15 Minutes

Name: 15 Minutes
Released: 1999-2-16
Cast: Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks, Melina Kanakaredes

15 Minutes

R
2h 0m
1999

32%

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When a celebrity homicide detective and a brash, young fire marshal race against time to stop a pair of publicity seeking murderers, a high-profile newscaster buys videotapes of the gruesome crimes--turning the killers into instant media stars. Now, just how

Director:

John Herzfeld

Producer:

Keith Addis, David Blocker, John Herzfeld, Nick Wechsler, Claire Rudnick Polstein

Writer:

John Herzfeld

Cast:

Robert De Niro, Edward Burns, Kelsey Grammer, Avery Brooks, Melina Kanakaredes, Karel Roden, Oleg Taktarov, John DiResta, Darius McCrary, Kim Cattrall

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

32%

Critics Consensus: As critical as it is about sensationalism in the media, 15 Minutes itself indulges in lurid violence, and its satire is too heavy-handed to be effective.

Reviews

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Kaleem Aftab

An interesting, not to say timely, twist on Andy Warhol's fifteen minutes of fame theory. Unfortunately, the execution of the thrills doesn't live up to the film's conceit.

It's pretty clear it's the audience who the filmmakers think are the sheeps here.

Alley flasher, pubescent paperboy, toy with a broken squeaker. Edward Burns sounds like those things, but plays none of them here. He's fire marshal Jordy Warsaw. That sounds like a Pauly Shore character; Shore would arguably act with greater conviction.