88 Minutes Page #2

Synopsis: In Seattle, the successful forensic psychiatrist and college professor Jack Gramm is in evidence since he was responsible for the condemnation of the serial killer Jon Forster, influencing the jury to sentence him to the death row. Jon accuses Jack of manipulation, inducing one witness and sister of one of his victims to testify against him. On the eve of Jon's execution, Jack receives a phone call telling him that he has only eighty-eight minutes of life, while a killer is copycatting Jon, killing women with the same "modus-operandi" and is investigated by Seattle Slayer Task Force. With the support of associate Shelly Barnes, an FBI agent, his friend Frank Parks, and his assistant Kim Cummings, Jack investigates some weird and problematic students, a security guard of the campus and the woman with whom he had one night stand.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Jon Avnet
Production: Sony Pictures Entertainment
  3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
17
Rotten Tomatoes:
5%
R
Year:
2007
108 min
$16,930,884
Website
371 Views


We're gonna play it for you now.

This message is for

Dr. Jack Gramm.

You got the wrong man.

Forster is innocent.

Please, don't hurt me anymore.

Don't hurt me anymore.

You gonna let me go, right?

You said you'd let me go.

I've read what you want me and...

Jack, it goes like that for about

an hour, before she dies.

Why do you think she was reading you

that message, Dr. Gramm?

Dr. Gramm?

Dr. Gramm?

In Dr. Gramm own words...

he analyzes a mental puzzle.

So they're no actual tangible pieces

per say.

He made a guess based on what

happened to Kate.

A guess based on his intuition,

a personal bias, ego.

And he sold that fiction lock, stock

and barrel to the jury.

What is it?

The girl that was killed

last night...

- was Dale Morris.

- Dale?

Oh, my God.

Okay, let's see...

We have our investigators coordinated

with the FBI...

I wanna know everything Dale Morris did

on the last 24 hours.

I wanna know where she went,

who she talked to.

Can you please have Dr. Gramm's car

ready, please. Thank you.

Thank you, Shelley.

For what?

- I don't know. For everything.

- I hate when you do this, Jack.

Every time you o this,

I think you gonna end up dead.

Just don't ask me to marry you

again.

Why not?

We're perfect for each other.

Yeah, yeah. Except that I'm gay

and you're commitment phobe.

That's why we're perfect.

Thanks, baby.

Dr. Gramm is a world known expert

in forensic psychiatry.

What is forensic psychiatry?

I mean, is not the same profession

that destroyed MacMorton's life...

by conjuring up images

of child molestation?

None of the charges were ever proved.

And the accused, though innocent...

was public crucified.

Jack, look. Look at the kite.

Jack, come here.

Yeah?

Hello?

Hello?

You have 88 minutes to live.

What?

You know how long 88 minutes can be,

don't you?

- That's 11:
45 am.

- Who is this?

- Tic-tac.

- Who the hell is this?

Tic-tac.

What were you saying?

- Jack Gramm Associates.

- Shelley?

I want you to set a trap and

and a trace on my cell.

What's going on?

I want you to contact

a wireless carrier...

and have them find out who made

that last phone call to me.

- Jack, I could be more helpful if...

- Just do it.

Just do it. I need it, all right?

And call me when you get it.

John Forster was an Eagle Scout, which

counts for his facility with ropes.

He also worked

in a veterinary office...

where he had experience using

the animal tranquilizer Halothane...

witch he's used to subdue

his victims.

Halothane. Sorry, I'm late again.

Thank you, Kim.

I see that the size of our class

is dwindling once again.

It could be because

you keep booting everyone.

My favorite student, Mike Stempt.

Okay. The legal distinction between

sanity and insanity rests upon what?

- Free will.

- The concept of the free will.

And what is

the most important thing...

one should remember

when entering a court-room?

That insanity it's a legal concept.

It's not a medical or psychiatric term.

But despite the fact that insanity

is a legal concept...

it doesn't mean

that someone is not sick.

Yes, Lauren.

Of all the serial killers

that I've interviewed and studied...

witch include our boy Bundy,

Dahmer, Gacy...

none of them was legally insane.

This is not saying

that they were normal.

I could argue that

they couldn't help themselves...

precisely because of

their mental disorder.

Well, if you wanna argue, Mike...

school of law is across campus.

Come on, Dr. Gramm.

It's ingenuous to pretend that

our presentations are not arguments.

We create a narrative of the crime

and the criminal.

Narrative is based on facts.

Based on logic.

We don't walk into a court-room

and advocate set scenes, do we?

We don't take sides.

We check our views at the door.

You mean you want us to pretend

we don't have an opinion?

We have opinions, Lauren,

but we just keep them to ourselves.

Share them with your dog,

if you have to.

Not with your parrot,

because it talks back.

It is that kind of logic that's gonna

get you in a law school across campus.

I've been there. I've done that.

Well, my condolences.

So, where is...

Dale Morris? She's absent.

I don't see her.

That's her first.

I didn't take her for a quitter.

Anyone who has her phone number,

please, contact me after class.

Okay.

Excuse me.

Shelley.

Tick-Tack, doc.

You have 83 minutes to live, Dr. Gramm.

Tick-Tack, doc.

So where was I?

Bundy versus Forster.

- What?

- Bundy versus Forster.

Thank you, Lauren.

You're welcome.

What we're gonna explore today is

the similarities and dissimilarities...

say, from Ted Bundy's motives,

let's compared them to John Forster's.

Dr. Gramm,

your phone is ringing.

- Jack, are you there?

- Shelley. What's going on?

The call was made

from a cell phone.

One of those you buy

and pay minutes for it.

Registered to whom?

- Look, I know you're in class, but...

- Yes, who is registered to it?

A Kate Gramm.

Jack, it's a common name.

It doesn't have to be your sister.

It's just a coincidence.

It's not a coincidence.

- It's not a coincidence.

- Jack, I'm loosing you.

Shelley?

Goddamn it!

Shelley?

Have you found out who my phone

is registered to by now?

Poor Kate. If it was Kate,

you'd like to call her?

I'm gonna find you, you here that,

you son-of-a-b*tch?

You're barking up the wrong tree

on this one.

I'm gonna find you.

She suffered

for such a long time.

You remember how long,

don't you?

You still feel guilty about her?

You feel guilty about

falsifying the evidence?

For lying under oath?

Tic-tac, doc.

You have 79 minutes to live.

Do you find this funny, Albert?

Who were you calling on

your phone?

Let me see your phone.

I was just...

Let me see that goddamn it phone.

I was just checking

the Mariners score.

- You were what?

- I was checking the Mariners score.

Okay, what is the score?

The score.

What's the damn score?

It's 3 x 1 Mariners.

B1.

- Oh, my God, I can't believe it.

- What does it mean? What's the problem?

Look.

What?

What's going on here?

It says that Dale Morris was murdered

last night.

- Is that true, Dr. Gramm?

- Yeah.

You knew it?

You knew it and you didn't tell us?

- You knew and asked for Dale's number?

- Is it the slayer?

- It could be.

- It could be?

Well, the police haven't released

any information yet.

- Are we all in danger?

- I can't believe you didn't tell us.

- Dr. Gramm?

- Lynn Johnson.

Someone just called

a bomb threat.

Everyone is to evacuate the building

immediately. Thank you.

Come on.

Grab your stuff.

I'll get your papers

of presentation, Tom.

I got the slides, Kim.

All students, faculty and staff

must evacuate the building.

I repeat.

Everyone must evacuate the building.

All students, faculty and staff

must evacuate the building.

I repeat.

Everyone must evacuate the building.

Please,

remain calm e do not run.

Proceed to the door

to the end of the campus.

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Gary Scott Thompson

Gary Scott Thompson (born October 7, 1959) is a screenwriter, television producer, and director. Thompson is most notable for his work on The Fast and the Furious starring Vin Diesel, the sequel 2 Fast 2 Furious, Hollow Man with Kevin Bacon, Split Second, 88 Minutes, starring Al Pacino, and K-911 and K-9: P.I.. As creator, showrunner, writer, and executive producer of NBC's hit series Las Vegas, Thompson also directed 4 episodes and made a brief appearance as a psychotherapy patient. Recently, Thompson wrote, co-developed, and executive produced NBC and TF1's Taxi Brooklyn. more…

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