Downtime is a 1997 British film directed by Bharat Nalluri and produced by Richard L. Johns.

It stars Paul McGann and Susan Lynch.

Former police psychologist Rob helps to save a young woman, Chrissy, when she is about to commit suicide by jumping off a 21st-storey balcony with her 4-year-old son, Jake.

When he persuades her to go on a date, they are trapped with Jake and a neighbour called Pat in a lift because a drunken gang crashed into its engine room.

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