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15 Minutes

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Original title

15 Minutes

Year

2001

Running time

119 min.

Country

United States

Director

John Herzfeld

Screenwriter

John Herzfeld

Cast

Music

Anthony Marinelli, J. Peter Robinson

Cinematography

Jean-Yves Escoffier

Producer

New Line Cinema, Industry Entertainment

Genre

Thriller | Television

Synopsis

Robert De Niro is a police detective investigating a brutal murder committed by a psychopath who was seeking his 15 minutes of fame. As media sources are pulled into the case, a sensational atmosphere develops. Television reporters and tabloid journalists devour and exploit each new detail, obscuring the truth.

Critics' reviews

"A cynical, savage satire about violence, the media and depravity. It doesn't have the polish of 'Natural Born Killers' or the wit of 'Wag the Dog,' but it's a real movie, rough edges and all, and not another link from the sausage factory. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)."

Roger Ebert: Chicago Sun-Times
"It's fleet- footed, merciless entertainment. But the mixture of laughs, bathos and brutality is a big turnoff."

A. O. Scott: The New York Times
"A first-rate Hollywood entertainment--at least if one can accept the schizophrenia of combining a cop/buddy action thriller with an angry satire about the shamelessness of the media."

Jonathan Rosenbaum: Chicago Reader
"Works just fine as a generic but fast-paced - and rather ugly - cop buddy flick."

Jonathan Foreman: New York Post
"The surprise here isn't that 15 Minutes isn't a masterpiece; it's that the movie works at all."

Mark Caro: Chicago Tribune
"The picture is more impressive as it goes along, revealing a symmetry of construction underneath the rudiments of a thriller"

Mick LaSalle: SFGATE
"Big, loud and lurid, but no less entertaining for that."

Peter Travers: Rolling Stone

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15 Minutes

2001

John Herzfeld

5.5

(11,495)