Broadway Therapy

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Movie
German title Broadway Therapy
Original title She's Funny That Way
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2014
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Peter Bogdanovich
script Peter Bogdanovich,
Louise Stratten
production Louise Stratten,
George Drakoulias ,
Logan Levy ,
Holly Wiersma
music Ed Shearmur
camera Yaron Orbach
cut Nick Moore ,
Pax Aquarius
occupation

She's Funny That Way (Original title: She's Funny That Way ) is an American film comedy by Peter Bogdanovich from the year 2014 with Owen Wilson , Jennifer Aniston and Will Forte . The film premiered on August 29, 2014 at the Venice International Film Festival . In Germany it was released on August 20, 2015.

action

In a flashback, the actress Isabella "Izzy" Finkelstein tells a reporter about her life four years ago. In New York she met the gallant ladyboy and Broadway director Arnold while working as an escort girl named "Glow". She dreams of a career as an actress and wants to earn as much money as an escort until she can realize her dream. Arnold likes Izzy so much that he offers her $ 30,000 if she gives up her job as an escort.

The two meet again by chance when Izzy goes to audition for a Broadway play called Isabella Patterson, which Arnold is directing. While Arnold is rather negative towards Izzy, the rest of the theater members are all the more convinced of Izzy's suitability for the play.

Playwright Joshua invites Izzy to dinner in an Italian restaurant. Joshua's friend Jane, who also happens to be Izzy's therapist, visits the restaurant with her patient, Judge Pendergast, that same evening. She hits her boyfriend Joshua on the chin when she spots Izzy and Joshua together in the restaurant. Judge Pendergast, on the other hand, is excited to see Izzy again, as he has used her services as an escort in the past and can no longer get her out of his head.

When Delta, the leading actress in the Broadway play and Albert's wife at the same time, goes shopping with Albert, they meet a saleswoman in the store who has helped Albert with a large sum of money in the past. When Delta learns of this former affair, she freaks out. She later learns that Arnold has supported women financially several times. When Judge Pendergast persecutes Izzy and Joshua and confronts Izzy for breaking his heart, Joshua learns of Izzy's past as an escort girl and their night together with Arnold.

In order to get revenge on Arnold, Delta kisses her fellow actor and ex-boyfriend Seth particularly passionately in front of the assembled workforce during rehearsals for the play. Judge Pendergast appears again, who is spying on Izzy. In addition, the psychotherapist Jane appears, who reveals some of the secrets and relationship conflicts among those present and thus causes unrest, but also provides clarification. Most recently, Jane's parents appear in the theater, Jane's father hooks both Judge Pendergast and Arnold because they slept with his daughter. Two months later, despite all the odds, the Broadway play premiered. In the play there is a Hollywood agent who gives Isabella her first film engagement, which led to her breakthrough as a film actress.

At the end of Isabella's interview with the reporter, you find out what happened to those involved: Arnold and Delta's marriage failed, and the director has been involved in a charity for women ever since. Isabella and Josh's love affair also didn't work out, she is now with Quentin Tarantino . Seth and Dr. Jane, on the other hand, who met during the quarrels, get together. Judge Pendergast put his involvement with prostitutes in jail, and his private detective, Fleet, who was originally charged with pursuing Izzy's, has now become a couple with his wife, Mrs. Pendergast.

background

According to his own statements, Peter Bogdanovich came up with the idea for the plot while shooting his film Saint Jack in Singapore in 1978. During this time, he met some prostitutes and gave them large sums of money so that they could make something of their lives. He wrote most of the script together with his then wife Louise Stratten in the late 1990s , when he was in personal bankruptcy and wanted to cheer himself up by writing a comedy. Bogdanovich actually planned the project with John Ritter in the role of stage director. After Ritter's sudden death, he put the project on the back burner because he couldn't think of any other suitable cast for the role. That changed when he met Owen Wilson.

The quote with the nuts and the squirrels, which is quoted several times in the film, comes from the film Cluny Brown on Free Feet (1946) by Ernst Lubitsch with Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones in the leading roles. The director Quentin Tarantino and the actors Tatum O'Neal , Colleen Camp and Michael Shannon can be seen in small cameos .

reception

The film service ruled that “Peter Bogdanovich's attempt to do a retro romantic comedy on his own past with ' Is' what, Doc? 'and also to bow to the big screwball comedies ”, fails because“ the brilliantly cast staging loses sight of the dramaturgical connection of the story ”. Jörg Schöning, on the other hand, was very positive in Spiegel : “ Broadway Therapy is a high-speed update of those classic screwball comedies in which a bickering between the sexes turns into an entertaining exchange of blows. Every “punchline” a hit! Even Isabella's real name "Izzy Finkelstein" proves to be a homage to Lubitsch , who in his early film burlesques preferred to appear under role names like "Siegi" or "Sally" (...) Heaven, I'm in Heaven , Fred Astaire sang in the intro of des Opening credits. And the cinema lover can actually feel like in heaven for an hour and a half. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Approval for Broadway Therapy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , May 2015 (PDF; test number: 151 652 K).
  2. ↑ She's Funny That Way: Peter Bogdanovich. In: Creative Screenwriting. Retrieved October 6, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ Jim Hemphill: Playing All the Parts: Peter Bogdanovich on “She's Funny That Way” | Interviews | Roger Ebert. Retrieved October 6, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Broadway Therapy. Filmdienst , 17/2015, accessed on August 21, 2015 (short review).
  5. ↑ Criticism in the mirror