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DVD : Mini's First TimeIn association with Amazon.com List Price: $14.98 Amazon.com's Price: $9.99 You Save: $4.99 (33%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1Audience Rating: R (Restricted) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0026359359828 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Label: Hbo Home Video Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Hbo Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: October 24, 2006 Running Time: 91 minutes Studio: Hbo Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2006 Sales Rank: 14734 MPN: HBOD93598D Related Items: Editorial Review: Description: Alec Baldwin is Martin, the wealthy, clueless stepfather of Mini (played by Nikki Reed). She's clever and has a healthy libido. And she's on a mission to stir up as much trouble as she can before her high school graduation. It's pretty clear where Mini got her conniving streak from-her mom (Carrie-Anne Moss) who spends more time partying than with her husband. Diana quickly becomes the third wheel when Martin and Mini's relationship escalates. A series of disturbing events at their posh modern house finally prompts the arrival of John (Luke Wilson) as a nosey detective on the case. Jeff Goldblum delivers another shot of star quality playing the cheesy TV show host who lives next door. Part Heather and part Lolita, Mini's a girl to watch out for in this delightfully warped comedy. Amazon.com: A nymphet with a grudge is usually a promising combination for a thriller, and Mini's First Time lays on the Lolita complex in the capable person of Thirteen star Nikki Reed. Having been a bad girl at a tender age in that one, Reed plays a slightly older but even more dangerous teen in Mini, as the lethal daughter of a wannabe Hollywood actress (Carrie-Anne Moss) who never was. Joining the ranks of professional escorts while still in high school, Mini has an unsavory "meet cute" with her future partner in crime: answering a call at a hotel, she sleeps with her surprised stepfather (Alec Baldwin). Pretty soon the odd couple is cooking up ways of getting the mother out of the picture--first by psychological war, then by, well, more extreme measures. Director Nick Guthe tries to draw out the Hollywood satire as well as the modern-noir elements, but the tone is too glib for the mix to sit well, and there isn't quite enough happening on either front for the movie to gain real traction. However, this HBO-produced picture does present a handful of delicious performances, led by Baldwin's marvelous portrait of a self-disgusted middle-aged man who might actually have fallen in love... the poor sap. Moss is a revelation in a comic role (she does an expert drunk act) and Jeff Goldblum contributes his uniquely discursive muttering to a few scenes. Luke Wilson plays a police detective so droll and laid-back he seems to have wandered in from a Wes Anderson film, or possibly an old episode of Columbo. --Robert Horton Average Rating:
 Rating: - Deliciously darkThis movie is FANTASTIC! It has Nikki Reed, the bad girl from Thirteen who has a knack for playing bad girls it seems. This movie is about an 18 year old who has a thing for trying everything once (firsts, as she calls them) and the things she does are both disturbing and hilarious. Carrie Ann Moss (aka Trinity from the Matrix) is so funny as Mini's mom, who is a former wannabe actress who drinks like a fish, chain smokes, and is a huge slut. If you like dark comedies and want to see a good one, ... Read More Rating:  - quite exciting, but with shades of overdoing itA delicious, albeit rather predictable thriller, this movie is as entertaining as it is well acted. With strong performances from Alec Baldwin and Carrie-Anne Moss as well as more promise from the now grown up Nikki Reid, this movie also has an amusing cameo by Jeff Goldblum. Rating:  - Sheer trashThis is a really bad movie. Badly directed, bad taste, bad acting by the leading actress. Every character is annoying and the few attempts at humor ares disastrous. Rating: - Can't keep it up, but moments of brilliance4 stars mainly for the superlative start; 3 stars thereafter Hoo boy, the first ten minutes are supersonic, the next twenty excellent, and then it quickly devolves into a standard crime flick. But still, the opening is a doozy... If you like a good cinematic rush, don't read any other reviews or the synopsis on the box, etc, and just enjoy the first third of this twisted little flick. The opening titles are quite ingenius, and herald an exposition that is razor sharp, brutally funny, ... Read More Rating:  - Great Movie!He should have known better. He knew it was wrong. Who wouldn't. So for his efforts he got what he deserved. Great Movie. If you love to see people get whats coming to them for doing something they know they shouldn't ,you really need to see this movie. Browse for similar items by category:
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