New York Minuteis a 2004 American teen comedy film starring Mary-Kate Olsen , Ashley Olsen and Eugene Levy . It was directed by Dennie Gordon and released on May 7, 2004. In the film Mary-Kate and Ashley play twins with opposing personalities who have a series of misadventures around New York City .New York Minutereunited Mary-Kate and Ashley with theirFull Houseco-star, Bob Saget . It is the Olsen twins' first theatrical film since the 1995 filmIt Takes Twoand is the last film in which the two worked together, to date.

New York Minutefollows 17 year old identical twin sisters Roxanne "Roxy" Ryan and Jane Ryan on a wild romp through the streets, subways and sewers of Manhattan during one unforgettable day. Uptight overachiever Straight A Student Jane ( Ashley Olsen ), up for a scholarship at Oxford University , has a major speech to give while laid-back rock rebel Roxy ( Mary-Kate Olsen ) hopes to get backstage at a video shoot and slip her demo tape to the band. But Jane's and Roxy's plans go wildly awry and the two must join together when a mix-up involving Jane's all-important day planner lands them in the middle of a black market music piracy scheme. Sidetracked, sideswiped and chased from Chinatown to Times Square to Harlem by everyone from assassins to politicians to a whacked-out truancy officer ( Eugene Levy ), the sisters also find unexpected romance in the form of a Senator's bad-boy son (Supernatural's Jared Padalecki ) and a cute bike messenger ( Riley Smith ).