New York Minute (film)

New York Minute

Movie Poster for New York Minute
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
Kate Ah Shay
Starring Mary-Kate Olsen
Ashley Olsen
Eugene Levy
Andy Richter
Jared Padalecki
Riley Smith
Andrea Martin
Music by George S. Clinton
Michael Muhlfriedel
Cinematography Greg Gardiner
Sandi Sissel
Edited by Roderick Davis
Michael Jablow
Production
company
Di Novi Pictures
Dualstar Entertainment
C.O.R.E. Digital Pictures
Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures
Release dates
  • May 4, 2004 (Tribeca)
  • May 7, 2004
Running time
91 minutes
Country United States
Language English
Budget $30 million
Box office $21,289,826

New York Minute is a 2004 American teen comedy 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 New York City. New York Minute reunited Mary-Kate and Ashley with their Full House co-star, Bob Saget. It is the Olsen twins' first theatrical film since the 1995 film It Takes Two. It was also the last film released by Dualstar Entertainment before they launched into dormancy.

Plot

Over a 24 hour period, 17-year-old sisters Jane and Roxy Ryan, adversaries who begrudgingly journey together from their Long Island home to New York, where the uptight overachiever and Straight A student Jane (Ashley Olsen) is due to deliver a speech to qualify for a prestigious college scholarship abroad. Meanwhile, laid-back punk-rock rebel Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen) hopes to get backstage at an underground music video shoot for punk-pop band Simple Plan so that she can slip her demo tape to the group. Roxy and Jane’s plans go awry when a mix-up involving Jane’s day planner lands them in the middle of a shady black-market transaction. Pursued by an overzealous truant officer (Eugene Levy) and accused of kidnapping a dog belonging to a senator, the Ryans must find a way to work together to thwart the forces threatening to jeopardize Jane’s college dreams and ship Roxy off to a convent school. Romantic interest comes in the form of a Senator's bad boy son (Jared Padalecki) and a bike messenger (Riley Smith).

Cast

Reception

New York Minute was neither a box office success nor a critical success. Roger Ebert & Richard Roeper gave the film a "two thumbs down" on the television show Ebert & Roeper. Aggregate movie review web site Rotten Tomatoes listed a critic score of 11%.

Box office

The film's opening weekend at #2 behind Walt Disney Pictures' Home on the Range earned $5.96 million, the sixth lowest ever for any film playing at over 3,000 theatres. The film eventually went on to gross $14.07 million at the North American domestic box office and $7.22 million internationally.[1]

References

  1. "New York Minute". Boxofficemojo.com. 2012. Retrieved 2012-03-24.

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