Anything else
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Anything else |
| Original title | Anything else |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2003 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK o. A. |
| Rod | |
| Director | Woody Allen |
| script | Woody Allen |
| production | Letti Aronson |
| camera | Darius Khondji |
| cut | Alisa Lepselter |
| occupation | |
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Anything Else is an American film released in 2003.
action
Jerry Falk is a young, aspiring writer based in New York . He earns his living with commissioned texts for comedians, but he also works on a novel. His agent Harvey Wexler was a good supporter of Jerry early in his career, but over time he becomes more and more of a business burden.
Some time ago, Jerry fell madly in love with the impulsive Amanda. After a passionate beginning of their relationship, it becomes more and more "difficult" in the eyes of Jerry. They live in the same apartment but have not had sex for six months. Amanda just has no sexual desire for Jerry. Even so, they continue to assure one another of their love. Jerry's psychoanalyst is also not helping him the way he would like.
In this situation, Jerry meets the older teacher and author David Dobel. From the highly learned Dobel he received the advice that he missed from his psychoanalyst. However, it also makes him more and more suspicious of Amanda. After Jerry notices that Amanda is wearing her diaphragm , he jealously spies on her. Jerry's purchase of a firearm on David's advice and Amanda's mother's sudden move into their shared apartment are also the cause of further conflicts. David also persuades Jerry not to renew the contract with his agent Harvey. Harvey sees his own future endangered and barely escapes a heart attack after this shock.
When Jerry spends a night with Amanda in a hotel to awaken her old passion, the ambulance with a hyperventilating Amanda escalates. Then she falls in love with the attending doctor and leaves Jerry. On the same day, however, he also had to leave Amanda in order to move to the west coast with Dobel and work there. Shortly before leaving, Dobel confesses that he probably shot and inadvertently killed a police officer out of revenge and is therefore not going with him. However, it remains unclear whether Dobel invented this story just to get Jerry to start a new life in Hollywood on his own.
backgrounds
DreamWorks launched a US $ 10 million expensive marketing - campaign for the film, which aimed to make Biggs and Ricci a youthful audience tasty. Trailers , TV commercials, and posters for the film seemed to want to cover up the fact that Woody Allen was screenwriter and director on the film, perhaps because of his recent films that have been weak at the box office. Roger Ebert noted in his film review that "it looked like you had a gem, a Woody Allen film, and wanted to wrap it in packaging for the American Pie horde." But the film proved itself in the States flopped and only came in 12th place on the first weekend with total sales of just $ 3.2 million. As always with Allen films, it did better in front of overseas audiences, reaching total sales of $ 10.3 million. However, he was unable to recoup the $ 18 million production cost or the $ 10 million DreamWorks invested in marketing costs in the film.
The film opened the 60th Venice Film Festival . Woody Allen made one of his rare public appearances during the opening gala.
criticism
The lexicon of international films ruled that Woody Allen took up "well-known themes of his New York city neurotics universe" with this film, but that what used to be "often melancholy and cross-colored, would in many places turn into sarcasm".
Web links
- Anything Else in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Anything Else atrotten tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Anything Else. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .