...a big-screen feature with a direct-to-video plot.
New York Minute (2004)
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Reviews Counted:114
Fresh:14
Rotten:100
Average Rating:3.5/10
Consensus: Feels more like a calculated product designed to expand the Olsens' brand than an actual movie. Also, it contains ethnic stereotyping and sexual innuendo.
Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for mild sensuality and thematic elements
Runtime: 1 hr 31 mins
Genre: Comedies
Theatrical Release:May 7, 2004 Wide
Box Office: $14,018,364
Synopsis: Today is the biggest day in the super-organized life of uptight overachiever Jane Ryan (ASHLEY OLSEN). She's due to give a major speech at Columbia University for a competition to win a... Today is the biggest day in the super-organized life of uptight overachiever Jane Ryan (ASHLEY OLSEN). She's due to give a major speech at Columbia University for a competition to win a prestigious scholarship to Oxford University. Meanwhile, her rebellious sister Roxy (MARY-KATE OLSEN) is planning to ditch school and go backstage at a Simple Plan music video shoot in Manhattan, where she'll slip her demo tape to the band's A & R team. Despite having so little in common and so much emotional distance between them, the adversarial sisters reluctantly journey together to the Big Apple, but their plans go wildly awry when a mix-up involving Jane's all-important dayplanner lands them in the middle of a shady black market music piracy scheme. Sidetracked, sideswiped and hotly pursued from Chinatown to Harlem by whacked-out truancy officer (EUGENE LEVY) and a wannabe gangster (ANDY RICHTER), Jane and Roxy reluctantly join forces and find unexpected romance with a charming Senator's son (JARED PADALECKI) and a handsome bike messenger (RILEY SMITH). If Jane doesn't recover her dayplanner - and the crucial speech inside it - she can kiss her college scholarship goodbye. If Lomax finally catches up with Roxy, she'll be drummed out of high school for good. Roxy and Jane seem to have everything going against them…but anything can change in a New York Minute! Joining the cast of the New York Minute cast are DARRELL HAMMOND (Saturday Night Live) as a business executive with bad luck; ANDREA MARTIN (My Big Fat Greek Wedding) as an influential senator; MARY BOND DAVIS (Broadway's Hairspray) as a beautician with a bag of blinged-out tricks; radio personality DR. DREW PINSKY (Loveline) making his feature film debut as Roxy and Jane's dad; and JACK OSBOURNE (The Osbournes), in his feature film debut as Roxy's band manager. [More]
Starring: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Riley Smith
Starring: Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen, Eugene Levy, Riley Smith, Jared Padalecki, Andy Richter, Darrell Hammond, Andrea Martin, Jack Osbourne, Dr. Drew, Mary Bond Davis
Director: Dennie Gordon
Director: Dennie Gordon
Screenwriter: Emily Fox, Adam Cooper, William Collage
Producer: Denise DiNovi, Robert Thorne, Christine Sacani, Ashley Olsen, Mary-Kate Olsen
Composer: George S. Clinton
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Reviews for New York Minute
Comes with an inherent disclaimer that nobody but 11-year-old girls are going to dig it.
As Ashley whines while slogging with Mary-Kate through a sewer: "There is no bright side!"
There is not a minute of it that makes sense. Cause and effect are meaningless. There is no real humor. It is a dour trainwreck of a faux-screwball movie.
Here's a movie aimed at young girls that must have been created with the 'tired businessman' -- or at least the hormonally charged older brother -- squarely in mind.
Even more insipid than you'd guess, Minute is infrequently made bearable by the cutie-quotient of its richer-than-sin leads.
It's generally good policy to be wary of entertainers who are more famous for their product lines than actually performing.
A packed-to-the-rafters theater (including 82 males) can't be wrong...
It's like watching your neighbor's modestly talented daughters perform -- they're dutiful and hard-working, but oddly uncomfortable considering that they've been in front of cameras since the age of one.
Mary-Kate and Ashley sprint through Manhattan on the run from a truant officer and a limo driver in this crisp and professional teenage caper comedy.
There's a sense that it's straining to reach the core mom-daughter audience that made Freaky Friday a success last year.
The cast is cute and the action is colorful, but the comedy isn't as captivating as it sets out to be.
OK, it's not like I'm ready to join the local chapter of the Ashley and Mary-Kate fan club, but I admit it: I kind of liked New York Minute.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen ... have evolved into nimble comic actresses, with expressive voices and sharp timing.
A coy, frantic attempt at screwball comedy, lightly seasoned and more than a little gummy.
Mary-Kate and Ashley Olson are not actresses and they are not movie stars. What they are is a brand.
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