New York Minute (film)
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| New York Minute | |
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| Image:NYM.jpg 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 |
| Starring | Ashley Olsen Mary-Kate Olsen Eugene Levy |
| 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) | Image:Flag of the United States.svg May 1 2004 (LA Premiere) Image:Flag of the United States.svg May 7 2004 Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg July 30 2004 |
| Running time | 91 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $30,000,000 (estimated) |
| Official website | |
| All Movie Guide profile | |
| IMDb profile | |
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. The plot to the film is very similar to that of the twins' more recent movies involving criminals plots and new love interests.
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[edit] Plot
The story follows twin sisters Jane and Roxy Ryan, two twins with opposing personalities. Jane (Ashley Olsen) is an academic obsessed with order and planning, while Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen) is a school truant who is only interested in rock music and her band, in which she is the drummer. The plot of the film 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. Roxy's goal is to skip school and attend the production of a Simple Plan music video, which also happens to be taking place in New York; however, 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 effort to do things together.
[edit] Cast
- Ashley Olsen - Jane Ryan
- Mary-Kate Olsen - Roxy Ryan
- Eugene Levy - Max Lomax
- Andy Richter - Bennie Bang
- Riley Smith - Jim, the bike messenger
- Jared Padalecki - Trey Lipton
- Dr. Drew Pinsky - Dr. Ryan
- Darrell Hammond - Hudson McGill
- Andrea Martin - Senator Anne Lipton
- Alannah Ong - Ma Bang
- Mary Bond Davis - Big Shirl
- Bob Saget - Himself
- Jack Osbourne - Justin
- Joey Klein - Truant at pool
- Neil Crone - Officer Strauss
- Jonathan Wilson - Train conductor
- Boyd Banks - Ticket window guy
- Silver Kim - Original chip carrier at the train platform
- Conrad Bergschneider, Robert Williams - Feds
- Domenic Cuzzocrea - Homeless guy
- Suresh John - Deli clerk
- Kent Staines - Doorman
- Jon Benjamin - I ♥ N.Y. vendor
- Frank Bosangue - Con Ed supervisor
- Jo Chim - Ma Bang's assistant
- Lindsay Leese - Customer at Ma Bang's
- Pierre Bouvier*, Chuck Comeau*, Sebastien LeFebvre*,
David Desrosiers*, Jeff Stinco* - Simple Plan - Alison Northcott - Video shoot groupie
- Balázs Koós - Video shoot announcer
- Trip Phoenix, Philip Duke - Old record school execs
- Kenny Robinson - Head security
- Todd William Shroeder - Massive security guard
- Colin Penson - Security guard
- Damon D'Oliveira - News broadcaster
- Eric Woolfe - Male nurse
- Warren Belle - Mickey, the cab driver
- Arnold Pinnock - Big Shirl's male beautician
- Tasha Ricketts, Stephanie Samuels,
Marsha Williams, Wendy Adeliyi - Big Shirl's beauticians - Donna-Marie Christie, Jamila Fleming, Shakira Harper,
Lurline Lucas, Faustina Owusu-Ansah - House of Bling customers - John Hemphill - Tim Brooger
- Kathy Laskey - Steffi Brooger
- Garen Boyajian - Manjhur
- Jazz Mann - Auditorium T.A.
- Maggie Butterfield - Auditorium moderator
- Gala, Krissy - Reinaldo (Senator Lipton's dog)
- Frank Welker - Reinaldo vocal effects
* Playing himself.
[edit] Reception
New York Minute was a box office failure. 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 movie.
The film's opening weekend earned $5.96 million, the lowest ever for any film playing at over 3,000 theatres.
[edit] Trivia
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- Filming took place in Toronto, Canada and New York City.
- The cell phone that the sisters use is a Danger Hiptop, better known as the Sidekick.
- The beautician at Big Shirl's House of Bling (whose booth is at the far left), is wearing pink Manolo Blahnik Okla boots.
- While pretending to be Jane and giving her speech, Roxy quotes the chorus from Complicated, a song by Avril Lavigne. Roxy refers to her as the fictitious Canadian Professor Avril Lavigne-stein.
- The school where the climax takes place at is Columbia University, in Manhattan, New York City.
- The song that Simple Plan performs is "Vacation".
- The film's opening weekend earned $5.96 million, the lowest ever for any film playing at over 3,000 theatres.
- The band Wakefield makes an uncredited appearance as Roxy's band at the end of the film. The drummer, Aaron Escolopio, appears as a producer of the band as Roxy is the drummer of the band in the film.
- Mary-Kate Olsen had to learn how to drive a stick-shift for when she was driving Roxy's Volkswagen Beetle.
- The movie ends in the traditional Olsen Twins-movie style, with the two sisters finding a boyfriend at the end of the film.
- The microchip, which contained the pirated music, is a SecureDigital memory card with a green holographic sticker where the traditional SD label would normally be placed.
- Jane and Roxy attended Syosset High School.
- Whilst in Chinatown, Jane and Roxy pass a street vendor selling boot-legged copies of "Holiday in the Sun 2", a fictitious sequel of Mary-Kate and Ashley's movie Holiday in the Sun.
[edit] Goofs
- Whenever Jane and Roxy use their Sidekick, they hold the back of the phone up to their face, when really the microphone and earpiece is on the front of the phone.
- Nassau County does not have a dedicated department to investigate and punish truancy.
- When the twins leap, mosh-pit style, into the crowd, they run towards the crowd, leap and do a half-rotation in midair so that they land on their backs. In the first angle, where they run towards the camera, they rotate in the opposite direction. (At one point their backs are towards each other.) While they are in the air, there is a cut to the reverse angle where they are seen leaping again. This time, they rotate in the same direction so that, at one point, one twin is facing the back of the other.
- When Trey is locked in the trunk of the car and finally let out (after the trunk was opened), you can see the emergency safety release handle hanging down, which would prevent him from actually being locked in the trunk.
- Jane is supposedly competing for a four year scholarship to Oxford, but the majority of English undergraduate degrees (especially those at Oxford) are only three years long.
- When Max Lomax chases the twins through New York with the RV, at one point the twins think they lost him, but then they find out he's next to them. They turn to the right to look at him, but you can in fact see through the rear window that the RV is actually still behind them. The taxi is also driving on the right lane, meaning the RV would have to be on the sidewalk.
- When Jane and Roxy are locked in the limo, there is a shot of them from outside the window and they are visible. In the next shot, and throughout the rest of the movie, the limousine windows are tinted.
- When the girls climb from the sewer into the street, their clothes suddenly appear clean and dry. When they enter the House of Bling, they are back to dirty and wet.
- Only the fronts of their clothes are dirty after they exit the sewer.
- When Dr. Ryan signs Roxy's "permission slip", he signs it in red pen. When Roxy traces it onto her chicken pox form, the signature seems to have been made with a black pen.
- When Roxy and Jane are in the convenience store and ask to use the bathroom, the clerk says it is for paying customers only so Roxy picks up a small Tootsie Roll candy. When the clerk takes it off the counter, it's a piece of Bazooka gum.
- In the beginning of the film after breakfast, the girls get into the purple Beetle. The iPod is already in the dock before they get it but in the next shot, Roxy puts the iPod into the empty dock.
- While on the train, the lid on Hudson McGill's coffee cup pops off by itself before Jane knocks the cup of coffee into his lap.
- When crowd surfing, one of the girls has her hands near her head, but in the next shot, they're on her skirt.
- Throughout the movie, the sisters discuss Jane's plan on attending college in London. Though we know that the college she is referring to is Oxford University, it is actually located in Oxford, not London.
- The sisters are from Nassau County in Long Island. They board the fictitious Nassau Railroad when they start their trip. The railroad depicted is more than likely the Long Island Railroad Line.
- On the train, when McGill opens the door to the lavatory, Roxy hits his chest, but he is seen grabbing his eye.
- When Roxy and Jane enter the House of Bling, the manhole lid seems to be closed, but when they cut to the scene where Lomax is looking for them, the lid is removed.
- When the twins get out of the car, after being chased by Lomax, their hair is a mess. While they are walking, their hair seems to be perfect. When they start their conversation, their hair is messy again.
- At the very end of the movie, when the band is playing and the twins are dancing with their boyfriends, the music stops at one point, while the musicians keep playing their instruments.
- When Simple Plan starts the show, the bass drum head shows a big Drum Workshop "DW" logo on top of the band logo. During the performance, the "DW" is no longer there. As soon as they stop and Lomax dives into the crowd, they flash back to the stage and the "DW" is back.
- At the very end of the movie, the guys from the band decide to start playing again and the song starts. You can hear the drums playing but no one is actually playing them.
- When the girls are in the taxi the leopard print steering wheel cover keeps disappearing and reappearing.
- When the girls are in the sewers, the water reaches their waists. Yet, when they climb from under the manhole cover and enter the House of Bling, their legs are completely dry.
- While Roxy and Jane are in the House of Bling, a Toronto Transit Commission bus drives by, although they are supposed to be in New York.
[edit] External links
- Mary-kateandashley.com
- Warnerbros website
- New York Minute at Rotten Tomatoesda:New York Minute
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