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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Violence, Not For Children, Adult Language, Children in Peril Movie Release: 1995 DVD Release: 06/22/1999 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 28 mins Studio: Paramount Members Wishing: 0 Genres: Thriller, Psychological Thriller See Also: Nick of Time [Circuit City Exclusive] [Checkpoint]

A stranger pulled into a deadly scheme races against time to save his daughter in this thriller. Gene Watson (Johnny Depp) is an accountant who comes to L.A. with his ten-year-old daughter Lynn (Courtney Chase) to attend a funeral. On the street, Gene and Lynn are pulled aside by Mr. Smith (Christopher Walken) and Ms. Jones (Roma Maffia), who flash what look like police badges and usher them into a van. Gene soon discovers that he's been kidnapped, and his captors have an unusual demand -- if Gene does not murder Gov. Eleanor Grant (Marsha Mason) within 75 minutes, his daughter will be killed. Gene now has just an hour and a quarter to tip off the authorities, spare Gov. Grant, and find out what Smith and Jones are trying to do, along with saving his daughter's life. He finds a much-needed ally in one-legged shoe-shine man Huey (Charles S. Dutton). Most of the action in Nick of Time occurs in "real time," meaning that the passage of time on screen matches that of real life, as the frequent shots of clocks and watches will attest. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Johnny Depp - Gene Watson
Christopher Walken - Mr. Smith
Charles S. Dutton - Huey
Peter Strauss - Brendan Grant
Roma Maffia - Ms. Jones

When an L.A. accountant's child is abducted and the only way to get her back is to become a political assassin, tension unfolds in real time in this relentless nail-biter from director John Badham. Presented in 1.85:1 widescreen and offering audio rendered in closed-captioned English Dolby Digital 5.1, this release also offers alternate closed-captioned English Dolby Digital Surround and French Dolby Digital Surround tracks as well. Extra features are limited to theatrical trailers. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide