88 Minutes (2008)

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Rating: R
Release Date: Apr 18, 2008
Running Time: 107 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Germany
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A college professor, who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat that says he has only 88 minutes to live. To save his life, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, which include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover and a serial killer on death row.
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Kim Cummings
Lauren Douglas
Jon Forster
Mike Stempt
Shelly Barnes
Carol Lynn Johnson
Frank Parks
Sara Pollard
Guy LaForge
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rating  PETER TRAVERS - May 1, 2008

Try as he might to "hoo-ha" some life into this stupendously stupid thriller, Al Pacino can't disguise the desperation of this CSI wanna-be. As Jack Gramm, an FBI forensic shrink who also teaches at a Seattle university, Pacino must ward off a horny student (Alicia Witt), a serial killer (Neal McDonough) on death row who arranges a string of copycat murders to win a reprieve, and a mystery caller who warns him he has only eighty-eight minutes to live. Sounds like a full day, what with Jack's… Continued

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88 Minutes? How about five? That's about all you're going to be able to stomach watching this hackneyed mess.

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Oh, where to begin the insanity? Let's start with a serial killer breaking into two young women's apartment, killing one of them but getting scared off before he can finish off the other one. At the trial of Jon Forster (Neal McDonough), the possible serial killer, testimony from celebrated forensic psychiatrist Dr. Jack Gramm (Al Pacino) sends the guy to the gas chamber--even… Continued