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Director
  
Jon Avnet

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

5.9/10
IMDb


Genre
  
Crime, Drama, Mystery

Writer
  
Gary Scott Thompson

Language
  
English

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Release date
  
March 2, 2007 (2007-03-02) (Israel) April 18, 2008 (2008-04-18) (United States)

Cast
  
Al Pacino
(Jack Gramm),
Alicia Witt
(Kim Cummings),
Leelee Sobieski
(Lauren Douglas),
Amy Brenneman
(Shelly Barnes),
William Forsythe
(Frank Parks),
Deborah Kara Unger
(Carol)

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Blackhat
,
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,
Sicario
,
The Initiation
,
Halloween
,
The Purge: Anarchy

Tagline
  
He has 88 minutes to solve a murder. His own.

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88 Minutes is a 2007 American thriller film directed by Jon Avnet, and starring Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, William Forsythe, Deborah Kara Unger, Amy Brenneman, Neal McDonough and Benjamin McKenzie. Filming began in the Vancouver area on October 8, 2005, and wrapped up in December 2005. In 2007 the film was released in various European countries.

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In May 2007, Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group paid $6 million to acquire North American and select international distribution rights of 88 Minutes. The group released this film in the United States theatrically on April 18, 2008, through TriStar Pictures.

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Plot

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Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) testifies at the trial of suspected serial killer Jon Forster (Neal McDonough), dubbed "The Seattle Slayer" by police. Gramm's testimony and expert psychiatric opinion are crucial to help convict Forster of the attempted killing of Janie Cates and the murder of Joanie Cates, who was drugged, hanged upside down, and killed after the killer broke into her home. After receiving his conviction by the jury, Forster taunts Gramm, saying "Tick-tock, Doc."

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Nine years later, as Forster's execution date approaches, several similar torture murders with very similar circumstances occur. Gramm is questioned by a lawyer from the Attorney General's office as well as FBI Special Agent Frank Parks (William Forsythe) about his connection to the latest victim, Dale Morris, a former psychology student of Gramm's with whom he was at a party the night before, just hours before her death. On the way to his class, Gramm receives a phone call from someone using software to distort their voice, threatening he has 88 minutes to live. He later reports the call to his secretary Shelly (Amy Brenneman) and has her put together a risk assessment profile of potential perpetrators.

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Gramm receives another threatening phone call while teaching and becomes suspicious of his students, particularly Mike Stempt (Benjamin McKenzie). The Dean of students, Carol Johnson (Deborah Kara Unger), interrupts the class to evacuate the building due to a bomb threat called in. As he evacuates the lecture hall, Gramm finds a written threat on the overhead projector in the classroom as well as on his car, which has been vandalized in the parking garage. Gramm then is met by his teaching assistant Kim Cummings (Alicia Witt) who offers to help him find the person that's been targeting him. In the stairwell of the parking garage, Gramm comes upon one of his students, Lauren Douglas (Leelee Sobieski), attacked by an unknown assailant and reports the assault to campus security.

Gramm and Kim go to his condo where a package has been delivered. The package contains an old audio tape of his kid sister, Katie, begging for her life, and her subsequent murder. As Gramm determines someone had accessed his secure files area to obtain the audio tape, suddenly Kim's ex-husband, Guy LaForge (Stephen Moyer), shows up with a gun but is shot and killed from behind by an unknown person wearing a motorcycle helmet and leather protective gear. The shooter flees through the crowd outside after a fire alarm is triggered in the building. A few minutes after, Gramm's car explodes, having been rigged with a bomb.

Renting a cab, Gramm explains to Kim that his sister was killed several years ago when he left her alone in his apartment while he attended an important meeting; the crime took exactly 88 minutes. Next, Gramm and Kim visit Sara Pollard (Leah Cairns), the woman Gramm was with the night before, but find her murdered in her apartment with evidence incriminating Gramm. Carol calls Gramm and makes comments suggesting that she is the killer and demands Gramm meet her at his office. Shelly arrives at Sara's apartment and advises Gramm she suspects Lauren was the one who stole the audio tape of Gramm's sister's death. Kim disappears from the apartment and later calls Gramm with a threat similar to Carol's, also demanding he meet her at the office.

Through prison visitation records, Gramm deduces that Forster's appeals attorney "Lydia Doherty" is actually Lauren using a pseudonym, and surmises she set up the frame on orders from Forster from jail. Kim calls again instructing Gramm to come to another nearby location on campus where he finds Carol has been hung over a seventh floor balcony and Kim is tied up and gagged, held at gun point by Lauren. Lauren threatens Gramm and forces him to "confess" on tape that he gave false testimony at Forster's trial. Special Agent Parks arrives and shoots Lauren, causing both Carol and Lauren to partially fall from the balcony. Gramm saves Carol from completing the fall, but Lauren comes loose and plummets to her death. When Forster calls asking to speak with Lauren, Gramm informs him Lauren is dead, the set up is over. He then quips, "Tick tock, tick tock, you got 12 hours to live," before throwing the phone into the void.

Cast

  • Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Gramm
  • Trilby Glover as Defense Attorney Miss Bennett
  • Alicia Witt as Kim Cummings
  • Leelee Sobieski as Lauren Douglas/Lydia Doherty
  • Amy Brenneman as Shelly Barnes
  • William Forsythe as Special Agent Frank Parks
  • Deborah Kara Unger as Carol Johnson
  • Benjamin McKenzie as Mike Stempt
  • Neal McDonough as Jon Forster
  • Leah Cairns as Sara Pollard
  • Stephen Moyer as Guy LaForge
  • Christopher Redman as Jeremy Guber
  • Brendan Fletcher as Johnny d'Franco
  • Michael Eklund as J. T. Rycker
  • Carrie Genzel as Stephanie Parkman
  • Kristina Copeland as Dale Morris
  • Tammy Hui as Janie Cates
  • Vicky Huang as Joanie Cates
  • Victoria Tennant II as Kate
  • Michal Yannai as Leeza Pearson
  • Paul Campbell as Albert Jackson
  • Box office

    In its opening weekend, the film grossed $6,957,216 in 2,168 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking fourth at the box office and averaging $3,209 per theater. In its second weekend, the film grossed $3,593,890 and fell to number eight at the box office. The film grossed $17,213,467 at the US and Canadian box office and $15,379,918 internationally, for a worldwide gross of $32,593,385.

    Critical response

    88 Minutes was panned by critics and has a "rotten" score of 5% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 122 reviews with an average rating of 2.6 out of 10. The critical consensus states "88 Minutes is a shockingly inept psychological thriller that expertly squanders the talent at hand." The film also has a score of 17 out of 100 on Metacritic based on 27 critics indicating "Overwhelming dislike".

    The film was nominated for two Razzie Awards, Worst Actor for Al Pacino and Worst Supporting Actress for Leelee Sobieski, but lost to Mike Myers for The Love Guru and Paris Hilton for Repo! The Genetic Opera.

    Home media

    88 Minutes was released on home video on September 16, 2008, and sold 220,965 in the opening weekend. As of the seventh week, it has sold about 574,041 units which gathered revenue of $11,150,056 or more than one-third of the budget.

    Remake

    In May 2013, Original Entertainment confirmed to have sealed a five-picture deal with Millennium Films to produce Bollywood remakes of Rambo, The Expendables, 16 Blocks, 88 Minutes, and Brooklyn's Finest, with the productions for Rambo and The Expendables expected to start at the end of that year.

    References

    88 Minutes Wikipedia
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