the 1990s, he acted mostly in independent films, often playing eccentric characters. These included What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Benny and Joon (1993), Dead Man (1995), Donnie Brasco (1997) and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). He also began collaborating with director Tim Burton, starring in Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), and Sleepy Hollow (1999). In the 2000s, he became one of the most commercially successful film stars by playing Captain Jack Sparrow in the swashbuckler film series Pirates of the Caribbean (2003–present). He received critical praise for Finding Neverland (2004), and continued his commercially successful collaboration with Tim Burton with the films Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), and Alice in Wonderland (2010). In 2012, he was one of the world's biggest film stars, and was listed by the Guinness World Records as the world's highest-paid actor, with earnings of US$75 million. During the 2010s, Depp began producing films through his company, Infinitum Nihil, and formed the rock supergroup Hollywood Vampires with Alice Cooper and Joe Perry.
He repairs watches that stopped at the moment of someone's death. When a watch arrived that stopped at a time no one could explain, he stopped sleeping. Anatole Beaumont, 62, is a Parisian master watchmaker who has spent forty years in a shop on the Île Saint-Louis repairing watches that stopped working. He has a private philosophy: every stopped watch contains the specific moment it witnessed, and the mechanical failure is the watch's way of refusing to move past it. When a specific watch arrives — one that stopped at a time three hours in the future — Anatole's philosophy becomes something more urgent. The mystery of who sent the watch and why consumes his retirement, his considerable expertise, and eventually draws him into the orbit of a woman — the watch's previous owner — who shares his specific obsession with time. Act One — The Watch Arrives Anatole's shop. The watch. The impossible stopped time. His first night of not sleeping. Act Two — The Investigation Céline's appearance. The watchmaker's guild. The 1923 workshop's history. The physics of what a stopped watch at a future time means. Act Three — 14:47:23 The moment arrives. What Anatole does with the remaining three hours.
