New York Minute (film)

New York Minute
Movie Poster for New York Minute
Directed by	Dennie Gordon
Written by	Emily Fox Adam Cooper Bill Collage
Produced by	Denise Di Novi Ashley Olsen Mary-Kate Olsen Robert Thorne Executive Producer Alison Greenspan co-producer Christine A. Sacani Jill Zimmerman
Starring	Mary-Kate Olsen Ashley Olsen Eugene Levy Andy Richter Riley Smith
Cinematography	Greg Gardiner Sandi Sissel
Edited by	Roderick Davis Michael Jablow
Music by	George S. Clinton Michael Muhlfriedel
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release dates	United States: May 1, 2004 (LA Premiere) May 7, 2004 United Kingdom: July 30, 2004
Running time	91 min.
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$30,000,000 (estimated)
Box office	$21,289,826

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.

It is the Olsen twins' first theatrical film since It Takes Two.

Plot

The story follows Jane and Roxy Ryan, twin sisters with opposing personalities. Jane (Ashley Olsen) is an academic obsessed with order and planning and is a straight A student, Captain of the Cheerleading Team and is the 'mom' of the family, while Roxy (Mary-Kate Olsen) is a school truant who is interested only in rock music and her band,in which she is the drummer,she is a complete rebel and gets detention on a regular day basis. The story 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 in which she can gain a scholarship to Oxford University in the United Kingdom. Roxy's goal is to skip school and watch the production of a Simple Plan music video, which is also taking place in New York. 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 efforts to do things together.

Cast

• Ashley Olsen as Jane Ryan
• Mary-Kate Olsen as Roxy Ryan
• Eugene Levy as Max Lomax
• Andy Richter as Bennie Bang
• Riley Smith as Jim, the bike messenger
• Jared Padalecki as Trey Lipton
• Dr. Drew Pinsky as Dr. Ryan
• Darrell Hammond as Hudson McGill
• Andrea Martin as Senator Anne Lipton
• Alannah Ong as Mic Bang
• Mary Bond Davis as Big Shirl
• Bob Saget as Himself
• Jack Osbourne as Justin
• Joey Klein as Truant at pool
• Neil Crone as Officer Strauss
• Jonathan Wilson as Train conductor
• Boyd Banks as Ticket window guy
• Silver Kim as Asian guy with chip
• Conrad Bergschneider and Robert Williams as Feds
• Domenic Cuzzocrea as Homeless guy
• Suresh John as Deli clerk
• Kent Staines as Doorman
• H. Jon Benjamin as I Love N.Y. vendor
• Frank Bosangue as Con Ed supervisor
• Jo Chim as Ma Bang's assistant
• Lindsay Leese as Customer at Ma Bang's
• Pierre Bouvier*, Chuck Comeau*, Sébastien Lefebvre*,
  David Desrosiers*, Jeff Stinco* as Simple Plan
• Alison Northcott as Video shoot groupie
• Balázs Koós as Video shoot announcer
• Trip Phoenix, Philip Duke as Old record school execs
• Kenny Robinson as Head security
• Todd William Shroeder as Massive security guard
• Colin Penson as Security guard
• Damon D'Oliveira as News broadcaster
• Eric Woolfe as Male nurse
• Warren Belle as Mickey, the cab driver
• Arnold Pinnock as Big Shirl's male beautician
• Tasha Ricketts, Stephanie Samuels,
  Marsha Williams, Wendy Olunike Adeliyi as Big Shirl's beauticians
• Donna-Marie Christie, Jamila Fleming, Shakira Harper,
  Lurline Lucas, Faustina Owusu-Ansah as House of Bling customers
• John Hemphill as Tim Brooger
• Kathy Laskey as Steffi Brooger
• Garen Boyajian as Manjhur
• Jazz Mann as Auditorium T.A.
• Maggie Butterfield as Auditorium moderator
• Gala, Krissy as Reinaldo (Senator Lipton's dog)
• Frank Welker as Reinaldo vocal effects

* Playing himself.

Reception

New York Minute was neither a box office success nor a critical success. 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 film.

Box office

The film's opening weekend earned $5.96 million, the fifth lowest ever for any film playing at over 3,000 theatres. The film eventually went on to gross $14.07 million domestically and $7.22 million overseas.

External links

• New York Minute
• New York Minute at IMDb
• New York Minute at AllMovie
• Mary-kateandashley.com
• Warnerbros website
• New York Minute at Rotten Tomatoes