88 Minutes (2008)

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Directed by Jon Avnet, Jon Avent.

Starring William Forsythe, Neal McDonough, Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Amy Brenneman, Leelee Sobieski.

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Jon Avnet directs Al Pacino in the thriller 88 Minutes. Pacino plays a university professor who occasionally assists the FBI in matters of forensic psychiatry. As the film opens, the professor learns that someone plans to kill him in 88 minutes. As with the like-minded thriller D.O.A. (both the original and the remake), the protagonist must use his skills in order to track down who has hatched this evil plot and hopefully prevent his own demise. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide

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Over Time
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"How to put this mildly? When Al Pacino gets a call from an anonymous antagonist in the new thriller “88 Minutes” and tells him he has 88 minutes to live, my first thought after looking at Pacino was “Is it his physician? His cardiologist?”Haggard and crinkly as a wadded-up Kleenex, Pacino looks far out of a role that requires him to be a hard-partying, libidinous professor whose musk seems to attract all female students a quarter his age.The film’s opening scene, in which he’s getting jiggy with a roomful of models/students (seriously, are there no ugly kids taking forensics classes in this town?), is far more frightening than anything that follows in this sub-standard serial killer thriller directed by Jon Avnet.Pacino plays Dr. Jack Gramm, a forensic psychiatrist whose professional prowess lands him a sweet gig with the local FBI, a spot on staff at a Seattle university, and an endless receiving line of beautiful young students ready to persona ... " [More]

Trailer of the Day: 88 Minutes
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"I know star power isn’t what it used to be, but doesn’t it seem like we still give Al Pacino more credit than he’s worth? Despite his receiving an Oscar fifteen years ago, the guy hasn’t been a completely dependable actor in more than two decades. And yet a lot of people write about his upcoming movies as if they could maybe, possibly, hopefully be on par with the actor’s ’70s work. I’m not denying that he’s excellent in a few films of even the past ten years (particularly The Insider), but let’s not forget he was also in Gigli, so it isn’t like he’s making the same smart choices he was making as a younger man. And now here’s 88 Minutes, another movie that attempts to give us a thrilling plot in real time, a la 24. But despite such a gimmick working with old films like High Noon and 12 Angry Men, when it’s presented as a gimmick, and clearly as the only reason a movie is made (as in the cases of Nick of Time, Timecode and Phone Booth), it always comes off as forced and (obviously) ... " [More]

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"In late 2005, Jon Avnet (who, it should be noted, is a very successful producer who hasn’t directed a film you might have seen since Fried Green Tomatoes) directed Al Pacino in a “real-time thriller” called 88 Minutes. A trailer for that film seems to have shown up on the web around this time last summer. According to IMDb, 88 Minutes was released on DVD in Brazil this past February and in a handful of other countries theatrically over the course of the spring; the pic’s US release date has been bumped several times, and is now listed as sometime in 2008. Perhaps now we know why. In an interview with Pitchfork, indie rock guitar virtuoso Marnie Stern admitted to having recently downloaded “40 or 50 movies” while touring with Hella drummer Zach Hill. “But,” she says, “Every movie is a pile of garbage!” Stern elaborates on one recent download: Another movie I saw last night was Al Pacino in 88 Minutes, I don’t even know if it went to the goddamn theatres. He looks unbelievably terr ... " [More]

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