City, country, kiss

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Movie
German title City, country, kiss
Original title Town & Country
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2001
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Peter Chelsom
script Buck Henry
Michael Laughlin
production Simon Fields
Andrew S. Karsch
Fred Roos
music Rolfe Kent
camera William A. Fraker
cut David Moritz
Claire Simpson
occupation

Stadt, Land, Kuss ( Town & Country ) is a 2001 American comedy film directed by Peter Chelsom . The DVD release was titled City, Sex & Country .

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Porter Stoddard is a wealthy architect . He has homes on Park Avenue and the Hamptons in New York City, as well as a cabin in west Sun Valley. He has been married to the equally successful interior designer Ellie for 25 years, but has an affair with the cellist Alex.

There are difficulties in the marriage of their best friends. Mona Morris wants a divorce from her husband Griffin. She plans to travel to Mississippi to see her childhood home. Worried about Mona's depression and the state of her marriage, Ellie feels she shouldn't be alone. She asks Porter to accompany Mona south. There they start an affair .

Porter and Griffin want to fly to Sun Valley themselves to escape their worries. Porter begins another affair with Eugenie Claybourne, a spoiled heiress whose father doesn't want men with his daughter and always has his shotgun loaded.

When Porter returns to New York City, his wife leaves him.

Reviews

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The film received mixed reviews. In the Internet Movie Database , the film received an average rating of 4.4 out of 10 in over 4,000 reviews. Rotten Tomatoes ' critics got 14% positive reviews. At Metacritic , the critics got 34% positive reviews.

Wesley Morris scoffed in the San Francisco Chronicle that the film wasn't bad enough to bring about the end of the world. He called the comedy a 'neurotic festival' by Warren Beatty. The screenwriter Buck Henry tries in vain to patch up the sketchy jokes. The film seems like a bad French sex farce.

Rolf von der Reith praised the portrayals in TV Today 15/2001 but criticized the script.

Bärbel Pfannerer compared the film in TV Movie 15/2001 with the comedies by Woody Allen . Your conclusion: 'Great!'

Der Spiegel 28/2001 compared the film with a 'demolition villa' and described it as a 'bedtime treat for the menopausal years'.

Awards

Charlton Heston received the Golden Raspberry in 2002 . Goldie Hawn was nominated for her role for the Golden Raspberry, with Peter Chelsom and Warren Beatty also nominated for directing.

backgrounds

The film was produced by New Line Cinema . Production costs were estimated at 90 million US dollars . The film grossed $ 6.7 million in US cinemas. Measured against the actual losses (in addition to production costs, there are also millions of advertising expenses), the film is one of the biggest flops in film history .

The film was shot in Los Angeles ( California ), East Hampton (New York) , Beverly Hills (California), New York City ( New York ) and Sun Valley (Idaho) .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Town & Country (2000). Rotten Tomatoes , accessed February 20, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Town & Country. Metacritic , accessed February 20, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b Stadt, Land, Kuss (2001). IMDb , accessed February 20, 2016 .
  4. ^ Film review by Wesley Morris
  5. ^ Company credits. IMDb , accessed February 20, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Box Office Bombs - The Biggest Flops in Film History ( Memento of the original from April 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / de.movies.yahoo.com
  7. ↑ Filming Locations. IMDb , accessed February 20, 2016 .