Madness without a handicap

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Movie
German title Caddyshack - madness without a handicap or caddyshack - terror on the golf course
Original title Caddyshack
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1980
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Harold Ramis
script Harold Ramis,
Brian Doyle-Murray ,
Douglas Kenney
production Douglas Kenney ,
Jon Peters
music Johnny Almond
camera Stevan Larner
cut William C. Carruth
occupation
chronology

Successor  →
Caddyshack II

Madness without a handicap (Original title: Caddyshack ) is an American comedy film directed by Harold Ramis from 1980 .

action

The focus of the action is the Bushwood Country Club , where the game of golf is dedicated. Danny Noonan, who works there as a caddy, wants to go to college, but his poor family, with many children, has no money for it.

The nouveau riche real estate entrepreneur Al Czervik gets into a conflict with the judge Elihu Smails, a snobby WASP . He insulted the judge and his wife with his remarks during a dinner.

Noonan sleeps with two women over the course of the incident: Lacey Underall, a niece of Judge Smails who has slept with Ty Webb before, and his colleague at the club, Maggie O'Hooligan. The judge promises him a scholarship if Noonan wins the caddy tournament. He succeeds in doing this, whereupon the judge invites him to a boat opening party and thus to better company. During the party, the children of better society consume hashish several times and also involve Danny in the process. As a result, there is sexual intercourse with Lacey, but the two are discovered by the judge and Danny pursues Danny with a golf club. After Danny spends the night on the golf course, Maggie reveals to him that she is expecting a child from Danny.

In a subplot, groundskeeper Carl Spackler tries to hunt down a pocket rat marauding under the golf course (called Gopher in the English film). After various unsuccessful measures, he tries plastic explosives at the end of the film.

Two teams play golf; the first are Al Czervik and Ty Webb, the second judge is Smails and Dr. Beeper. Although officially banned in Bushwood, there is a lot of money to be played. The team Webb / Czervik threatens to lose, but Czervik increases the stake. He then fakes an injury and asks Noonan, who is the judge's caddy, to stand in for him.

In this important scene, Noonan has to choose between Czervik's dubious offer ("If you win, you'll get half-Jerusalem and a princess.") And the favor of the judge and the scholarship, which was believed to be safe.

Since Noonan has now recognized the mendacity of better society and the judge is fundamentally unsympathetic to him, he decides to play. Of course, he draws the judge's anger ("Then you must never carry my bag again.") , But that doesn't bother him anymore.

As the game progresses, Noonan can shorten the gap and with the last stroke has the opportunity to win the game. The ball gets stuck on the edge of the hole. The judge and the doctor are already celebrating their supposed victory.

Suddenly the golf surface trembles under a series of explosions, initiated by Carl Spackler with the aim of finally bringing down the gopher. The shock of the ground means that the ball rolls into the hole after all, whereupon the Noonan / Czervik / Webb team is awarded the victory.

In the credits you can see how the gopher survived with minor injuries.

Reviews

Vincent Canby wrote in the New York Times on July 25, 1980 that the film looked like a television movie. The portrayal of Bill Murray seems implausible, but the viewer can acknowledge his efforts.

"With no plot to speak of, the film mixes elements of nonsense humor with features of teenage comedy for only occasionally amusing entertainment."

- Lexicon of international film

"Subversive attack on the lawn snobs."

- Cinema

background

The film was shot in Florida . Its production amounted to an estimated 6 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 39.8 million in US cinemas.

In 1988 the sequel Caddyshack II was produced.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Caddyshack: German dialogues
  2. ^ Caddyshack: English dialogues
  3. ↑ Critique from Vincent Canby  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / movies2.nytimes.com  
  4. ↑ Madness without a handicap. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Madness without handicap on cinema.de
  6. ↑ Filming locations for Caddyshack
  7. ^ Business Data for Caddyshack

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