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Mini's First Time | 
| Actors: Alec Baldwin, Nikki Reed
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 34033
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 91 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: HBOD93598D
UPC: 026359359828
EAN: 0026359359828
ASIN: B000HC2LJE
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
Release Date: October 24, 2006
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| Editorial Reviews:
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
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Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 05/06/2008
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 quite exciting, but with shades of overdoing it August 20, 2008
AIROLF (USA)
A 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.
 Sheer trash February 18, 2008
M. D. Fonseca (Thunder)
This 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.
Can't keep it up, but moments of brilliance September 26, 2007
K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
4 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, and truly five-star in most every way. It's way un-pc, but feels like authentic Malibu phoniness, with all that implies. Affairs, alcoholism, drugs, etc, and kids who are far too clever for their own good.
Nikki Reed comes on strong and doesn't let up; only the script lets her down, as the deliciously wicked comedy of the first third suddenly disappears and we are stuck with the predictable twists of a modern noir that is lacking the crackling dialogue and pace of the opening.
Still, a great first film from Guthe, another winner from Baldwin (this performance feels a little edgy in light of this year's all-too-public family squabbles), a surprisingly funny Carrie-Anne Moss (What would Neo say?), and above all one helluva star turn from the underage but far too mature Nikki Reed. Watch this gal; she'll get there if the hollywood demons don't chew her up first. She may be too smart for them, but you never know...
If this had kept up its early pace, it would be a true classic. Luke Wilson's nothing-ventured-and-less-gained performance highlights the failngs of the last half of the film. It gets boring; when you start this good, you gotta follow through!
Nonetheless, the opening indicates that Guthe may yet turn in a truly great film, and his script has moments of genius at moments.
Worth seeing for the first 30 hell-bent minutes.
 Great Movie! September 20, 2007
Kristina Strauss
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
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.
The Sort Of Movie You Feel Silly For Watching But Keep Watching Closely All The Same September 7, 2007
Ellie---Penny Dreadful---Reasoner (Galway & Home Again!)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Yep, my title sums it up. This flashy flick had a movie of the week quality that suited its waaaay over the top far-fetched storyline about a spoiled teenaged LA call girl who, though already rich and pampered, does whom it takes to get what she wants. Starring just about every celebrity in Hollywood, or at least giving the feeling that it did (we're talking Nikki Reed, Carrie-Anne Moss, Luke Wilson, Jeff Goldblum, Alec Baldwin, Nana Visitor and more) this campy tale of a scheming, hot-blooded nymphette's plot to get rid of her unstable never-was mother, an aging actress wanna-be, and hook up with her momentarily more useful stepfather, played by Alec Baldwin, comes off like Nabokov writing for a trashy tabloid. A little bit funny, always slightly ridiculous, and just a tad suspenseful, this is a perfect example of why B-movies can sometimes be so much fun. Okay, admittedly Mini's First Time isn't Oscar material but it kept me watching, and chances are you too will stick around to see how it comes out!
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