40 days and 40 nights

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Movie
German title 40 days and 40 nights
Original title 40 days and 40 nights
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Country of production USA , UK , France
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Michael Lehmann
script Rob Perez
production Liza Chasin ,
Debra Hayward ,
Michael London
music Rolfe Kent
camera Elliot Davis
cut Nicholas C. Smith
occupation

40 Days and 40 Nights (Original Title: 40 Days and 40 Nights ) is an American - British - French comedy film from 2002 . The director was Michael Lehmann , the script was written by Rob Perez . Josh Hartnett and Shannyn Sossamon played the leading roles .

action

In San Francisco live Internet expert Matt Sullivan is left by his girlfriend Nicole. Because of his fixation on his ex, Matt feels like he is falling into a black hole at one-night stands . After talking to his brother John, an aspiring Catholic priest, and his older colleague, he decides to refrain from any sexual activity for 40 days during the beginning of Lent .

After an indiscretion from his roommate Ryan, there are bets among Matt's friends as to whether he will last for 40 days. Some of the colleagues try to seduce Matt; they also offer themselves for two for a night and advertise with a French kiss. At the same time, Matt meets Erica Sutton in a laundromat, who fascinates him. After some appointments, Erica learns of the vow; after an initial shock, she demands of him to hold out until the end before a relationship could be considered. Matt experiences numerous doubts and has visions of naked women, he also catches his brother kissing a nun.

When Nicole is left by her new fiancé, she suddenly wants more from Matt, but Matt refuses. Matt recently let himself be tied to the bed by Ryan so that he could not please himself. After a bet, Nicole raped the sleeper a few minutes before the end of the fasting period. On leaving Matt's apartment, she meets Erica, who enters the apartment, sees the stains on Matt's underwear and leaves, angry and disappointed.

After a few days, Matt meets Erica again at the laundromat and gets her to forgive him. In the final scene of the film, you see Matt barricading himself in his room with Erica and his friends betting on him again.

production

Production costs amounted to about 17 million US dollars . The film was released by Miramax Films .

Reviews

The lexicon of international films describes the film as a "[h] armless comedy that lacks brilliant gags and talented actors, so that the cumulative insignificance of what is happening all too soon becomes uncomfortably noticeable". According to Cinema , the jokes of 40 days and 40 nights can "comfortably take on the toughest penis walls from puberty antics like American Pie and Road Trip ". Even if “the lively thigh tapping parade is flat”, it is not “completely haphazard”. The teen comedy was "cleverly constructed" and "cleverly cast with Josh Hartnett".

Prisma wrote: “This silly relationship clamor tries desperately to swim with the wave of the genre, but gets bogged down in inconsistencies and exaggerated idiocies such as the embarrassing permanent stand (purely biologically complete nonsense). So that the age rating for the teen audience is guaranteed, the quark only indulges in silly hints. Even the smart Josh Hartnett can't save anything. "

The film has been criticized by Catholic organizations like the Catholic League, founded in 1973 , for misrepresenting the Roman Catholic Church .

Awards

The film won the Box Office Germany Award . Josh Hartnett and Shannyn Sossamon were nominated for the Teen Choice Award .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for 40 days and 40 nights . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ 40 days and 40 nights. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Critique on cinema.de
  4. ^ Criticism on prisma.de