A Beginner's Guide to Endings

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Movie
German title A Beginner's Guide to Endings
Original title A Beginner's Guide to Endings
Country of production United States
Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2010
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jonathan Sobol
script Jonathan Sobol
production Nicholas Tabarrok
music Grayson Matthews
camera Samy Inayeh
cut Geoff Ashenhurst
occupation

A Beginner's Guide to Endings is a 2010 American - Canadian comedy film directed by Jonathan Sobol .

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The gambling addict Duke White is about to commit suicide. He wants to hang himself from a tree, but the branch breaks. Desperate, he goes to the nearby Niagara Falls with the branch under his arm and the gallows rope around his neck . There he throws himself down. Duke's body is not found.

Duke leaves behind five sons named Edward Jr., nicknamed Nuts, Cal, Jacob, Safti, and Todd. He has these from three different women, which is why his wife Goldie has left him. His brother Pal reads the sons the will, in which Duke bequeathed something special to everyone and the house to everyone. However, the deceased also announces the imminent deaths of Nuts, Cal and Jacob.

Ten years ago he had registered the three teenagers for a test of the drug Affekterol, for which he received 2,000 Canadian dollars each. A few weeks before his death, he received an out-of-court settlement from the drug manufacturer, which guaranteed each previous test participant 100,000 Canadian dollars. It has been found that anyone who has taken Affekterol will die of a heart condition in the near future. Duke took all the money himself and bet it all.

Each of the three sons processed this message in their own way. Jacob, almost a philistine, makes a list of things he has always wanted to do. First, he quits his job, buys his dream car, and does many more crazy things. Nuts, who as an amateur boxer only won all his fights because his father bought the respective fight, gets back into the ring. Cal, the womanizer, has the crazy plan to marry his former love Miranda. However, Miranda has already had three marriages, and none of the husbands died of natural causes.

When Jacob wants to conquer Niagara Falls in a barrel, his mother Goldie arrives at the last second and tells him that she exchanged all tablets for harmless peppermint tablets and that there is no danger. However, due to an accident, the bin falls into the water. Meanwhile, Cal is standing with Miranda at the falls and is about to propose to her. At that moment, Duke's corpse detaches itself from the rope that is caught at the bottom, so that it is catapulted upwards out of the water. For Cal this is a sign and he says goodbye to Miranda. After this incident, a tourist called the emergency doctor, who caused a power failure in the boxing ring on the way to the waterfalls due to an accident, so that Nuts can knock down his overpowering opponent in the dark. In the end, Jacob's barrel gets caught in Duke's drifting gallows rope, which saves his life. So Duke could at least help his sons with his death. At the end the whole family sits together harmoniously, as was the last most repentant wish from Duke, who speaks from the off at the beginning and at the end of the film .

criticism

"Weird film fun that only sags a bit in the episodic middle section, but otherwise offers the best entertainment."

- Cinema.de

“Loser comedy enriched with sitcom sarcasm, in which James' son Scott Caan (" Ocean's 11 ") leads a proletarian quintet who want to get their life sorted out after bad news. The Canadian rock'n'roll variant of "Männerherzen" features the big caliber Harvey Keitel and JK Simmons in supporting roles and tragicomic revelations about the belligerent brothers, who, since there is no later for them, live like Evel Knievel and teach crazy how : The smallest portions in the ice cream parlor are called pussy. "

- Video.de

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Beginner's Guide to Endings cinema.de
  2. ↑ A Beginner's Guide to Endings ( Memento from April 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) video.de