$ 2 million tip
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | $ 2 million tip |
| Original title | It could happen to you |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Andrew Bergman |
| script | Jane Anderson |
| production | Mike Lobell |
| music |
Carter Burwell , Joe Mulherin |
| camera | Caleb Deschanel |
| cut | Barry Malkin |
| occupation | |
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$ 2 million tip (Original title: It Could Happen to You ) is an American comedy film from 1994 . The director was Andrew Bergman and the script was written by Jane Anderson . The main roles were played by Nicolas Cage and Bridget Fonda .
action
The action takes place in New York . The story is told like a fairy tale by Angel Dupree. Police officer Charlie Lang is a very good person both in his job as a police officer and in civil life. One day when Charlie and his partner are having breakfast in a café, Charlie meets the waitress Yvonne Biasi. She is relatively rude as she had to swear an oath of disclosure on the same day because her husband, whom she cannot afford to divorce, spent $ 12,000 on their shared credit card.
Since Charlie has no change but a lottery ticket with him, he promises Yvonne when he leaves, instead of the tip, half of the lottery winnings. In fact, Charlie and his wife Muriel got all six numbers correct. After Muriel has to accept that her share of the 64 million dollar jackpot has shrunk to 4 million due to other winners , there is a solid argument when Charlie tells her of his promise to share the profit with Yvonne. Muriel insists on Yvonne not sharing the profit.
The next day, Charlie wants to catch up on the tip and soothe his guilty conscience with a small present for the unsuspecting waitress. Yvonne is happy about the nice attention and speaks openly about her financial plight. Furthermore, Charlie sees how Yvonne takes care of AIDS sufferers who visit the café. Charlie realizes that Yvonne is a good person and that it would be right to give her part of the profit to help her. He lets you choose between a double tip and half the lottery win. Yvonne chooses the latter and, after initial disbelief, is overjoyed about the amount of the profit. Charlie, Yvonne and Muriel hit the headlines after the lottery company's press conference with the "$ 2 million tip to a waitress".
Yvonne buys the cafe she used to work in and even sets up a table there with Charlie's name, where the poor and homeless can get free food.
Muriel plans to increase her fortune, she describes herself as a "man of luxury". She spends part of her assets on renovating the apartment and on various luxury items. Charlie is wounded by a gunshot while on duty. Yvonne's husband returns to her life and wants some of the profits for himself.
Due to Muriel's material pursuit, the relationship between Charlie and her drifts apart. Charlie spends time with Yvonne, while Muriel meets the lottery winner Jack Gross at a boat party, who makes her offers how to invest her money, which arouses Muriel's interest.
When the media reported about Charlie and Yvonne's activities together, Muriel threw Charlie out of the apartment. She tells him she wants a divorce. The neighbor boy advises Charlie to spend the night in the Plaza . Yvonne, who is molested by her husband, also stays there for one night and happens to meet Charlie at the reception. They both spend a night together.
But hotel employees have informed the media about it. Due to the subsequent media hype, Charlie's chances in the subsequent divorce process are very poor. He is accused of having had a long relationship with Yvonne. Muriel's lawyers are demanding the US $ 1 million back from him, as well as the US $ 2 million from Yvonne, since it was Muriel's date of birth and her wedding anniversary that Charlie had played. However, Charlie was wrong about a day on the wedding day, but Muriel tells the court that the wrong date can be traced back to the ghost of her father who appeared in her dream.
Muriel can enforce all her demands, so that Charlie and Yvonne are penniless. She moves away from him and feels guilty about ruining his life. Charlie visits her on a lonely evening in the café and tells her that he doesn't care about money and that the person he got to know in her means much more to him than money. Charlie and Yvonne are now planning to leave New York. While they are dancing lonely in Yvonne's abandoned café, a homeless man knocks on the door, asking for soup. Yvonne gives it to him. He eats them while Charlie and Yvonne dance arm in arm. It turns out that the supposed homeless man is Angel Dupree, a photographer for the New York Post . He reports on the couple's “Darkest Hour” in a poignant newspaper article and others. a. that Charlie slipped him some more money when he was about to leave and regretted it wasn't anymore.
This story prompts New York citizens, following a tip from the newspaper, to do their own justice and tip Charlie and Yvonne their own. Thousands of letters arrive at Yvonne's cafeteria, all filled with a few dollars or small checks, so that Charlie and Yvonne get a "tip" of 600,000 US dollars. Charlie continues to work as a police officer and Yvonne buys her café again. Yvonne's ex-husband only gets a job as a taxi driver, while Muriel marries Jack Gross, who ransacks her bank account and flees the country. Muriel then lives with her mother and works in the nail salon again.
Reviews
Roger Ebert praised the direction of the film and the portrayal of Rosie Perez in the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper on July 29, 1994. Hal Hinson criticized the Washington Post on July 29, 1994 for being unrealistic. In Rolling Stone on February 14, 2001, Peter Travers described the relationship between Charlie and Yvonne as a parody of Ken and Barbie .
backgrounds
Some elements of the plot are based on a true story that happened to the cop Robert Cunningham and the waitress Phyllis Penzo . On March 30, 1984 the inspector asked the waitress Penzo in his regular pizzeria to help him type the lottery numbers. Both then selected three numbers each. Cunningham joked that if he won, he'd tip half. He stuck to that when he actually won six million dollars with this lot. Unlike in the film, both stayed with their respective significant other.
The film was shot in New York City , Jersey City and Yonkers . It grossed approximately $ 37.8 million in US cinemas .
synchronization
The German-language dubbing of the film was done by Film- & Fernseh-Synchron GmbH .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Charlie Lang | Nicolas Cage | Ronald Nitschke |
| Yvonne Biasi | Bridget Fonda | Susanna Bonaséwicz |
| Muriel Lang | Rosie Perez | Katrin Fröhlich |
| Angel Dupree | Isaac Hayes | Jochen Striebeck |
| Bo Williams | Wendell Pierce | Michael Brennicke |
| C. Vernon Hale | Richard Jenkins | Hartmut Neugebauer |
| Eddie Biasi | Stanley Tucci | Martin Umbach |
| Jack Gross | Seymour Cassel | Hans Wyprächtiger |
| Plaza bellhop | Kaipo Schwab | Philipp Brammer |
| Timothy | Charles Busch | Axel Malzacher |
Web links
- 2,000,000 US dollars tip at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Collection of reviews of 2,000,000 US dollars tip on Rotten Tomatoes (Engl.)
- MRQE: reviews of the film