Everywhere, just not here
Movie | |
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German title | Everywhere, just not here |
Original title | Anywhere But Here |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1999 |
length | 114 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 6 |
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Director | Wayne Wang |
script | Alvin Sargent |
production |
Laurence Mark , Ginny Nugent |
music | Danny Elfman |
camera | Roger Deakins |
cut | Nicholas C. Smith |
occupation | |
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Anywhere but Here (Original title: Anywhere But Here ) is an American film drama by Wayne Wang in 1999. The screenplay wrote Alvin Sargent based on a novel by Mona Simpson . The main roles were played by Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman .
action
Adele August and her 14-year-old daughter Ann August moved from Bay City, Wisconsin to Los Angeles in 1995 . Ann is not thrilled to have to give up her old life. The mother and daughter live in a small apartment and sometimes Adele is unable to pay the bills.
Adele wants her daughter to become an actress; Ann would rather go to college . After about two years, Adele sells her car to enable Ann to study.
Reviews
Kenneth Turan criticized the film adaptation of the subtle and complex novel in the Los Angeles Times on November 12, 1999 .
Michael Wilmington praised the characters, script and performance of the leading actresses in the Chicago Tribune .
Edward Guthmann's San Francisco Chronicle emphasizes above all the good interplay between Sarandon and Portman.
“The portrait of a conflicted mother-daughter relationship that is solidly entertaining thanks to the great play of the actors. However, due to a superficial script, the film does not live up to its own claim of emotional intensity. "
Awards
Natalie Portman was nominated for a Golden Globe and a Young Artist Award in 2000.
Paul LeBlanc was nominated for the Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Award in 2000.
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “particularly valuable”.
backgrounds
The shooting took place in the summer of 1998. The film premiered on September 17, 1999 at the Toronto International Film Festival .
Web links
- Anywhere but Here in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website ( Memento of May 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- Anywhere but Here at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Anywhere but Here at Metacritic (English)
- Pictures on www.foxmovies.com
- Trailer of the film
Individual evidence
- ^ Edward Guthmann: It's the Real Portman in `` Anywhere But Here '/ Young actress nearly steals movie from Sarandon. In: SFGate. November 12, 1999, accessed December 7, 2017 .
- ↑ Everywhere, just not here. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 7, 2017 .