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New York Minute (2004)

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Reviews Counted: 114 Fresh: 14  Rotten:100 Average Rating: 3.5/10
 
Consensus: Feels more like a calculated product designed to expand the Olsens' brand than an actual movie. Also, it contains ethnic stereotyping and sexual innuendo.
 

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Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins

Theatrical Release: May 7, 2004 Wide

Box Office: $14,018,364

Synopsis: Today is the biggest day in the super-organized life of uptight overachiever Jane Ryan (ASHLEY OLSEN). She's due to give a major speech at Columbia University for a competition to win a prestigious scholarship to Oxford University. Meanwhile, her rebellious sister Roxy (MARY-KATE... Today is the biggest day in the super-organized life of uptight overachiever Jane Ryan (ASHLEY OLSEN). She's due to give a major speech at Columbia University for a competition to win a prestigious scholarship to Oxford University. Meanwhile, her rebellious sister Roxy (MARY-KATE OLSEN) is planning to ditch school and go backstage at a Simple Plan music video shoot in Manhattan, where she'll slip her demo tape to the band's A & R team. Despite having so little in common and so much emotional distance between them, the adversarial sisters reluctantly journey together to the Big Apple, but their plans go wildly awry when a mix-up involving Jane's all-important dayplanner lands them in the middle of a shady black market music piracy scheme. Sidetracked, sideswiped and hotly pursued from Chinatown to Harlem by whacked-out truancy officer (EUGENE LEVY) and a wannabe gangster (ANDY RICHTER), Jane and Roxy reluctantly join forces and find unexpected romance with a charming Senator's son (JARED PADALECKI) and a handsome bike messenger (RILEY SMITH). If Jane doesn't recover her dayplanner - and the crucial speech inside it - she can kiss her college scholarship goodbye. If Lomax finally catches up with Roxy, she'll be drummed out of high school for good. Roxy and Jane seem to have everything going against them…but anything can change in a New York Minute! Joining the cast of the New York Minute cast are DARRELL HAMMOND (Saturday Night Live) as a business executive with bad luck; ANDREA MARTIN (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) as an influential senator; MARY BOND DAVIS (Broadway's Hairspray) as a beautician with a bag of blinged-out tricks; radio personality DR. DREW PINSKY (Loveline) making his feature film debut as Roxy and Jane's dad; and JACK OSBOURNE (The Osbournes), in his feature film debut as Roxy's band manager. [More]

Genre: Comedies

Starring: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Riley Smith, Jared Padalecki

Director: Dennie Gordon
Screenwriter: Emily Fox, Adam Cooper, William Collage
Producer: Denise DiNovi, Robert Thorne, Christine Sacani, Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen
Composer: George S. Clinton

DVD Info

Release:

Aug 17, 2004

[DVD Details]

DVD Features:

  • Region 1
  • Keep Case
  • Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85

Audio:

  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
  • Dolby Digital 5.1 - French

Additional Release Material:

  • Featurette - 1. IN A NEW YORK MINUTE
  • Gag Reel
  • Two Alternate Endings
  • Behind The Scenes Side Show

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2/4

Most viewers will likely be checking their watches, probably wishing this Minute were gone in 60 seconds.

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11/02/06
Mary Lasse
Christianity Today
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06/24/06
Time Out
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05/26/06
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Combustible Celluloid
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12/06/05
Film Threat
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12/19/04
Hanh Nguyen
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2/5

[The stars] never attempt to do anything outside their limited range; like, for example, act.

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11/04/04
Anthony Del Valle
Las Vegas Mercury
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4/10

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10/07/04
Tony Medley
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3/10

Stanley Kubrick once said, 'If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.' Obviously, he had never seen the script for New York Minute.

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09/02/04
John J. Puccio
DVDTown.com
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Histrionically speaking, the Olsens couldn't be called twin peaks, but they're getting there.

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08/08/04
Harry Haun
Film Journal International
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2/5

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08/07/04
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon
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2/5

Separately the characters are annoying; together it's unnervingly like watching one actress playing twins.

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07/30/04
Angie Errigo
Empire Magazine
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2/5

A hectic, overcooked sugar rush of a movie.

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07/20/04
Neil Smith
BBC
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1/5

Esta atrocidade poderia representar um embaraço para todos os envolvidos, caso estes tivessem algum senso de ridículo – o que, a julgar por este longa, não parece ser o caso.

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07/19/04
Pablo Villaca
Cinema em Cena
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0/5

If this is family entertainment, why do the Olsen twins spend 25 percent of the movie naked?

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06/01/04
Stephen Himes
Flak Magazine
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0/4

Who would have thunk the twins from The Shining should have their own movie?

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05/28/04
Collin Souter
eFilmCritic.com
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2.5/4

Mayhem rules and this slapstick comedy offer a lot of action, sudden turns, and some wild and crazy stuff.

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05/25/04
Vince Koehler
Entertainment Spectrum
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...too much eye-liner and not enough talent...

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05/20/04
Tony Toscano
Talking Pictures (U.S.)
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New York Minute is a deep incision, part of our ongoing national lobotomy.

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05/16/04
Martin Scribbs
Mixed Reviews
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The biggest cinematic human rights violation since Bad Boys II.

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05/15/04
Ed Gonzalez
City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul
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...the Olsens crassly demonstrate that the quickest way for young women to dress for success is to wear as little as possible.

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05/14/04
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly
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