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 | Mary-Kate Olsen Ashley Olsen Eugene Levy Andy Richter Riley Smith |
| 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) May 7, 2004 United Kingdom: July 30, 2004 |
| Running time | 91 min. |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30,000,000 (estimated) |
| Gross revenue | $21,289,826 |
| Preceded by | The Challenge |
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.
It is the Olsen twins' first theatrical film since It Takes Two.
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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 and is a straight A student, Captain of the Cheerleading Team and is the 'mom' of the family, 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,she is a complete rebel and gets detention on a regular day basis. 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 Oxford 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 as Jane Ryan
- Mary-Kate Olsen as Roxy Ryan
- Eugene Levy as Max Lomax
- Andy Richter as Bennie Bang
- Riley Smith as Jim, the bike messenger
- Jared Padalecki as Trey Lipton
- Dr. Drew Pinsky as Dr. Ryan
- Darrell Hammond as Hudson McGill
- Andrea Martin as Senator Anne Lipton
- Alannah Ong as Mic Bang
- Mary Bond Davis as Big Shirl
- Bob Saget as Himself
- Jack Osbourne as Justin
- Pierre Bouvier*, Chuck Comeau*, Sébastien Lefebvre*,
David Desrosiers*, Jeff Stinco* as Simple Plan
* Playing himself.
[edit] Reception
New York Minute was neither 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 film.
[edit] Box office
The film's opening weekend earned $5.96 million, the fifth lowest ever for any film playing at over 3,000 theatres. The film eventually went on to gross $14.07 million domestically and $7.22 million overseas.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "New York Minute". Boxofficemojo.com. 2008. http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=newyorkminute.htm. Retrieved 2008-04-12.
[edit] External links
- Official website
- New York Minute at the Internet Movie Database
- New York Minute at Allmovie
- Mary-kateandashley.com
- Warnerbros website
- New York Minute at Rotten Tomatoes
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