44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out is a 2003 American film directed by Yves Simoneau. The film premiered on the FX Network in June 2003. The plot, about bank robbers held at bay by the Los Angeles Police Department, is based on an actual incident which occurred February 28, 1997 known as the North Hollywood shootout. Homicide detective Frank McGregor tracks a violent duo of bank robbers: Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. and Emil Mătăsăreanu. The film opens with scenes of police officers getting ready for work in the morning interspersed with scenes of the robbers Phillips and... Mătăsăreanu preparing to loot an armoured bank truck. Officer Donnie Anderson is mourning the death of his policeman father. He displays a lack of attention on his SWAT assignment and is forced by his superior to take time off. Meanwhile, the staff at the North Hollywood branch of Bank of America are preparing for start of business. Phillips and Mătăsăreanu park outside the branch and wait for the armoured truck. They are frustrated when the truck does not turn up and decide on robbing the branch instead .
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| Release date: | 2003 |
| Directed by: | Yves Simoneau |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 103 Minutes |
| Genre: | Action |