15 Minutes is a 2001 film starring Robert De Niro, Edward Burns and Karel Roden. It is about a homicide detective and a fire marshal who must stop a couple of Eastern European murderers from videotaping their killing and becoming sensationalized by the media. Melina Kanakaredes and Kelsey Grammer, both well-known for their TV performances, co-star. Its title is a reference to the famous Andy Warhol quotation, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." After getting out of prison, ex-convicts Emil Slovak and Oleg Razgul travel to New York City to meet a contact in order... to claim their part of a bank heist in Russia . Within minutes of arriving, Oleg steals a video camera. They go to the brownstone apartment of their old partner Milos Karlova and his wife Tamina, and demand their share. When Milos admits that he spent it, an enraged Emil stabs and kills him with a kitchen knife, then breaks Tamina's neck as Oleg tapes it with his new camera. The couple's neighbor, Daphne Handlova , witnesses everything, but she escapes before they can get to her.
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| Release date: | March 1, 2001 |
| Directed by: | John Herzfeld |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 120 Minutes |
| Producer: | Keith Addis, David Blocker, John Herzfeld, Nick Wechsler |
| Editor: | Steven Cohen |
| Music by: | J. Peter Robinson, Anthony Marinelli |
| Cinematography: | Jean-Yves Escoffier |
| Screenplay by: | John Herzfeld |
| Estimated budget: | $42,000,000 |
| Genre: | Thriller, Action |