The house of cards
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The house of cards |
| Original title | House of Cards |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 109 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Lessac |
| script | Michael Lessac Robert Jay Litz |
| production | Vittorio Cecchi Gori |
| music | James Horner |
| camera | Victor Hammer |
| cut | Walter Murch |
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The House of Cards is a 1993 American family drama . Directed by Michael Lessac .
action
The film is about Sally Matthews, a six-year-old ingenious girl who, after a traumatic experience, the death of her father, withdraws inside her and shows strange talents. Sally's father is an archaeologist in South America, where he lives with his wife and children. The very linguistically gifted girl can talk to the locals quickly. When climbing an Inca pyramid at night, the father falls and dies. The mother Ruth Matthews ( Kathleen Turner ) returns to the USA with Sally and her older brother after the death of her husband. Sally begins to act strangely. She no longer speaks, reacts to changes in her surroundings with hysterical screams and seems to completely isolate herself from her surroundings. The mother ignores this behavior until one day she sees Sally in the gutter of the house (the girl is fetching a baseball that her brother threw there). Ruth tries to save her daughter, but Sally starts screaming because of her mother's changed hat and cannot be calmed down. The Autism -expert Jake Beer Lander ( Tommy Lee Jones ), who just appears at a cold call, you come to the rescue. Beerlander recognizes autistic traits in Sally and after some persuasion takes her to his clinic to subject her to a classical therapy; but it doesn't work.
After a few incidents, Sally is brought back home, where one evening she builds a huge house of cards that does not seem to adhere to gravity. Ruth realizes that this house of cards is the key to her daughter's consciousness and builds the house of cards in a forest clearing. In a dream, Ruth climbs the house of cards together with Sally. The film ends with a real mother-daughter encounter on the house of cards. Sally speaks again and has had no traumatic consequences.
criticism
“An actually interesting film on the subject of autism, but one that deals with the medical history too broadly to be convincing. Good performance and the consistent use of the potential for tension still ensure a largely entertaining film. "
Web links
- The house of cards in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- movie-reviews.net: House of Cards (engl.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The house of cards. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .