Trouble, nothing but trouble

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Movie
German title Trouble, nothing but trouble
Original title A fine mess
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1986
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Blake Edwards
script Blake Edwards
production Tony Adams
music Henry Mancini
camera Harry Stradling junior
cut John F. Burnett
Robert Parchment
occupation

Trouble Nothing But Trouble is a 1986 comedy film starring Ted Danson and Howie Mandel . Blake Edwards wrote the script and directed. The film studio was Columbia and Blake Edwards Entertainment and the distributor The Coca-Cola Company . The film was intended as a remake of the classic short film The Grueling Piano Transport by Laurel and Hardy and, like this one, was to be shot semi-improvised in the same style as the early comedy by director Edwards, Der Partyschreck , but with the interference of the studio, the poor response to test screenings and subsequent re-editing of the film resulted in the film becoming a scripted chase, with few of the original ideas for the film preserved. Screenwriter and director Blake Edwards gave television interviews in which he told the audience not to do the film to themselves. The film received mostly negative reviews and flopped . The film was released in the US on August 8, 1986 and in Germany on September 4, 1986. The title song of the film is A Fine Mess , performed by The Temptations .

action

While he is being filmed at a location on a horse racing track , the small actor Spence Holden, who gets by with one cheat after the other and is well received by women , overhears the two clumsy crooks Binky and Turnip a racehorse with an undetectable super stimulant dope. The crooks find out that Holden has overheard them, so they do everything in their power to get him before he can whistle. However, Holden enlists the help of his friend Dennis Powell, who works as a waitress and aspiring restaurant worker at a drive-in car restaurant. They want to put $ 400 on the doped racehorse together, which should bring both a guaranteed profit. Holden and Powell eventually have to run away from the crooks who missed Holden's car a few bullet holes, but the police are also on their heels after they found Holden's car riddled with bullets and the racehorse Sorry, 30 lengths ahead of the winner Sue died from the drug administered. An antique piano that Powell got unexpectedly is about to be sold at auction. The naive auction house clerk Ellen Frankenthal feels drawn to Powell. The exotic beauty Claudia Pazzo is interested in acquiring the piano. Holden can't resist her. This combination creates more entanglements for Powell and Holden than they could ever have imagined.

Reviews

Anger, nothing but anger , received downright negative reviews in the United States. At Rotten Tomatoes , the film comedy received a rating of 26%. Critic Walter Goodman wrote in the New York Times : "Mr. Edwards, who gave us the Pink Panther films on happier occasions, lined up pile-ups until one could suspect that he was telling the audience about the lack of an entertaining plot or The eleven musical numbers by some well-known artists, available, as you can imagine, on record and cassette, also seem to be intended for the same purpose. " ("Mr. Edwards, who on happier occasions gave us the Pink Panther movies, piles on the pileups until you may suspect that he is trying to distract the audience from the absence of a diverting story or dialogue. The 11 musical numbers by some well -known performers (available, you can bet, on record and cassette) seem designed for the same purpose. ")

Blake Edwards' reaction

Edwards avoided giving interviews to promote the film, and when he did, he would tell the audience to save the film, especially because another of his films, That's Life, in the United States in September of that year ! Such is life that came to the cinema.

Gross profit

The film grossed just over 6 million US dollars in the US and was a flop.

Soundtrack

The soundtrack to the film was released in 1986 in the United States by Motown and in Germany by Ariola . It contained ten titles from the film, with the German and American versions differing in one song on the LP.

American playlist

  1. "Can't Help Falling In Love" - Christine McVie
  2. "Easier Said Than Done" - Chico DeBarge
  3. "A Fine Mess" - The Temptations
  4. "I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday" - Los Lobos
  5. "Love's Closing In" - Nick Jameson
  6. "Moving So Close" - Keith Burston & Darryl Littlejohn
  7. "Slow Down" - Billy Vera & Beaters
  8. "Stan And Ollie" - Henry Mancini
  9. "Walk Like A Man" - Mary Jane Girls
  10. "Wishful Thinking" - Smokey Robinson

German playlist

  1. "A Fine Mess" - The Temptations
  2. "Walk Like A Man" - Mary Jane Girls
  3. "Easier Said Than Done" - Chico DeBarge
  4. "Can't Help Falling In Love" - Christine McVie
  5. "Slow Down" - Billy Vera & Beaters
  6. "Love's Closing In" - Nick Jameson
  7. "Wishful Thinking" - Smokey Robinson
  8. "Moving So Close" - Second Generation
  9. "I'm Gonna Be A Wheel Someday" - Los Lobos
  10. "Stan And Ollie" - Henry Mancini

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ moviepilot.de
  2. ↑ Jet, April 14, 1986 [1]
  3. ^ Walter Goodman: A Fine Mess (1986) - SCREEN: EDWARDS'S 'FINE MESS' . In: The New York Times , August 8, 1986. Retrieved October 9, 2013. 
  4. ↑ A Fine Mess US Sountrack Version , Discogs
  5. ↑ A Fine Mess German Sountrackversion , Discogs