15 Minutes (2001) Starring Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks, Kim Cattrall, James H, 116 minutes,
5.4/10 (53 votes)
About the Movie: Fifteen Minutes partners Robert De Niro and Saving Private Ryan's Edward Burns in a thriller satire on America's "reality TV" industry. De Niro plays celebrity detective Eddie Fleming, who must reluctantly work with arson investigator Jordy Warsaw (Burns) when a grisly fire is discovered to conceal a murder. This is the work of Emil (Karel Roden) and Oleg (Oleg Taktarov), East European psychos bent on a maniacal spree of killings. All of these are videotaped by Emil, who renames himself after his hero Frank Capra, in a perverse tribute to the US of A, where "no one is responsible for what they do!". Soon the duo decide to sell their footage to Kelsey Grammer's creepily shameless frontline TV journalist. As a pair of loons whose scariness is just the right side of cardboard villainy, Roden and Taktarov steal the movie as well as their camcorder. However, the central theme of voyeurism and video murder was dealt with far more effectively in the 1992 Belgian movie Man Bites Dog and, while the action tears along in explosive fashion, it does so at the expense of both plausibility and the anti-media satire, which seems hitched crudely onto the bumper of what is essentially a satisfying but conventional blockbuster thriller. --David Stubbs
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15 Minutes (Teaser Trailer) (118) From New Line Cinema, the studio that
brought you "Pride & Glory" & John
Hertzfeld, the writer & director of "2
Days In The Valley", comes this gripping
& tense look at how two killers will
do anything for their "15 Minutes" of fame
and how two men will do anything to stop
the madness!
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and
Emil (Karel Roden, Hellboy, Bulletproof
Monk) come to New York City to pick up
their share of a heist score, Oleg steals
a video camera and starts filming their
activities, both legal and illegal.
When they learn how the American media
circus can make a remorseless killer look
like the victim and make them rich, they
target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective
Eddie Flemming (Oscar winner Robert
DeNiro) and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal
Jordy Warsaw (Edward Burns, The Holiday,
She's The One), the cops investigating
their murder and torching of their former
criminal partner, filming everything to
sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top
Story."
Also starring Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer
("Fraiser", "Cheers"), Melina Kanakaredes
("CSI:NY", The Long Kiss Goodnight) and
featuring special appearances by Kim
Cattrall, David Alan Grier, & Oscar
winner Charlize Theron, "15 Minutes" is a
clever & suspenseful action thriller
where some people will kill to be in the
spotlight!
MPAA Rated R for strong violence,
language, & some sexuality.
Released by New Line Cinema, an division
of Warner Bros. Pictures, an TimeWarner
company.
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