A Smile Like Yours - No smile like yours

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Movie
German title A Smile Like Yours - No smile like yours
Original title A smile like yours
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1997
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Keith Samples
script Kevin Meyer ,
Keith Samples
production Tony Amatullo ,
Robert Harling ,
David Kirkpatrick
music William Ross
camera Richard Bowen
cut Wayne Wahrman
occupation

A Smile Like Yours - no smile like yours ( A Smile Like Yours ) is an American comedy film from the year 1997 . Directed by Keith Samples , who together with Kevin Meyer wrote the script.

action

The married couple Jennifer and Danny Robertson want to have a child but cannot have one. They have sex frequently, sometimes in public places like an elevator. The spouses turn to a clinic that specializes in such cases. However, Danny is against his wife being fertilized with sperm donation.

Jennifer and her friend Nancy Tellen sell the perfume designed by the women to a large company. Danny doesn't know about the negotiations. He happened to see his wife on the street, who met the company's CEO and got into his car. He doesn't notice Tellen who got on earlier and thinks his wife is having an affair.

Danny worries about how to pay the clinic bills. The architect Lindsay Hamilton gives Danny an order in Seattle . She accompanies him on the business trip there and meets Jennifer at the airport, who Danny wants to say goodbye. Jennifer thinks the woman is a lover of her husband and gets angry. She later calls her husband - whom Hamilton tried unsuccessfully to seduce - in his hotel room. By chance, Hamilton stayed there overnight, who picks up the phone. Jennifer leaves her husband.

After returning, Danny explains the situation to his mother-in-law. Meanwhile, Hamilton visits Jennifer in his perfume shop and reveals the truth to her. Danny and Jennifer make it up and want to try to have the child the conventional way. Two years later they have triplets.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that infertility can be weird, but it isn't in this film. The film vacillates between a "not funny farce" and an "ineffective melodrama". One could forget him so much that Berardinelli - as he scoffed - would have to read it up in a few months' time in his review to find out what the film was all about. Lauren Holly's acting skills are severely limited; Greg Kinnear has problems with more serious scenes. The performances of the supporting actors like Jay Thomas, Joan Cusack and Jill Hennessy are more interesting than those of the leading actors.

Cinema magazine wrote, "Both main characters stalk so bloodlessly through the story as if they had jumped straight out of the test tube". The film is "more of a sleeping pill than an aphrodisiac".

The lexicon of international films said: “A comedy that is frivolous and prudish at the same time, but which lacks too much wit to survive as carefree entertainment. The poor expression of the leading actress can do little to counter this, so that the film ultimately turns out to be a harmless spoof of the business of having children. "

Awards

Lauren Holly was nominated for the Golden Raspberry in 1998 .

backgrounds

The film was in Alameda ( California ) and San Francisco rotated. Its production amounted to an estimated 18 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 3.25 million in US cinemas.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed September 12, 2007
  2. ^ Cinema, accessed September 12, 2007
  3. ↑ A Smile Like Yours - No smile like yours. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Filming locations for A Smile Like Yours, accessed September 12, 2007
  5. ^ Box office / business for A Smile Like Yours, accessed September 12, 2007