88 Minutes

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  • Opened April 18, 2008 
  • 1 hr 48 min
  • R | disturbing violent content, brief nudity and language

  • Parents: Common Sense Media says Iffy for 16+. More on child suitability

  • Al Pacino stars as Dr. Jack Gramm, a college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI. When Gramm receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live, he must use all his skills and training to narrow down the possible suspects, who include a disgruntled student, a jilted former lover, and a serial killer who is already on death row, before his time runs out. Full synopsis

  • Cast: Al Pacino, Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski, Amy Brenneman, William Forsythe
  • Director: Jon Avnet
  • Genres: Suspense/Thriller

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San Francisco Chronicle
| Mick LaSalle

If you're like me and think that any Pacino movie is sort of worth seeing, so long as he never says, "Hoo-ha," then 88 Minutes won't be a total disappointment. Read full review

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Philadelphia Inquirer
| Steven Rea

88 Minutes proves itself to be a maddeningly mediocre, ineptly manipulative "real-time" thriller. Read full review

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Miami Herald
| Rene Rodriguez

This is easily one of the silliest, most preposterous thrillers ever made, and the only reason it didn't go straight to video has to be that it stars Pacino. Read full review

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Boston Globe
| Wesley Morris

I've seen Pacino over the edge. This is not it. He looks pooped and pickled. Maybe being the only thing standing between a megaplex opening and a trip straight to the $4.99 bin at Target wiped him out. Read full review

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Al Pacino in "88 Minutes."