Buster (film)

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Movie
German title Buster
Original title Buster
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director David Green
script Colin Shindler
production Norma Heyman
music Anne Dudley
camera Tony Imi
cut Lesley Walker
occupation

Buster (alternative title: Buster - A crook with a heart ) is a tragic comedy from 1988 . The score sung by Phil Collins became a hit parade. The film is about the mail robber Ronald Buster Edwards , from his background, the robbery and the escape to Mexico up to his release from prison.

action

Buster Edwards is a petty hoodlum from the East End of London whom his wife June thinks is a very lovable villain. But his occasional robbery is not enough for him and he feels called to higher things, after all, his wife wants her own house. He contacts his friend Harry, who recently served 18 months in prison for his involvement in a robbery, so that he can match him with gang boss Bruce Reynolds . He is planning to rob a mail train that is said to be transporting a million pounds in cash shortly.

The robbery succeeds and the gang successfully returns to their hiding place to share the booty. They find they have looted over three million pounds - much more than the media reported. The police are searching farmhouses and properties for the robbers within 30 miles of the crime scene. The gang gets nervous and some members want to return to London immediately for fear of being discovered. Others feel they should stick to the original plan and stick to it.

The gang decides to return to London, where they meet their contact, a lawyer, who as planned see that their previous hiding place is "cleared and cleaned up", thus removing any physical evidence that the gang can relate to the robbery , be eliminated. However, the lawyer allegedly does not manage to reorganize this so quickly, since her return to London so early is messing up his schedule and he could not take action before two to three days at the earliest. Bruce, Buster and Harry still seem to be too long and so they make their way back in their own car to the farmhouse that served as a hiding place to do the work themselves. On the way there, they hear on the car radio that the farmhouse has already been discovered by the police. So they give up their plans, return to London and hope that there will be enough time to flee with their families.

When Buster returns home, he learns that June has miscarried while he was away, so he refrains from escaping with her. She can't believe it when Buster tells her about his involvement in the mail train robbery . Buster and June hide at home for a few months, but are then betrayed to the police by a neighbor. Buster therefore flees alone to Acapulco, where he is received by his colleague Bruce Reynolds and his girlfriend Fanny, who fled here immediately after the robbery and now enjoy the sun with the stolen money.

June travels to Buster some time later, but is not that happy in Mexico, so she decides to return to England. Buster also no longer wants to live in exile without his family and returns home while England celebrated the 1966 World Cup triumph . He has understood that money and sun mean nothing to him without his family and is ready to bear the legal consequences for his deed.

The film ends twelve years after Buster's release from prison, where he seems to be running a flower shop near London's Waterloo Bridge, apparently satisfied.

Film music

The Phil Collins singles from the film, A Groovy Kind of Love and Two Hearts , reached # 1 and # 6 on the UK Singles Chart . Both songs were number one singles in the US. Two Hearts was nominated for Best Song at the 1989 Academy Awards.

Phil Collins was also involved in the song Loco in Acapulco sung by The Four Tops .

criticism

Roger Ebert of Buster Movie Review said: “The focus of the film is not the crime but the relationship between Buster and June, and we tend to believe him when he says he did everything for the love of his family. They are most likely to fall apart under pressure in Mexico, where living in the sun desperately makes June homesick. Given a menu of Mexican food, she longs for steak and french fries and remarks wistfully, 'We never used to be able to afford that.' Now that you can, you are in the wrong country to order it. "

In Kino.de said: "pop star Phil Collins is convincing as Buster Edwards, and also wife Julie Walters (" Personal Service ") it is not that the film has a few lengths. Too little rogue, too little excitement, but still a top success in British cinemas and also in this country with more than 300,000 viewers, decent visitor numbers. Safe business thanks to Phil Collins' traction. "

"Staggering indecisively between different narrative strands, the film is an entertaining but not very in-depth examination of private and social backgrounds, which the title character builds into a rogue artist of life."

- film service 21/1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Synchronized voices at synchronkartei.de, accessed on March 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ Roger Ebert: The center of the movie is occupied, not by the crime, but by the relationship between Buster and June, and we are inclined to believe him when he says he has done everything just for the love of his family. They come closest to breaking apart under the pressure in Mexico, where life in the sun makes June desperately homesick. Faced with a menu of Mexican food, she yearns for steak and fries, and wistfully observes, "We never used to be able to afford it." Now that they can, they're in the wrong country to order it. at rogerebert.com, accessed March 3, 2019.
  3. ↑ Film review at Kino.de , accessed on March 3, 2019.