Your Three Minutes Are Up

Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973)

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Charlie is a sad sack of a man, working at a depressingly dull office job and stuck in a passionless engagement to a neurotic woman. One of the few bright spots in his life is his friend Mike, who seems to be living a life of carefree bohemianism.

Date of release
1973-08-01
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 33m
Genres
Comedy, Drama
Director
Douglas Schwartz

Casting

Interesting facts

Your Three Minutes Are Up is a 1973 American road movie starring Beau Bridges and Ron Leibman.

Production

The film was based on an original screenplay by actor James Dixon, who would go on to a long collaboration with filmmaker Larry Cohen as both actor and screenwriter. Director Douglas Schwartz would work extensively in television, where he would become best known as the creator of the long-running series Baywatch.

The film was mostly ignored when it came out in August 1973, but reviews were largely positive. Writing in The Washington Post, critic Gary Arnold called it “a surprisingly bright and enjoyable comedy, with serious undertones … The material takes funnier turns and develops more dramatic intensity than one anticipates.” In his Movie Guide, Leonard Maltin wrote that it was an “unpretentious film [that] says more about our society than many more ‘im…

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