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Nick Of Time
on DVD (1995)
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| Starring: |
Johnny Depp, Christopher Walken, Charles S. Dutton, Peter Strauss, Roma Maffia, Gloria Reuben |
| Director: |
John Badham |
| Studio: |
PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time: |
85 mins |
| Certificate: |
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| User collections: |
Depp-Mania! |
| Genres: |
Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Languages: |
English |
| Dubbed: |
French, German, Italian, Spanish |
| Hearing-impaired: |
English |
| Subtitles: |
Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish |
| Released: |
22/04/2002
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Brief synopsis of Nick Of Time
In John Badham's NICK OF TIME, Johnny Depp stars as Gene Watson, a mild-mannered, widowed accountant, and the father of six-year-old Lynn (Courtney Chase). While in Los Angeles's Union Station, they are abducted by a mysterious couple posing as police officers, Mr. Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia). They give Gene a loaded gun and these orders--assassinate the "flaming liberal" governor of California (Marsha Mason) within the next 90 minutes, or they will kill his beloved daughter. Gene reluctantly agrees, and is taken to the Bonaventure Hotel where the governor is making an appearance. Tension mounts as the clock ticks, and Gene must outwit his conniving kidnappers. Shot in real time, the action of the movie is documented in the actual 90 minute running time of the movie. As Gene faces his gruesome task, minutes slip away, creating a palpible tension and a breathtaking reminder of every agonising second. Walken is at his devilish best, wickedly tormenting the innocent hero. Reminiscent of Hitchcockian heros, Gene is an ordinary man trapped in an extraordinary situation, forced to act before it is too late.
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Critics Reviews
Radio Times
Accountant Johnny Depp is told he has 90 minutes, and six bullets, to murder the governor of California or his daughter will be killed, in director John Badham's weak Hitchcockian suspense thriller. Supposedly playing out the shock predicament in real-time, with lots of close-ups of clocks — it clearly isn't real-time, however — Badham consistently fluffs the tension by accenting the preposterous plot contrivances rather than creating any real empathy with the plight of the characters. Even the usually engaging Depp can't rescue this thriller.
Halliwell's Film Guide
A thriller in which real time and the film's time are the same, but it still drags at times, failing to create the necessary suspense, owing mainly to the spiralling absurdity of its narrative.
Time Out
No sooner has accountant Depp disembarked at the Los Angeles railway station than he's separated from his infant...
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