13 Minutes

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13 Minutes

PG-13

2021

1h 48m

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

Action

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The day starts out as usual for residents in the small Heartland town of Minninnewah. It's springtime and big storms are just part of life. Nothing to get worked up about... until they are. Inhabitants will have just 13 Minutes to get to shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving the inhabitants searching for their loved ones and fighting for their lives. In the wake of total devastation, four families must overcome their differences and find strength in themselves and each other in order to survive.

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Alisha Mughal

Globe and Mail

11/02/2021

Insofar as its saccharine, Lifetime-movie-esque depiction of the bigness of small-town lives, 13 Minutes works. But as a disaster movie, it fails.

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Frank Scheck

The Hollywood Reporter

10/27/2021

This effort will satisfy neither those looking for sensitive, character-driven drama nor disaster movie fans, the latter of whom will be disappointed by the relative lack of cinematic mayhem.

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Rex Reed

Observer

10/26/2021

3/4

Written and directed with an overload of talent by Lindsay Gossling, it rarely falters and leaves a viewer grateful for a whirlwind of character-driven suspense and humanity instead of the usual Hollywood cliches.

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Kat Hughes

THN

01/17/2022

3/5

Uncomplicated and undemanding, 13 Minutes is a fine way to while away an afternoon.

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Rich Cross

Starburst

12/01/2021

2/5

What's odd about the film's finale is the lack of interest that it has in the themes of redemption or renewal.

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Glenn Dunks

Glenn Dunks

11/21/2021

If Gossling was trying to say something about diversity in the mid-west as I suspect she was, the cringey dialogue needed to be far less on the nose and her characters not as frustratingly silly.

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Taylor

11/07/2021

Would of liked to see what happened to everyone in the end and what the aftermath was like make a second one

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David

11/06/2021

Good acting, story lines, great tornado affects as we live just a few miles of where part of movie filmed and regularly have tornados in our area.

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Dave H

11/03/2021

Not another stupid over the top Hollywood tornado movie. It’s focused on the characters and how real people in a small towns lives get turned upside down with a disaster. I liked the references to what to do and what not to do related to sever weather. It was a little slow at times and too much time was spent on the social issues part in my opinion. Still worth a watch but I’d wait for the stream.

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Lynne B

10/31/2021

Didn't like the ending. Seem to go backwards in the story. Loved the special effects and story lines.

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Gary

10/31/2021

Intense. Explored several contemporary social issues along with a suspenseful plot. Reminds us that despite all our technology and innovations, Mother Nature still reigns supreme.

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Dec 3

For the first time since Rotten Tomatoes' inception did I decide to come on here and make a profile just to review this hollow shell of a movie. It's called 13 minutes because that's about all the time they spend on the "disaster" part of this movie. I would call this the Lifetime movie version of a disaster movie - which is to say they spend more time on their (again) hollow shell cliché of characters rather than any actual survival. They spend the first third of the movie trying to get you to identify with characters that will not care about, seriously about 13 minutes on the disaster and then the rest of the movie trying to tug on your heart strings, with, again, characters we do not care about. Ugh.

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The day starts out as usual for residents in the small Heartland town of Minninnewah. It's springtime and big storms are just part of life. Nothing to get worked up about... until they are. Inhabitants will have just 13 Minutes to get to shelter before the largest tornado on record ravages the town, leaving the inhabitants searching for their loved ones and fighting for their lives. In the wake of total devastation, four families must overcome their differences and find strength in themselves and each other in order to survive.

Director: Lindsay Gossling
Producer: Travis Farncombe, Lindsay Gossling, Karen Harnisch
Screenwriter: Lindsay Gossling, Travis Farncombe
Distributor: Quiver Distribution
Production Co: Involving Pictures, Elevated Films (II)
Rating: PG-13 (Peril|Bloody Images|Some Strong Language|Thematic Elements)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Action
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Oct 29, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 19, 2021
Runtime: 1h 48m

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