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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: August 20, 2013
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Image Entertainment
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Al Pacino | |
Performer: | Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman, Neal McDonough, William Forsythe, Melinda Clarke & Deborah Kara Unger | |
Directed by | Jon Avnet | |
Edited by | Peter E. Berger | |
Screenwriting by | Gary Scott Thompson | |
Composition by | Edward Shearmur | |
Produced by | Randall Emmett, Gary Scott Thompson & Jon Avnet | |
Director of Photography: | Denis Lenoir | |
Executive Production by | Josef Lautenshlager, Andreas Thiesmeyer, Lawrence Bender, John Baldecchi, Avi Lerner, Trevor Short, John Thompson & George Furla |
Entertainment Reviews:
If you like your women half-naked, strung upside-down from pulleys, and sliced like deli meat, this is the movie for you. Whether the victims are more tortured than the plot is a serious question.
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Film.com
Rating: 0/6 --
Now that this stupendously inept serial-killer flick has slithered into theaters, the diminutive legend had better clear room in his closet for another cinematic skeleton.
Time Out
Rating: 1/5 --
Interestingly, the more overblown and insincere a performance Pacino delivers in a film, the more self-important and bouffant his hair gets. Here, it's so towering it takes up 90 per cent of the screen.
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Times (UK)
Rating: 2/4 --
Pacino is magnetic no matter what he's doing, even if his surroundings aren't quite up to par.
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From the Front Row
Don't bother
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Lacking tension in its setting and empathy for its characters, 88 Minutes is a woeful excuse of a thriller thanks to the inept direction by Jon Avnet, who has forgotten to inject emotion and thrills in what can only be described as a bloated crime movie.
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Matt's Movie Reviews
Nothing would give me keener pleasure than to reveal the identity of the killer, but a day after seeing the film I have genuinely forgotten.
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New Yorker
Product Description:
In 88 MINUTES, Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino), a Seattle-based college professor and forensic psychiatrist, is informed by an enigmatic caller that he has exactly that amount of time to live. The threat is linked to Gramm's role in putting a convicted serial killer (Neal McDonough) behind bars nearly a decade earlier, and sends the scholar/consultant on a desperate run to avert his imminent demise. Entering into Gramm's dangerous orbit are his dutiful assistant (Amy Brenneman), an FBI agent (William Forsythe), and his admiring young students (most notably Alicia Witt), all of whom add layers to the tense mystery.
Shelved for years, 88 MINUTES was finally released in U.S. theaters during 2008, marking director Jon Avnet's first feature-film project since 1997's RED CORNER. (Avnet was brought in as a replacement for original helmer James Foley.) Pacino clearly knows his way around a thriller (see HEAT and INSOMNIA), and approaches his beleaguered character with typical gusto, while his costars, particularly Forsythe and Witt, also offer up energetic turns. Though the high-concept plot is secondary to Pacino's agitated performance, even those who drift from the storyline will appreciate the Hollywood veteran's over-the-top acting, especially if they are diehard fans of the iconic actor.
Shelved for years, 88 MINUTES was finally released in U.S. theaters during 2008, marking director Jon Avnet's first feature-film project since 1997's RED CORNER. (Avnet was brought in as a replacement for original helmer James Foley.) Pacino clearly knows his way around a thriller (see HEAT and INSOMNIA), and approaches his beleaguered character with typical gusto, while his costars, particularly Forsythe and Witt, also offer up energetic turns. Though the high-concept plot is secondary to Pacino's agitated performance, even those who drift from the storyline will appreciate the Hollywood veteran's over-the-top acting, especially if they are diehard fans of the iconic actor.
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