Storyline
When Eastern European criminals Oleg and Emil come to New York City to pick up their share of a heist score, Oleg steals a video camera and starts filming their activities, both legal and illegal. When they learn how the American media circus can make a remorseless killer look like the victim and make them rich, they target media-savvy NYPD Homicide Detective Eddie Flemming and media-naive FDNY Fire Marshal Jordy Warsaw, the cops investigating their murder and torching of their former criminal partner, filming everything to sell to the local tabloid TV show "Top Story."
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Cast
Sebastian Roché, Brantley Bush, Phillip V. Caruso, Barry Primus, Mindy Marin, Edward Burns, Karel Roden, Vera Farmiga, Michael Arthur, Darius McCrary, Alan Cohen, Kelsey Grammer, David Alan Grier, Vladimir Mashkov, Dwayne Adway, Lennox Brown, Charlize Theron, Robert De Niro, Ritchie Coster, William H. Burns, Joseph Alfieri, Paul Herman, Gabriel Casseus, Marco Khan, Roseanne Barr, Oleg Taktarov, Melina Kanakaredes, Anton Yelchin, Zuhair Haddad, Kata Dobó, Joe Lisi, Kim Cattrall, John DiResta, Rose Colasanti, James Handy, Riley G. Matthews Jr., Everton Lawrence, Scott Dillin, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Avery Brooks, Mark Cheek, Bruce Cutler, Noelle Evans, Tygh Runyan, Bobby Field, Kurt Andon, Rikki Klieman, Dorit Sauer, Toni Kalem, Peter Arnett, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Jamie Burton-Oare, Giovanni Capitello, Ben Fiore, Philippe Hartmann, George F. Miller, Ellen Whyte, Irina Gasanova, Christine Claibourne, Stephen Davis, William Stanton, Louis F. Garcia, Mike Camello, Barry Blueian, Ashton Dane, Gail Greaves, Lynette Ruiz, Elma Vann, Olga Morgunova, Haik Garibyan, Jorge H. Guzman, George Poulos, Sylvia Lopez, Bryan Foster, Spero Stamboulis, Julieta Espinoza, Macy Merced, Tracey Mulqueen, Dominic Maglione, Ron Wall, Sophia Alexis, Celeste Gregoire, Janean Christine Mariani, Leda Mulholland, Floyd Resnick, Erica Taylor
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Reviews
75
Chicago Tribune
The surprise here isn't that 15 Minutes isn't a masterpiece; it's that the movie works at all.
75
Chicago Sun-Times
A cynical, savage satire about violence, the media and depravity. It doesn't have the polish of "Natural Born Killers" or the wit of "Wag the Dog," but it's a real movie, rough edges and all, and not another link from the sausage factory.
60
Rolling Stone
Big, loud and lurid, but no less entertaining for that.
50
New York Daily News
The Czech Republic and Russia, the respective homes of Emil and Oleg, should sue.
38
Baltimore Sun
The unearned air of moralism that wafts through 15 Minutes pollutes its entertainment value.
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