44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out is a 2003 film directed by Yves Simoneau. The film premiered on the FX Network in June 2003. The plot, about bank robbers held at bay by the Los Angeles Police Department, is based on an actual incident which occurred February 28, 1997 known as the North Hollywood shootout. It stars Michael Madsen as a homicide detective who is tracking a violent duo of bank robbers: Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. (played by ... more

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out is a 2003 film directed by Yves Simoneau. The film premiered on the FX Network in June 2003. The plot, about bank robbers held at bay by the Los Angeles Police Department, is based on an actual incident which occurred February 28, 1997 known as the North Hollywood shootout. It stars Michael Madsen as a homicide detective who is tracking a violent duo of bank robbers: Larry Eugene Phillips, Jr. (played by Andrew Bryniarski) and Emil Matasareanu (played by Oleg Taktarov). The Bank of America building in the actual robbery was in North Hollywood, but the building used in the film was a vacant bank in a strip mall in La Habra, California. Scenes on the residential streets where the robbers fled were filmed on the actual locations. The real gunmen also were nicknamed the 'High Incident Bandits' and the shootout was also the basis for the final episode of the 1996-1997 ABC-TV police drama 'High Incident.' "Shootout" episode of High Incident takes... less