Alone with Dad & Co
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Alone with Dad & Co |
| Original title | Getting Even with Dad |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1994 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Howard Deutch |
| script |
Tom S. Parker Jim Jennewein |
| production |
Pierce Gardner Katie Jacobs |
| music | Miles Goodman |
| camera | Tim Suhrstedt |
| cut | Richard Halsey |
| occupation | |
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Getting Even with Dad is an American family - comedy from the year 1994 .
action
After a surprise discovery of $ 1.5 million in coins from a childless old woman, Raymond "Ray" Gleason and his two accomplices Robert "Bobby" Drace and Carl want to steal them and sell them on the black market. assuming everyone receives about $ 250,000. Unfortunately, Ray's sister Kitty drops his son Timmy with him because he has no one after his mother passed away. But Ray, Bobby and Carl don't let their raid stop them. They steal the coins and hide them on the roof. Unfortunately, Timmy finds out what they were doing, so he steals the coins again and hides them. He then blackmails Ray that he should play the perfect father for him for a week so that he does not send the videotape with the three and the stolen coins to the police. After this week you are welcome to have the coins again.
Meanwhile, Detective Theresa Walsh has narrowed down the suspects of the robbery on Ray and Bobby on the basis of a homeless person, which is why Lt. Romayko asks for some time so that she can have the two monitored . She sees how Ray, Carl and Bobby try together with Timmy to have fun with Timmy in the aquarium , in Candlestick Park , the home ground of the San Francisco Giants baseball team , while fishing, in the museum and while skating. After Theresa watched the four on the roller coaster, karaoke , carousel and mini golf on the second day at the amusement park California's Great America , she had to intervene the next day to save Timmy from an approaching bus. This way she comes into contact with Ray and is invited not only to coffee but also to dinner. She pretends to be a primary school teacher and kisses Ray.
Meanwhile, Bobby and Carl have stolen a card from Timmy's room that they believe will lead directly to the coins. However, they read and interpret the card according to their own methods so that they not only stumble from one misfortune to the next, but also end up in the garbage and are taken away by the garbage truck. After all, Bobby also believes that the treasure is in a church. So he reaches into the collection and steals a large box, only to flee from the nun and to be arrested by the police. He blames Timmy and Ray for all of these mishaps. Timmy, however, discovered on his video tapes that Theresa is a police officer and that he and his father are being monitored by the police. He shakes off his pursuer and deposits the coins at the bus station .
Then Timmy gives Ray the key and says that he should choose between himself and the coins. Because if he takes the coins he will never see him again because the police will arrest him. However, if he chooses him, the police will never arrest a suspect. This makes Ray angry, he wants to invest the money in his own pastry shop and not continue to commit crimes. But he decides in favor of the money and against his son, so he puts him on the next bus at the bus station and is about to open the locker. The police are waiting in the background and will not intervene until the key is in. But Ray changes his mind and leaves the money in favor of his son. Unfortunately, Bobby appears and forces Ray to open the locker at gunpoint, causing the police to intervene and arrest both of them along with the evidence. However, they weren't the coins they were looking for, just a few pennies. Timmy gives Theresa the tip that the real coins are hanging in a shoulder bag on a mannequin in the department store, so that he and his father can then be released, because they cannot be arrested without evidence.
criticism
Although Ted Danson and Macaulay Culkin play "heartwarming but not silly," the New York Times ' Caryn James criticized the film for being "annoying [and] full of pathetic jokes." In addition, the story is "wrong and nonsensical like Ted Danson's glued-on ponytail".
In the Chicago Sun-Times, the renowned film critic Roger Ebert attested that the film was full of ambitions because he wanted "a crime thriller, a comedy, a romance and tailored to Macaulay Culkin." And that was too much. Although "a few obligatory tears" could be shed in the final scene, the scriptwriters simply fail to maintain the tension while offering "unnecessary" and "bizarre" explanations.
The lexicon of international films said that the film is a “family comedy that is tailored entirely to its child star, but whose acting does not even cope with the modest requirements of the script and direction.” In addition, the film is full of “full of fake pathos, lying morals and cheap jokes. "
The German TV magazine Prisma said not only that Macaulay Culkin shines “in the lead role of this fast-paced family comedy that is tailored to the little star”, but that “this is one of the best films with Culkin”.
The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
background
Originally, the Macaulay Culkins character of Timmy Gleason was supposed to have short hair. However, since Culkin liked his long hair at the time, his father Kit Culkin was able to get his son to keep his hair.
Together with his two other starring roles in The Pagemaster - Richies fantastic trip and Richie Rich was Culkin at the presentation of raspberry 1995 Golden as Schlechinger tester lead actor nomination.
In the United States, the film opened in cinemas on June 17, 1994, and with an estimated production budget of just under 30 million US dollars, it was only able to reap a little more than 18.8 million US dollars. In Germany, after it started on July 7, 1994, it was seen by 182,637 moviegoers. The film has been available on VHS since January 27, 1995 and on DVD since April 3, 2003 .
Web links
- Alone with Dad & Co in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Alone with Dad & Co in the German dubbing file
- Alone with Dad & Co at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Caryn James : Getting Even With Dad (1994) on nytimes.com from June 17, 1994 (English), accessed April 11, 2012
- ↑ Roger Ebert : Getting Even With Dad on suntimes.com from June 17, 1994 (English), accessed on April 11, 2011.
- ^ Alone with Dad & Co in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 10, 2012.
- ↑ Alone with Dad & Co on prisma.de , accessed on April 11, 2012.
- ^ Ted Danson, Macaulay Culkin Work Together On An Even Keel , Morning Call . Retrieved April 11, 2012.
- ↑ Getting Even With Dad (1994) on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed April 11, 2012
- ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 1994 on insidekino.de , accessed on April 11, 2012