88 Minutes | 
| Actors: Al Pacino, Leelee Sobieski
Studio: Sony Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  47 reviews
Format: Ac-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Dvd-video, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 99
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 107 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: COLD23578D
UPC: 043396235786
EAN: 0043396235786
ASIN: B001C5LLLY
Theatrical Release Date: 2007
Release Date: September 16, 2008
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Product Description
A riveting thriller about a forensic psychologist racing to prevent his own murder. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/16/2008 Starring: Al Pacino Leelee Sobieski Run time: 107 minutes Rating: R
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Al Pacino looks startled through much of 88 Minutes, as though taken by surprise at being cast in a thriller that must've first passed across the desks of Clint Eastwood and Harrison Ford. Still, Pacino brings his usual oomph to the role of a Seattle forensic psychiatrist, whose testimony secured the death sentence for a crazy serial killer (Neal McDonough). Wouldn't you know it, the very day the killer is sentenced to die, a copycat "Seattle Slayer" is on the loose, and Pacino starts getting ominous phone calls telling him the exact time of his own death. Tick tock: it's 88 minutes away. The film then serves up more red herrings than a Stalingrad fish fry, as possible culprits pop up every five minutes or so (among them an attractive group of med-school students played by Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, and Benjamin McKenzie). Lapses in logic abound, but if you hunker down and zone in on Pacino's weary-eyed, poufy-haired professionalism, you can enjoy the goings-on. (They even make him run up flights of stairs, which one would have thought beyond him now.) Seattle's frequent stunt double, Vancouver, B.C., stands in as a location, and Jon Avnet supplies the slick direction. The cast is talented (including Amy Brenneman), leading you to guess that a lot of people will do anything just to work with Al Pacino. And you've got to admire Pacino's chutzpah at sharing the screen with statuesque actresses such as Brenneman and Sobieski; they tower over him, but he still holds his own. --Robert Horton
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 Review of Used DVD December 1, 2008
Renee Cameron (Houston, TX)
I received this DVD in excellent condition. It was like brand new. I also enjoyed the movie very much.
 A Waste for Pacino November 29, 2008
J. Perkins (Connecticut)
This was a stupid movie. Al Pacino's talents are way above this script and plot. Had Keanu Reaves or Tom Cruise been in it, I'd probably have had enough sense to stop watching it after the first ten minutes, as they are as one dimensional and as trite as this film.
88 Minutes Doesn't Deserve 108 Minutes of Your Time November 25, 2008
James C. Gantt II (Charleston, SC)
About the most complex contribution Jon Avnet's 88 Minutes makes is that it somehow manages to be both predictable and surprisingly disappointing. Writer Guy Scott Thompson, whose other contributions include the TV show Knight Rider (2008), provides a fairly simple plot involving a highly successful celebrity psychiatrist (celebrity in that he's well-esteemed in his small Seattle pond, not celebrity in that he councils the rich and famous) who is slowly stalked (via cell phone!) by a creepy techno-altered voice that may or may not be coming from a copy-cat killer. Pacino, who is entirely miscast here, approaches his Dr. Gramm as if to say, I have played this character a thousand times. Now, what's my line? Typically he is stimulating and brings energy to even the most 2-dimensional roles, yet here he seems only exhausted and disheveled.
Dr. Gramm, despite being quite successful profiling crime scenes and serial killers, has terrible boundaries with his students. He flirts with them, drinks with them, and is out one night with them at a bar celebrating the fact that a serial killer (Neal McDonough) he helped send to death row has lost an appeal for clemency. Soon someone is dead and then we all arrive with Pacino staring out at his classroom, wondering which one of the clean-cut, pretty, model-like actresses is the killer.
It isn't long before we have car explosions and lots of people, including the unknown techno-voice killer, scrambling around and haunting each other on the phone. People jump from behind dark corners in garage stairwells, cryptic taunts miraculously appear, and then characters seem to suddenly get invented and written into the script for no other reason than to serve as "yet another unexpected suspect" who we all know didn't really do it. Or maybe they did. By the time we are head-first into this thing we don't really care. By the time the real killer is finally presented, we are delighted - not because we are surprised but because then we know that this convoluted and contrived mess that has all of the logic and brilliance of a 90s B-flick (see Sliver) is finally coming to an end. At some point I actually grew as exhausted as Pacino looks and lost interest and started counting how many times his character's phone rang, say, within 5 minutes. That was far more entertaining than the 108 minutes lost watching 88 Minutes.
If only it would have lasted just 88 minutes. November 23, 2008
C. Smith (Seattle, WA)
That was 88+ minutes that I will never get back. Very disappointing from Al Pacino. Will he accept just any role now? The idea and premis were good but the execution was horrible.
Yes, it is that bad November 22, 2008
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You've heard it's bad. The movie critics said it, people who saw it said it, Amazon reviewers said it. But it's Al Pacino and Jon Avnet, so you wonder, how bad can it be? You buy it or rent it, and sit through one of the most tedious and pathetic movies ever made. The plot is ridiculous; the writing, atrocious, and not even the most talented actor and director on the planet could save this ridiculous film. The only interesting question regarding this movie is, how did it get made? Why did Avnet and Pacino agree to work with one of the worst screenplay ever written? I'd really like to know.
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