44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out (2003)

Directed by

Yves Simoneau

Genre

action film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

R

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 117 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film dramatizes a real 1997 bank robbery and gun battle in Los Angeles. It shows the robbery, the robbers' armored preparations, and the police officers' desperate and under-armed response over 44 minutes.

tensechaoticgrittyfast-pacedharrowingurgentstarkfocused

What happens

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out is a 2003 American crime action docudrama television film directed by Yves Simoneau and written by Tim Metcalfe. The film stars Michael Madsen, Ron Livingston, Mario Van Peebles, Andrew Bryniarski, and Oleg Taktarov. It is a semi-fictional dramatization of the 1997 North Hollywood shootout, and follows the perspectives of bank robbers Larry Eugene Phillips Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu, as well as various Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers involved in the shootout. 44 Minutes premiered on FX on June 5, 2003 to mixed reception. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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