• Genre: Drama, Suspense/Thriller
  • Release Date: 04/18/2008
  • Running Time: 108 mins
  • Director: Jon Avnet
  • Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman, Deborah Kara Unger, Benjamin McKenzie, Neal McDonough, Brendan Fletcher, Michal Yannai
  • Producer: Randall Emmett, George Furla, Avi Lerner, Jon Avnet, Gary Scott Thompson
  • Writer: Gary Scott Thompson
  • Distributor: Sony Pictures/TriStar
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Box Office

  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, 17.5 million, 52.5 million
  3. Quarantine, 14.2 million, 14.2 million
  4. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  5. Body of Lies, 13.1 million, 13.1 million
  6. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  7. Eagle Eye, 11.0 million, 70.5 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist, 6.5 million, 20.8 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. The Express, 4.7 million, 4.7 million
  12. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  13. Nights in Rodanthe, 4.6 million, 32.4 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Appaloosa, 3.3 million, 10.9 million
  17. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  18. The Duchess, 3.3 million, 5.6 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. City of Ember, 3.2 million, 3.2 million
Movie Title, Weekly Earnings, Total Earnings

88 Minutes

Jon Avnet’s cheesy new thriller is 105 minutes long, and I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing scenery. Alas, it’s worse than that. Though his hair looks like Mount St. Helens preparing to blow, Pacino’s going for world-weary, heavy-lidded ennui as a Seattle forensic psychiatrist and professor in symbiotic thrall to the death-row serial killer (cyborgian Neal McDonough) he once helped put away. Dark secrets flow out of Jack Gramm’s past in perfect parallel with the blood that pours out of the drugged, trussed, and hung young female victims of the copycat killer who bedevils his case against Forster. If Gary Scott Thompson’s laughably expository screenplay and Pacino’s eye-rolling weren’t enough to flag Gramm’s blooming paranoia, a thumping score gilds the lily, along with endless cutaways to the faces of his various nubile adjuncts, frozen in attitudes of studied ambiguity. With its lumbering black humor and phony pretense to moral complexity, 88 Minutes is an ugly specimen. There is, however, one way in which, all unawares, the movie works like a charm--as a twisted essay on the aging man’s fear of and desire for the young female body. We may have to sit through worse films to come this year, but with any luck, there’ll be none as guilelessly, idiotically misogynist as this one. — Ella Taylor

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