Curly Sue - A curly head creates a stir
| Movie | |
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| German title | Curly Sue - A curly head creates a stir |
| Original title | Curly Sue |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1991 |
| length | 102 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | John Hughes |
| script | John Hughes |
| production | John Hughes Tarquin Gotch |
| music | Georges Delerue |
| camera | Jeffrey L. Kimball |
| cut |
Peck Prior , Harvey Rosenstock |
| occupation | |
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Curly Sue - A curly head up a storm ( Curly Sue ) is an American comedy film of John Hughes from the year 1991 .
action
The homeless Bill Dancer wanders through the United States with his daughter Curly Sue. They come to Chicago , where Dancer fakes an accident by allowing himself to be hit by the wealthy and ostensibly cold lawyer Gray Ellison. Ellison takes on Dancers and Curly Sues. This doesn't suit her cold-blooded fiancé Walker McCormick at all and he begins to intrigue against them. After a second, unwanted collision , Ellison picks them up in their luxury apartment.
In a conversation with Ellison it turns out that Dancer is not Sue's father at all, but always looked after her lovingly after her mother died early. Ellison discovers that Dancer and Curly Sue have become close to her. At the same time, she also changes her behavior towards her clients in a positive way, which arouses astonishment both with them and with their boss. Ellison and Dancer have the feeling that Sue needs a regular life, Sue sees it a little differently for the time being. She begins to sense what might happen to her.
After a conflict-laden dinner in the posh restaurant, which McCormick also joins, Dancer and Sue run away. Ellison tries to change her mind on the street. Ultimately, however, the two succeed in getting Ellison to spend the evening according to their taste. She is astonished to see what the two of them are doing without a cent in their pockets, and takes pleasure in it. What a contrast to their orderly high society life .
McCormick realizes his skins are swimming away and denounces Dancer and Curly Sue to the guardianship authorities. Sue goes to the home and Dancer to jail. When Ellison found out, she was furious and knocked someone down for the third time, this time her fiancé.
Thanks to their relationships, Ellison manages to get Dancer out of jail and Sue out of the home. The family togetherness can begin and Sue even makes friends with going to school.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of October 25, 1991 that the film was "a greasy, sentimental exercise in manipulating the audience" but was effective in that regard. It is unrealistic from start to finish. Although the plot was "shamelessly sentimental", Ebert accepted it while watching and felt empathy for the characters.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "modern" Christmas fairy tale " , which was" told without fantasy ", presented" wealth without distance "and belittled poverty . He is a "phony assembly line product", sometimes too brutal for younger audiences.
Awards
Alisan Porter won the Young Artist Award in 1993 .
background
The film was in Chicago and Evanston ( Illinois rotated). Its production amounted to an estimated 30 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 33.7 million in US cinemas.
Web links
- Curly Sue - A curly head up a storm in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Curly Sue - A curly head up a storm at Rotten Tomatoes (English)