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88 Minutes
88 Minutes
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Directed by	Jon Avnet
Written by	Gary Scott Thompson
Produced by	Jon Avnet; Randall Emmett; Michael P. Flannigan; George Furla
Starring	Al Pacino; Benjamin McKenzie; Alicia Witt; Leelee Sobieski; Deborah Kara Unger; Amy Brenneman; Neal McDonough
Music by	Edward Shearmur
Distributed by	TriStar Pictures
Release dates	April 18, 2008
Running time	110 min
Language	English
Budget	$30,000,000
Box office	$30,667,634

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88 Minutes is a 2008 American drama film directed by Jon Avnet starring Al Pacino, Benjamin McKenzie, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Deborah Kara Unger, Amy Brenneman and Neal McDonough. Filming began in the Vancouver area on October 8, 2005 and wrapped in December 2005. The film was released in various territories during 2007.

In May 2007, TriStar Pictures acquired all U.S. distribution rights of 88 Minutes;^[2] TriStar Pictures released this movie in the United States theatrically on April 18, 2008.

Cast

Al Pacino as Dr. Jack Gramm
Benjamin McKenzie as Mike Stemp
Alicia Witt as Kim Cummings
Leelee Sobieski as Lauren Douglas a.k.a. Lydia Doherty
Amy Brenneman as Shelly Barnes
William Forsythe as Special Agent Frank Parks
Deborah Kara Unger as Carol Johnson
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. Ryker
Kristina Copeland as Dale Morris
Tammy Hui as Janie Kay
Victoria Tennant as Kate
Michal Yannai as Leeza Pearson
Mike Dopud as Sherif (Uncredited)

Production

Jon Avnet replaced James Foley as director. Kristin Cavallari originally had a role in this film, but pulled out. Shero Rauf was the digital effects artist for the film.

Filming locations

The university scenes in the film were shot at the University of British Columbia (UBC) near Vancouver, which stood in for a fictional Northwest Washington University. It attracted much attention on campus (mainly due to Pacino's presence in the film) and filming was interrupted repeatedly because of it. This also could have been because many integral scenes were filmed in the busiest areas of campus during peak class hours. It was common for students to exit buildings after class only to walk into a shooting location.

Scenes were also shot on the campus of UCLA. The filming was secretive and did not draw as much attention as it did at UBC.^{[citation needed]}

Critical reception

88 Minutes was heavily panned by critics. The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 6% of critics gave the film positive reviews, based on 99 reviews.^[3] On Metacritic, the film has an average score of 17 out of 100, based on 27 reviews.^[4]

Box office performance

In its opening weekend, the film grossed $6,957,216 in 2,168 theaters in the United States and Canada, ranking #4 at the box office and averaging $3,209 per theater. In its second weekend, the film grossed $3,593,890 and fell to #8 at the box office.^[5] The film's worldwide gross is $30,667,634 with $16,930,884 from the US and Canadian box office and $13,736,750 from the rest of the world.

References

^ 88 Minutes (2008)
^ Sony snaps up 'Friday' remake - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety
^ "88 Minutes Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
^ "88 Minutes (2008): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
^ "88 Minutes (2008) - Weekend Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-04-21.

External links

[boxoffice-1] 88 Minutes (2008)

[2] Sony snaps up 'Friday' remake - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety

[3] "88 Minutes Movie Reviews, Pictures - Rotten Tomatoes". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2008-04-24.

[4] "88 Minutes (2008): Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2008-04-24.

[5] "88 Minutes (2008) - Weekend Box Office Results". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-04-21.

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 In [[May 2007]], [[TriStar Pictures]] acquired all [[United States|U.S.]] distribution rights of ''88 Minutes'';<ref>[http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=festivals&jump=story&id=1061&articleid=VR1117965551&cs=1 Sony snaps up 'Friday' remake - Entertainment News, Film News, Media - Variety<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> TriStar Pictures released this movie in the United States theatrically on [[April 18]], [[2008]].
-==Plot==
-The opening credit sequence begins with Jack Graham ([[Al Pacino]]) dancing in the club with a beautiful girl. Then they share a glass of wine. Then the movie begins flashing to pictures of random murder victims, and a young girl running on the beach with a kite.
-Graham wakes up to the radio blaring music. He looks over and sees the woman he was dancing with, nude and brushing her teeth. Her name is Sarah and she is studying to become a lawyer. He walks into the kitchen and she is serving breakfast.
-He gets a phone call from Shelly ([[Amy Brenneman]]), who tells him that Frank Parks ([[William Forsythe]]) is looking for him. Frank tells Gramm there has been another murder. It follows the same MO as killings done by the Seattle Slayer. But this time, the killer has left a tape. Sarah looks out the window and sees a guy on motorcycle looking up at her. As Jack gets in his cab, he too sees the man on the motorcycle. But he is too busy to care about it.
-On the radio in the cab, they are interviewing Jon Forster ([[Neal McDonough]]). He was convicted of killing Jodie Kates nine years ago. He was convicted based on the testimony of her twin sister Janie Kates. He is set to be executed at midnight. Gramm asks the driver to change the station. He notices a tattoo on the back of the drivers neck that says “R.R.” and then some date underneath it. And he sees that the driver’s name is Carlo Mendez.
-At his office, Graham meets Jeremy Gruber ([[Christopher Redman]]), who is head of the Seattle Slayer task force. Forster, who is supposed to die at midnight, was convicted as the Seattle Slayer nine years ago. So now, Graham believes that it is a copy cat. But Gruber believes that it may be one of Forster’s partners from way back, committing the murder to throw doubt on Forster. In doing so, it would get Forster exonerated or at least a new trial. His conviction was based on Graham’s expert opinion that got him convicted. Apparently Forster’s first trial was thrown out (Procedural error). And although there were six murders, Forster was only tried for one of them. Gruber asks Graham if there was anything that he would like to reconsider, regarding the case. He says no. Gruber asks if he has a personal vendetta against Jon Forster. Graham says he has a vendetta against all serial murderers.
-Parks tells Graham that Dale Morris ([[Kristina Copeland]]) was the latest victim. She was a student of Graham. They had a “professional” relationship a year ago, after her father died. They ask Graham when he saw her last time. It was last night at the bar. She had toasted Graham for Forster’s conviction not being overturned.
-The tape that was left at the scene of the murder was a tape of Morris. She was tied up and beaten. She says to Graham that he got the wrong guy. That Forster was innocent. She asks if the man will let her go. She screams that she read what he asked her too. Graham looks dismayed as he hears Morris being killed on the tape.
-He goes back to the university where he teaches. He is walking in the rain, when he gets a phone call. It starts with a woman screaming. Then a masked voice comes on and says, “You have 88 minutes to live. You know how long 88 minutes can be? 11:45am. Tick Tock.”  He calls Shelly and tells her to call his wireless provider, to try and trace his last incoming call.
-Graham goes into his class and begins giving his lecture. Midway through, he gets another call saying he now has 83 minutes to live now. He looks around his class. At the top of the stairs, he sees the man who was on the motorcycle outside his apartment that morning. He then gets a call from Shelly, saying that the phone calls came from a pre paid cell phone registered to a Kate Graham. She says is must be a coincidence, and it couldn’t be his sister.
-His phone begins to cut out. The masked voice comes back and asks if he found out who the phone was registered to. He tells Gramm that she suffered for such a long time. He asks if he feels guilty for falsifying evidence and lying on the stand. 79 minutes.
-The students find out that Dale Morris had been murdered and they ask Graham about it. They ask if it was the slayer. He says maybe, but the police haven’t released any details. The dean of the university, Carol Johnson comes in the class room and says there has been a bomb threat. She tells everyone to gather their things to leave. As he is walking up the steps, a note appears on the projector that says “76 minutes to live...”.
-Shelly calls Graham to tell him that Dale’s name has gotten out to the press. Forster is asking for a stay of execution, stating the true killers have never been brought to justice. And they have also applied for a re trial, based on the belief that Graham lied on the stand and falsified evidence. As Graham is hanging up his phone, he drops it down the stairs, breaking it. He walks up to his car in the parking garage. It has been vandalized and on the trunk is scratched “72 minutes”.
-Graham runs into his assistant Kim ([[Alicia Witt]]) and borrows her cell phone. He tells her to pull his car around, so he can go to security. On his way, he hears a woman calling for help. It’s Lauren (Leelee Sobieski), one of his students. She tells him she was assaulted by a man in a leather jacket. He tries to cover her face with a cloth soaked in [[Halothane]]. The same stuff the Seattle Slayer uses.
-I’ll skip ahead, but basically Parks runs a check of all of Grahams' students who might have visited Forster in prison. Only one, Mike Stempt ([[Benjamin McKenzie]]) visited Forster four times in the last six weeks. He forged Graham’s signature to get in to see him. Also, Kim’s ex- boyfriend served time in the same prison as Forster. Graham asks Parks to track him down too. After almost getting run down by the guy on the motorcycle, Graham gets a call on Kim’s cell phone that says, “How’s it feel to know you’re not going to live through another night? 56 minutes.”
-Kim tells Graham that the guy on the motorcycle is her ex. His name is Guy LaForge. Graham brings Kim back to his apartment. There is a package waiting for him. It was dropped off by Guy. Inside the package is a tape recorder. Graham plays it but at first it’s only static. Then after a second play, a girl’s voice comes on. It is Katie’s voice. She is calling for her parents and jack. It is very similar to the way Dale acted on the other tape. He then gets another call. The voice asks why he left little Katie all alone. And says she would be still alive, had he just not left her alone.
-Forster is live on MSNBC talking about how he was wrongly convicted, so Graham decides to call in to get him to crack. All it ends up doing is making Graham look worse. It is announced that Forster has been granted a stay of execution. Forster breaks down in tears. Graham just merely hangs up the phone. Parks calls and says that Graham is wanted for questioning in Dale Morris’ death. There was physical evidence found at the scene. Parks says he needs to come in. Graham hangs up the phone. The bell man buzzes Graham that another package has shown up. Right then, the bell man yells at somebody for coming up. Graham sets the alarm so no one can come in. Smoke begins to seep in under the door. LaForge begins banging on the door, looking for Kim. Kim opens the door in hopes of calming him down. Suddenly, he is shot from down the stairs by another person wearing motorcycle leathers and a helmet.
-He leads Kim down the fire escape and out of the building. Someone sees Jack has a gun and the crowd becomes hysterical. Jack is almost run over by a fire truck. Kim presses the alarm button on Jack’s key chain. When nothing beeps, Jack throws Kim on the ground. His car explodes. Jack realizes that the key to his innocence is at the girl’s apartment he spent the night at. He bribes a cabby to drive his cab over to her apartment.
-Before they go up, Jack finally breaks down and tells Kim the story about his sister. He was 28, and working on a big case. The guy he was after had killed 6 women and Jack was getting really close to catching him. Jack left his 12 year old sister home alone while he went to a meeting about the case. The guy broke in and did unspeakable things to Jack’s sister. When the police caught the guy, he laughed and said it took him 88 minutes to hack up his sister to pieces. Jack was so out of it, he left it all behind and came to Seattle to see if he could get a fresh start. So whoever sent the tape and is trying to kill him knew the importance of 88 minutes.
-They go up to her apartment. The door is unlocked. They go in to search around. Jack go into the girl’s bedroom, to find her hung up the same way Dale Morris and the rest of the Seattle Slayer’s victims were. Jack shows Kim a forged credit card receipt and tells her the apartment is filled with his DNA. He knows they will try to pin it on him. He gets a phone call from the dean of the school. She asks if he got the tape of Katie suffering and that his car blowing up would be a close call. She says she called Parks and told him that Graham had killed Sarah after he killed Dale Morris. She says that Forster got a death sentence and he is about to free. She tells Graham to meet her at his office, and that he only has 14 minutes. Tick tock.
-On their way out, Shelly comes into the apartment. When she sees the body, she freaks out. She tells Graham she it was her fault that someone stole the tape. She and Lauren Douglas had a few drinks together, had a little fun and they passed out on his couch. She had pictures of the person but they were wearing a helmet so it was impossible to see them. Graham tells Shelly he needs to get to his office. He looks around for Kim but she is gone. He calls her Blackberry to tell her not to go to his office under in circumstances. On his way to the car, he is stopped by Parks. Parks says he needs to take Graham in for questioning. Graham says to give him ten minutes, then meet him at his office.
-Graham gets a call from Kim, saying she was the one behind everything. She had a computer call with an altered voice to threaten. Kim said he better get to his office. Only ten minutes left. When they get there, he is confronted by Mike. Mike found Lauren’s bag in his desk with a gag and Halifain. He asks Graham if he killed Dale Morris. And he asks if he attacked Lauren. Graham’s phone rings. Kim tells him to come to the Stern building. 5 minutes.
-Graham leaves a message for Parks telling him to meet him the Stern building when he gets there. When Graham enters the building, he looks up to see dean Carol Johnson hung upside down from the seventh floor. When he gets up the stair, Kim is gagged in a chair and standing next to her is Lauren Douglas. She is actually Lydia Daugherty, Jon Forster’s defense attorney. She has a gun to Kim’s head and she is holding the rope that is suspending dean Carol Johnson. She makes Jack confess on tape that he coached the witness in the trial and that he altered evidence. She says it’s a present for Jon. She calls the prison to talk to Jon. Jack says that calls can be monitored. She is not falling for his little ploys. He says he could just move his eyes and look at the FBI agent with his gun pointed at her. She says she won’t fall for his games. She points the gun to shoot Graham, but Parks fires off a round first. Lydia falls and so too does dean Carol Johnson. Graham jumps and grabs the rope before she falls. He unhooks the rope from Lydia, and she falls to her death. Parks makes his way over and helps pull the dean.
-As Graham is untying Kim, the phone rings. Forster is on the other line. He asks if she finished Graham off. She says that she is unavailable. He tells Graham that he has no idea who he is messing with. Graham says that Forster took advantage of a confused young girl, and made her believe his lies. Forster begins laughing. Graham says he can’t believe he had her kill so he could live. He had her join Graham’s class so she could have unlimited access to all his files and would be able to plan the copy cat murders together. Forster tells Graham what he plans to do after getting out, then asks to speak to Lydia. Graham says she is dead, and he only has 12 hours to live.
-Flash forward. Graham is in his class room speaking to some students and other guests. He announces that Jon Forster has been executed. It flashes to scenes of Forster’s execution. He is laughing insanely. Graham says that it is not a time to celebrate, nor is it retribution. It is merely a road to justice.
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