17 Again - Back to High School
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | 17 Again - Back to High School |
| Original title | 17 Again |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | Cinema: 102 minutes DVD: 98 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Burr Steers |
| script | Jason Filardi |
| production |
Adam Shankman , Jennifer Gibgot |
| music | Rolfe Kent |
| camera | Tim Suhrstedt |
| cut | Padraic McKinley |
| occupation | |
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17 Again - Back to High School (Original Title: 17 Again ) is a 2009 American comedy film directed by Burr Steers and starring Zac Efron .
action
In 1989, 17-year-old Mike O'Donnell stars the basketball team at Hayden High School and has the chance for a full college scholarship . Nothing should stand in the way of a great career as a basketball player if his girlfriend didn't let him know that she was pregnant right before a game-changing game. So he makes the choice for his girlfriend and the baby and against his planned career as an athlete.
At present, Mike is 37 years old and dissatisfied with his life. He regrets himself that he couldn't go to college and keeps thinking back to the past. Since he always let his wife feel that she was to blame for his situation, she has separated from him and wants a divorce. He doesn't get along well with his children Maggie and Alex either, as he has hardly dealt with them in recent years and they now don't want anything to do with him.
After moving out of the common house, he now lives with his best friend, the somewhat bizarre millionaire Ned Gold, to whom he was the only one in high school when he was treated badly by others. Nothing came of the expected promotion to regional sales manager at a pharmaceutical company. Although he has delivered the best results and has been with the company for 16 years, he was passed over and a colleague promoted who has only been with the company two months. After an argument with his supervisor, he no longer has a job.
He drives to his old high school to remember what he sees as a better past, and meets a mysterious caretaker there. On the drive home, he sees the old man again, standing on a bridge railing over a river. After a truck drove by, the man disappeared and Mike jumps after it - into a magical whirlpool. He then finds himself in the body of 17-year-old Mike in the present.
With the help of his friend Ned, who pretends to be his father, he enrolls at his former high school under the name Mark Gold in the hope of doing something for himself and his life. But then Mike discovers that his daughter Maggie is dating Stan, the school's rowdy thug, and that his son Alex is regularly bullied at school. He realizes that his real job is not to help himself but to help his children. With Mark's help, Alex gets a place on the basketball team and the girlfriend he wants. He also helps his still-wife in the garden to gain her trust and to be a little close to her.
Ned, who has fallen in love with her since first meeting school principal Jane Masterson, finally manages to get her to date him after numerous unsuccessful attempts. By chance they notice their mutual love for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. When they arrive in front of his house, they notice the party that Mark is giving because of a basketball game he has won, and they cannot spend the evening together in Ned's house as planned. When Scarlet also appears at the party looking for Alex and she praises Mark for taking such good care of Alex, he is overwhelmed by his feelings for her and kisses her, whereupon she slaps him publicly. Maggie and her friends are also witnesses of his action and are outraged.
The next morning, Ned reminds Mark of the divorce hearing. In the courtroom, Mark pretends to read a letter from Scarlet's husband, Mike, in which he once again implores her love, but ultimately releases her. Scarlet then has the divorce postponed and sees that the "letter" was just a slip of paper with directions to the courthouse.
During the championship game, Scarlet sees Mark make the typical Mike gesture on the field and realizes that it must actually be Mike. She gets up and hastily leaves the hall. Mark aka Mike sees the same scenes again as he did 20 years ago, and he chooses Scarlet again in the present. When running out, he hands the ball to his son, who is then substituted in for him. As he chases after Scarlet, the smiling caretaker turns Mark back into the grown-up Mike.
At the end of the film, Mike is named coach of the high school basketball team by Headmaster Masterson, who eventually got together with Ned.
production
It was released in theaters in the USA on April 17, 2009 and in Germany on May 14, 2009.
Actual high school photos of the staff are shown alongside their names during the credits.
Production costs were estimated at $ 20 million. The film grossed around 136 million US dollars in cinemas around the world, including around 64 million US dollars in the USA and 5.5 million US dollars in Germany.
synchronization
The German dubbing was done by FFS Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH from Munich. Dialogue director resulted January Odle .
| actor | speaker | role |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Perry | Michael Iwannek | Mike O'Donnell (as an adult) |
| Zac Efron | Daniel hose | Mike O'Donnell (as a teenager) |
| Leslie Mann | Petra Einhoff | Scarlet O'Donnell (as an adult) |
| Allison Miller | Gabrielle Pietermann | Scarlet O'Donnell (as a teenager) |
| Sterling Knight | Tobias John von Freyend | Alex O'Donnell |
| Jim Gaffigan | Torsten Münchow | Coach Murphy |
| Michelle Trachtenberg | Annina Braunmiller | Maggie O'Donnell |
| Nicole Sullivan | Martina Duncker | Naomi |
| Thomas Lennon | Axel Malzacher | Ned gold |
| Diana-Maria Riva | Elisabeth Günther | judge |
| Tommy Dewey | Benedikt Weber | Roger |
| Melora Hardin | Claudia Lössl | Headmistress Jane Masterson |
| Margaret Cho | Andrea Wick | Sex education teacher |
| Hunter Parrish | Patrick Roche | Stan |
| Collette Wolfe | Tatiana Pokorny | Wendy |
Soundtrack
- On My Own by Vincent Vincent and The Villains
- Can't Say No from The Helio Sequence
- LES Artistes by Santigold
- Naive by The Kooks
- This is Love by Toby Lightman
- You Really Wake Up the Love in Me by The Duke Spirit
- The Greatest of Cat Power
- Rich Girls from The Virgins
- This is for Real by Motion City Soundtrack
- Drop from Ying Yang Twins
- Cherish from Kool & the Gang
- Bust a Move by Young MC
- Danger Zone by Kenny Loggins
reception
“Conventional but entertaining Hollywood comedy that thrives on the comic talent of its main actor. In addition, the delayed self-awareness trip of the main character is used for subtle self-criticism. "
“As is so often the case, Hollywood wraps a good idea in paper stereotypes and drowns it in lovelessness. The direction of Burr Steers is tailored to Zac Efron, one of those teen idols that makes girls all over the world scream since High School Musical . Similar to Bill Kaulitz from Tokio Hotel, he exudes precisely that degree of masculinity that is suitable for taking 10 to 12 year olds away from fear of the opposite sex. [...] Any potential danger of the subject is ignored, as you never see anyone other than - Zac Efron in the young actor Zac Efron. […] '17 Again 'has a lot of superfluous subplots and an expected family-friendly message. The conversation is meager. "
“In this variant of Frank Capra's ' It's a Wonderful Life ' there is also a friendly, older gentleman who, like James Stewart's angel Clarence, transports the despondent hero into an alternative world after jumping off a bridge, in which all his wishes seem to come true so that he finally realizes what he really wants and that he has always had it. "
Awards
Zac Efron was honored at the Teen Choice Awards 2009 for Best Comedy Actor , Best Actor in Music and Dance and in the Choice Rockstar Moment category.
The film was nominated for Favorite Comedy at the 2010 People's Choice Awards . In the same year, Zac Efron received a nomination for the Kids' Choice Award for Favorite Male Actor and Best Actor for the MTV Movie Award .
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- 17 Again - Back to High School in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official website
- 17 Again - Back to High School at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for 17 Again - Back to High School . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2009 (PDF; test number: 117 714 K).
- ^ Age rating for 17 Again - Back to High School . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ a b 17 Again - Back to High School in the German dubbing index
- ↑ 17 Again - Back to High School. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ You can't always be 37 . In: Berliner Zeitung , May 13, 2009; Movie review
- ↑ 17 Again . ( Memento of November 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) In: taz , May 14, 2009; Movie review