88 Minutes Page #4

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
394 Views


Miss. Douglas. Right this way.

- Right in here.

- I'm sorry.

- Yeah?

- I left a word for Frank.

Okay.

There's been another incident.

The Forster's case it's your thing,

right?

Wrong, it's not my thing.

I saw your testimony

on Court TV.

Yeah, right?

Fill those out.

Yeah, I follow

the big crime cases.

They fascinate me.

When Dr. Jack Gramm

takes the stand.

You come up with things

I didn't think off.

- This here, this is just a job until...

- Until you pass the police's exam.

See? How did you know that?

Just a guess.

That's the thing about you.

You know how to put two plus two

and you make it four.

Or five.

There are times that you know.

I'm not gonna be a campus cop

to a bunch of snob rich kids.

Especially these rich b*tches...

My car is been analyzed.

The window was smashed.

There's a number on the body.

Look into it.

Dr. Gramm?

Dr. Gramm?

This is Johnny D'Franco,

from campus security.

Can you get me Lynn Johnson?

- Jack Gramm Associates.

- Shelley?

- Did you find Frank?

- No, not yet. What the hell is going on?

Well, I received a threaten phone call

saying I have 88 minutes to live.

11:
45h this morning,

and my time is up.

Pull out my risk assessment file.

Anybody rating "e" and above...

I want you to cross reference

against Forster.

And when you find Frank...

ask him if Sara Pollard or any of my

students ever visit Forster in prison.

Sara Pollard?

She's the girl I met at the party

last night.

Call Wong Lee...

and have him make a list

of all the phone numbers...

Forster called

on the last 72 hours.

Where should fax the list?

My apartment.

And run a check on Kim.

Kim?

Yeah, just do it, okay?

Hello.

Jack.

- Damn it.

- The car is out front.

- Drive Squaid.

- Good.

You're okay?

You look a little freaked out.

Yeah. You have...

- a battery for your phone?

- Yeah, I do.

- What the hell is this?

- What are you doing?

Goddamn it, what is this?

What are you doing with a gun

in your purse?

Jesus, why don't you just announce

to the world?

I don't think they've heard you

in English Department.

- Why the gun, Kim?

- For protection.

- Where did you get it?

- I have a permit. My dad is a cop.

- Why you need a gun?

- I don't. My dad thinks I do.

Why?

I have a crazy ex boyfriend,

okay, Jack?

Oh. Jesus. God.

Yeah, I really know how to pick one

or what?

The judge said if he threats anyone

he goes back to jail.

Back to jail? What jail?

Prison, actually.

Walla Walla.

That's where Forster is.

Come on, let's go.

Special Agent Parks.

Frank, it's Jack.

I'm at the university campus.

We got a problem here.

Someone attacked one of my students and

tried to knock her out with Halothane.

- That's the Seattle slayer.

- I know, hold on.

Give me a second.

Yeah. There's a security guard

on this campus, his name is D'Franco.

I don't like him.

He's suspicious.

I want you to take him in

for questioning, okay?

Also get a warrant

and search his place.

Jesus Christ, Jack.

You know I can't just get a warrant

without sufficient grounds.

Just get a warrant, Frank,

come on.

Do you think he is the slayer?

- To link Forster on the outside?

- It's possible.

Listen, I checked the names

that Shelley, of the students.

And there's no record of Lauren Douglas,

Kim Cummings or Sara Pollard...

but you gonna love this.

Mike Stempt visit Forster four times

over the last six weeks.

Mike Stempt. What was his reason?

Research.

He had written permission.

No, no, no.

I didn't give him any permission.

Written or otherwise.

Well, it's your signature, Jack.

I got a copy right here.

Hold on.

That... Hold on a second.

That ex boyfriend of yours.

What is his name?

Guy LaForge.

Run a check on a parole

named Guy LaForge.

He served time at Walla Walla

with Forster.

And I'll call you back

when I get to my apartment.

All right.

Do you think that Frank is working

with Forster?

Someone is.

- I got you Johnson.

- Yeah.

They've found a backpack

in your lecture hall.

What? With a bomb in it?

No. A photo, dynamite,

and a time with a note addressed to you.

What did it say?

Tic-tac.

What does it mean, Jack?

I call you back.

- You are okay?

- Yeah.

What the hell was that?

Probably somebody

trying to scare us.

Who do you think would do

something like that?

Does your boyfriend drive

a motorcycle?

Yeah.

Except he's not my boyfriend

anymore.

Yeah.

How does it feel to know

you won't live through another night?

56 minutes.

Tic-tac, doc.

Let's go.

Guy LaForge.

He isn't a boyfriend, is he?

The only thing that got me out of Texas

was my books marks.

And when I left for college,

I had that, but not much else.

So I tried to fit in.

I drank too much.

Thought too little.

And I met Guy.

And he was this English...

working class rock star

wanna be.

And I fell for him.

And I married him...

when I graduated.

He didn't take to well to my aspirations

for higher education.

In fact he didn't really want me to

leave the house. And when I disobeyed...

he got filthy drunk

and he beat me.

That's when he got arrested

and I divorced him.

I've been trying to make up

for lost time ever since.

- You know, Forster is trying to kill me.

- Forster is in prison.

Yeah, I know. He's got someone

on the outside trying to...

to do the job.

He's gonna kill me.

If I don't get him first.

Whoever is working with Forster

must be close to you.

- A friend even.

- I don't have many friends.

That's a plus.

It's a real pleasure to look at everyone

you know as your would be murderer.

Paranoia is a normal state of mind,

huh?

Where is Errol?

I don't know. I'm a temp.

The agency sent me.

Dr. Gramm?

There's a package for you.

How did you know my name?

I don't.

It was a question.

Yeah.

- There's no returning address on this?

- No.

Who delivered it?

A carrier. But there was

another person here at the same time...

- Iooking for you.

- Who?

- What was his name?

- No, I didn't get it.

When he walked in I was on the phone

with the plumber.

- He said he would be right back.

- Okay.

You wanna me pull

the surveillance tapes?

That shouldn't take more than an hour

to get someone up here with the keys.

- I don't have an hour.

- No?

Hey, you know, he was also wearing

leathers. He had a motorcycle helmet.

That's Guy. He was here.

If he comes back,

don't send him up to my apartment.

Yeah.

- Hi, Dr. Gramm.

- Hi, Eva.

How did Guy know

we're going to be here?

How does even know

where you live?

Oh, Walther P99.

That would blow a hole

through anything.

What?

I grew up around guns.

Maybe he didn't know I was gonna

be here, maybe that's why he showed up.

I'll verify where he went after

the party last night.

There's a Lauren Douglas to see you.

Should I send her up?

Okay, send her up.

He got that right, didn't he?

Hey, what's that?

This?

It's a chemical detector.

It sniffs out vapors.

Custom agencies are using it.

And?

It's not a bomb.

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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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