Release: Nineteen Minutes

Nineteen Minutes
Genre: Drama
Director: Matt Ross
Writer: Joshua Collins
Based on the novel by Jodi Picoult
Cast: Elsie Fisher, Alex Garfin, Kate Hudson, Pedro Pascal, Aaron Eckhart, Melanie Lynskey, Timothy Simons, Peyton Wich, Jahi Di'Allo Winston, Sadie Stanley, Ian Patrick




Budget: $27,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $19,580,029
Foreign Box Office: $10,348,928
Total Profit: -$25,341,587

Reaction: It probably should not come as a surprise that a drama about a school shooting failed to attract a large audience at the box office. While it lost a decent chunk of money, it could have been worse - even if it does restart the trend of novel adaptations losing money after Revival's much needed profits.

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"Nineteen Minutes is certainly emotionally manipulative, but it mostly works without becoming too distracting. I had some trouble with some of the casting and the time jumps though. For a film about a school shooting, that was probably the least interesting sequence in the film. The present day courtroom drama was much more engrossing than the shooting or the lead up to it." - Cooper Wilson, The Earl Hays Press

"Nineteen Minutes means well, but gets in its own way repeatedly. The jumps in time are not handled particularly well or effectively, with several flashbacks feeling mostly pointless. On top of all that, Elsie Fisher - who has made a career out of playing young outcasts - feels woefully miscast as the pretty, popular Josie. In fact, pretty much all of the kid characters were unlikable leading up to the school shooting, causing the film to lose the impact of the ensuing violent deaths." - George Ryan, Philadelphia Inquirer

"Joshua Collins' script for Nineteen Minutes is probably too faithful to the novel at times, giving this film some of the same pacing issues I recall from that read. Matt Ross' careful direction of the film helped soften up some the film's many minor issues. The end result isn't a groundbreaking or life-changing film experience, but it should play well with audiences that like emotional drama films." - Ken Hammerschmidt, Washington Post

Rated R for disturbing violent content and some sexual content - all involving teens