Out of Time (2003)

A Florida police chief must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion.

Director:

Carl Franklin

Writer:

David Collard (as Dave Collard)

Stars:

Denzel Washington, Sanaa Lathan, Eva Mendes

4 wins & 7 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Denzel Washington	...	Matt Lee Whitlock
Eva Mendes	...	Alex Diaz Whitlock
Sanaa Lathan	...	Ann Merai Harrison
Dean Cain	...	Chris Harrison
John Billingsley	...	Chae
Robert Baker	...	Tony Dalton
Alex Carter	...	Cabot
Antoni Corone	...	Deputy Baste
Terry Loughlin	...	Agent Stark
Nora Dunn	...	Dr. Donovan
James Murtaugh	...	Dr. Frieland
Peggy Sheffield	...	Judy Anderson
Evelyn Brooks	...	Judy's Mom
Eric Hissom	...	Hotel Clerk
Tom Hillmann	...	Living Gift Salesman (as Tom Hilmann)

Storyline

Matt Whitlock, the police chief of the small town of Banyan Key, Florida, is separated from his wife, Alex, a police homicide detective in MIami. Matt's been having an affair with Ann Merai Harrison, a woman who's separated from her abusive husband, Chris, and who says that she has cancer. When her doctor tells her of a new expensive treatment, Matt decides to give her the nearly half a million dollars in an evidence lock up that he seized from a local drug bust. When Ann and her husband turn up dead only days after naming Chief Whitlock as beneficiary on a million dollar Life insurance policy, things start heating up for Whitlock as the evidence his wife Alex is gathering stacks up against him. And as if things couldn't get worse, the D.E.A. now want the drug money a.s.a.p. Anxiety runs high for Whitlock as he scrambles to figure out who has set him up and also recover half a million dollars all while trying not to break a sweat or draw any suspicions. He's a man who is way out of ...

---

Plot Keywords:

cell phone | wife murders husband | woman murders a man | shooting a woman | deception | 

---

Taglines:

The Clock Is Ticking...

---

Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

---

Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sexual content, violence and some language.

Details

Official Sites:

MGM

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

3 October 2003 (USA)

Also Known As:

Tiempo límite

Filming Locations:

Boca Grande, Florida, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$50,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$16,185,316, 5 October 2003, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$40,905,277, 30 November 2003

Company Credits

Production Co:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM),Original Film,Monarch Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

105 min 114 min

Sound Mix:

DTS Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

One of the production assistants on the film was a young Reese Witherspoon.

---

Goofs

(at around 30 mins) After the scene where Matt and a Chris have a beer, Matt meets Ann as a thunderstorm brews in the distance over the water. She apologizes for the previous night when Matt witness Chris abusing her says that he must me mad and draws near him. Just after Matt playfully touches her face you can see that he says something that was edited out. Her reaction after a camera change is a slight laugh, which confirms he said something. It appears as though he says "That's right" after she says "You must really be mad at me."

---

Quotes

Agent Strark: How you doing?
Matt Lee Whitlock: Busy.
Agent Strark: ...
[...]

---

Crazy Credits

The name Burt Ward appears as "Boy Wonder Executive Producer"

---

Connections

References 60 Minutes (1968)

---

Soundtracks

Emboscada
(2002)
Written by Vico C.
Performed by Vico C. (as Vico C)
Published by Filosofo Music Publishing
Courtesy of EMI Latin, a division of Capitol Records, Inc.

User Reviews

a DVD-production

This should have gone straight to DVD. Perhaps it did(?)

It has the look - for the most part it's full of close ups and the camera work is full of fast and slow movements for no obvious reason - all of that will look terrible on the big screen but is pretty much standard for TV. And since there are so many close ups, neither achieves the punch that a more restrained use would provide - and at the same time the film doesn't have to show the lack of production values.

The plot is too predictable and the suspense consists mostly of eerie music that we recognize from countless TV productions also - it does not work.

Only for die-hard fans of the always reliable Denzel Washington.