New York Minute (film)
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| Directed by | Dennie Gordon |
| Produced by | Denise Di Novi Ashley Olsen Mary-Kate Olsen Robert Thorne Executive Producer Alison Greenspan co-producer Christine A. Sacani Jill Zimmerman |
| Written by | Emily Fox Adam Cooper Bill Collage |
| Starring | Ashley Olsen Mary-Kate Olsen Eugene Levy |
| Music by | George S. Clinton Michael Muhlfriedel |
| Cinematography | Greg Gardiner Sandi Sissel |
| Editing by | Roderick Davis Michael Jablow |
| Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
| Release date(s) | United States: May 1, 2004 (LA Premiere) United Kingdom: July 30, 2004 |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30,000,000 (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | $21,289,826 |
| Preceded by | The Challenge |
| Followed by | The President's Daughters |
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New York Minute is a 2004 comedy teen film starring Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, and Eugene Levy. It was directed by Dennie Gordon and released on May 7, 2004. In the film Mary-Kate and Ashley play twins with opposing personalities who have a series of misadventures around the city of New York.
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[edit] Plot
The story follows Jane and Roxy Ryan, twin sisters with opposing personalities. Jane (Ashley Olsen) is an academic obsessed with order and planning, while Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen) is a school truant who is interested only in rock music and her band, in which she is the drummer. The story happens over the course of one day. Jane's goal is to get to Columbia University in New York City in order to make a presentation at a scholarship competition in which she can gain a scholarship to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom. Roxy's goal is to skip school and watch the production of a Simple Plan music video, which is also taking place in New York. She is followed by truancy officer Max Lomax (Eugene Levy). Due to a series of unfortunate incidents, the twins become involved with a piracy ring and must avoid both Lomax and this criminal gang and still make it to the University on time to make the speech. Through the series of misadventures, the twins come to realize that they have been allowing their relationship to drift apart and that they need to make greater efforts to do things together.
[edit] Cast
- Ashley Olsen - Jane Ryan
- Mary-Kate Olsen - Roxy Ryan
- Eugene Levy - Max Lomax
- Andy Richter - Bennie Bang
- Riley Smith - Jim, the bike messenger
- Jared Padalecki - Trey Lipton
- Dr. Drew Pinsky - Dr. Ryan
- Darrell Hammond - Hudson McGill
- Andrea Martin - Senator Anne Lipton
- Alannah Ong - Ma Bang
- Mary Bond Davis - Big Shirl
- Bob Saget - Himself
- Jack Osbourne - Justin
- Joey Klein - Truant at pool
- Neil Crone - Officer Strauss
- Jonathan Wilson - Train conductor
- Boyd Banks - Ticket window guy
- Silver Kim - Asian guy with chip
- Robert Williams - Feds
- Domenic Cuzzocrea - Homeless guy
- Suresh John - Deli clerk
- Kent Staines - Doorman
- Jon Benjamin - I Love N.Y. vendor
- Frank Bosangue - Con Ed supervisor
- Jo Chim - Ma Bang's assistant
- Lindsay Leese - Customer at Ma Bang's
- Pierre Bouvier*, Chuck Comeau*, Sebastien LeFebvre*,
David Desrosiers*, Jeff Stinco* - Simple Plan - Alison Northcott - Video shoot groupie
- Balázs Koós - Video shoot announcer
- Trip Phoenix, Philip Duke - Old record school execs
- Kenny Robinson - Head security
- Todd William Shroeder - Massive security guard
- Colin Penson - Security guard
- Damon D'Oliveira - News broadcaster
- Eric Woolfe - Male nurse
- Warren Belle - Mickey, the cab driver
- Arnold Pinnock - Big Shirl's male beautician
- Tasha Ricketts, Stephanie Samuels,
Marsha Williams, Wendy Adeliyi - Big Shirl's beauticians - Donna-Marie Christie, Jamila Fleming, Shakira Harper,
Lurline Lucas, Faustina Owusu-Ansah - House of Bling customers - John Hemphill - Tim Brooger
- Kathy Laskey - Steffi Brooger
- Garen Boyajian - Manjhur
- Jazz Mann - Auditorium T.A.
- Maggie Butterfield - Auditorium moderator
- Gala, Krissy - Reinaldo (Senator Lipton's dog)
- Frank Welker - Reinaldo's vocal effects
* Playing himself.
[edit] Reception
New York Minute was not a box office success nor a critical success. Richard Roeper gave the film a "thumbs down" rating on the television show Ebert & Roeper. Aggregate movie review web site Rotten Tomatoes listed a critic score of 13% for the movie.
The film's opening weekend earned $5.96 million, the third lowest ever for any film playing at over 3,000 theatres.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ New York Minute. Boxofficemojo.com (2008). Retrieved on 2008-04-12.
