Checking out - everything according to my rules

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Movie
German title Checking Out - Everything according to my rules / Applebaum's big appearance
Original title Checking out
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 94 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Jeff Hare
script Richard Marcus
production Jon Karas ,
Mark Stuart Lane ,
Richard H. Prince
music Nicholas Pike
camera Matthew Jensen
cut Edward R. Abroms
occupation

Checking Out - Everything according to my rules (Original title: Checking Out ) is an American comedy film from 2005 . The film was broadcast on German-language television under the title Applebaums Big Appearance .

action

The eccentric New Yorker Morris Applebaum was a celebrated Shakespeare actor on Broadway and is the father of three grown children. He is now retired, but still a shrewd eccentric who, despite all his vitality, has resolved to end his life in a self-determined way. He plans to approach his ninetieth birthday in the only way that makes sense to him by “leaving” while life is still bearable. In celebration of the day, he sends sealed letters to his children. Immediately, but with mixed feelings, they make their way to Manhattan from different parts of the country : Ted, who unhappily makes a living as a youth psychologist, Flo (rence) is single and works as a sitcom producer, Barry is in the eyes of his father "Nazi car dealer" with wife and two children to whom their grandfather is a stranger.

Morris Applebaum is an incorrigible showman and after various things have been settled, he wants to say goodbye. The first task to be completed was to inform his three mutually estranged children about his suicide plans and to invite them to a party, but also to be able to see his numerous friends again. The Applebaum offspring is now trying to dissuade him from his plan, but has so much to struggle with himself that their unusual father, on the other hand, appears comparatively normal. The divorced psychologist Ted would need therapy himself, Flo struggles with being single as a 40-year-old and has complexities because of her supposedly trivial job, and the family man and car dealer Barry struggles in vain for his father's approval. He incurred his anger because he changed his Jewish name to Apple and sold luxury sedans from Germany, from where Morris and his beloved but deceased wife had fled to the United States. Morris loves his children more than anything, but he was never a simple father, and he is not so easily dissuaded from his plan. Supported by the geronto psychologist Dr. Sheldon Henning, who suddenly falls in love with Flo, the siblings as well as Morris' daughter-in-law and his two grandchildren go in search of Applebaum through Greenwich Village, with the help of a taxi driver friend. Together they go through some of his and her life stations in New York, where Morris crossed the lives of numerous residents and changed them forever.

Reviews

Cinema .de meant, ingenious chamber play with verbal and situational wit based on Allen Swift's play .

Awards

  • 2005: Palm Beach International Film Festival, Best Actress for Laura San Giacomo
  • 2005: Palm Beach International Film Festival, Best Director for Jeff Hare
  • 2005: Phoenix Film Festival, Copper Wing Award , Best Picture , for Jeff Hare
  • 2005: Phoenix Film Festival, Copper Wing Award , Best Screenplay for Richard Marcus
  • 2005: WorldFest Houston, Platinum Award , Independent Theatrical Feature Films & Videos - Comedy for Mark Stuart Lane

backgrounds

The screenplay was written by Richard Marcus based on the 1976 play of the same name by Allen Swift . Checking Out was filmed in New York City , with additional shoots in Los Angeles and Canada. Its world premiere took place on April 10, 2005 on the occasion of the Phoenix Film Festival, and a German DVD was released on February 12, 2008. The comedy was produced by Full Circle Studios and Fully Attired Film Group LLC and is distributed by FilmWorks Entertainment.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b IMDb Release Info
  2. ↑ cinema.de
  3. ↑ a b c d e IMDb Awards
  4. ^ Jeanette Catsoulis: Checking Out (2005) ( English ) New York Times . September 15, 2006. Retrieved July 28, 2015.
  5. ↑ IMDb Company Credits