Bachelor party

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Movie
German title Bachelor party
Original title Bachelor party
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1984
length 105 minutes
Age rating FSK 12 (previously 18, re-examination 2010)
Rod
Director Neal Israel
script Bob Israel
Neal Israel
Pat Proft
production Bob Israel
Ron Moler
Raju Patel
music Robert Folk
camera Hal Trussell
cut Tom Walls
occupation

Bachelor Party ( English bachelor party " bachelor party ") is an American comedy film from 1984 . The director was Neal Israel and the script was written by Neal Israel and Pat Proft . The main roles were played by Tom Hanks , Tawny Kitaen , Adrian Zmed , Robert Prescott and Deborah Harmon . The score was composed by Robert Folk .

action

Young enterprising school bus driver Rick Gassko (Hanks) decides to go solid and marry his girlfriend Debbie Thompson (Kitaen). While his wealthy future in-laws want someone else, the blonde Porsche driver Cole Whittier, as a husband for their daughter, his friends decide to host the ultimate bachelorette party for Rick.

After complex preliminary planning, an event takes place in the presidential suite of the local luxury hotel, during which several strippers , whores , various drugs and a donkey play a decisive role.

After some of the ordered strippers are diverted from the party to a celebratory reception at their mother's house by the spurned admirer Debbies, Debbie and the other women decide to do the same as the men and first go to a male strip show and then to the hotel. Disguised as prostitutes, they want to convict Rick of infidelity. The plan fails. Debbie's sister Eileen sacrifices herself in a hotel room with Japanese businessmen in underwear in order to help the other women to escape from them. At the same time, Debbie's conservative father finds himself gagged in bondage on a bed at the party during a police raid . After the party is surprisingly ended by the police, Cole kidnaps Debbie in general chaos. After a spectacular chase, the film ends in a multiplex cinema with Debbi's release by Rick.

In one of the most famous scenes in the film, a donkey dies of a methaqualone and cocaine overdose during the party .

production

In 1981 Gary Grossman held a bachelorette party for his friend Bob Israel . The event gave Israel and his friend the marketing specialist Ron Moler the idea of ​​producing a comedy about such rituals. As newbies to film production, they needed solid funding for the film. Instead of submitting a script to investors as is usually the case in such cases, Israel and Moler developed the concept of a “fake” advertising campaign. This impressed Twin Continental Films so much that it provided the two producers with the necessary financial means to implement the project.

As a result, Israel brought his brother Neal (the Police Academy screenwriter ) into the project as a director and worked with him on a framework that was eventually expanded into the final screenplay by Neal and Pat Proft . Convinced of the economic potential of the project, Executive Producer Joe Roth finally sent the script along with the advertising posters for the fake campaign to 20th Century Fox , who agreed to take over the distribution of the production once it was completed.

Filming of Bachelor Party began on August 15, 1983, and production was completed on November 11, 1983. Filming was suspended two days after it began. Several roles were filled during the break, which lasted around a month. In September the production was continued after the following actors no longer appeared:

The production cost of the film was around US $ 6 million.

In 2007, Bob Israel presented a second part entitled Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation .

Locations

  • The Parkview Hotel was shot at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel , Los Angeles .
  • The John Marshall High School in Los Angeles served as the backdrop for St. Gabriel's Catholic School .

reception

The film premiered in the United States on June 29, 1984, after originally scheduled to be released on April 13.

The film grossed over US $ 38 million in the US alone. Video exploitation recently achieved over US $ 19 million in the USA alone.

Reviews

"Exuberant, but largely unsuccessful comedy that combines ambiguous jokes, flat slapstick and bits of confusion into a coherent film with great difficulty."

- Lexicon of international film

Reference to other films

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bachelor Party. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used