The afterlife in Denver
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The afterlife in Denver |
| Original title | Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1995 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Gary Fleder |
| script | Scott Rosenberg |
| production | Cary Woods |
| music | Michael Convertino |
| camera | Elliot Davis |
| cut | Richard Marks |
| occupation | |
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead is an American feature from director Gary Fleder from the year 1995 . The film has a star cast, but it was not a commercial success.
action
The elegant Jimmy, known as The Saint , has actually already withdrawn from the underworld. He started the business "Afterlife Advice", where the terminally ill can leave messages for close relatives on videos. Business is slow, but Jimmy is in the chalk with the paraplegic gang boss, the man with the plan . From this he is therefore forced to become active one last time. The boss has a boy suffering from paraphilia who has not coped with the separation from his long-time friend Meg and is still mourning her. Jimmy is supposed to scare Bruce, the fiancé of his son's ex-girlfriend, so that he will break up with her.
Jimmy hires his former gang, including the psychopathic and impulsive Critical Bill, who disguises himself as a police officer along with Pieces (who suffers from a circulatory disorder that makes him lose limbs) in order to stop Bruce, who is driving with Meg in the car and beat up away from the car. Because Bruce becomes suspicious and does not allow himself to be lured out of the car, but mocks the two, Critical Bill loses self-control and, contrary to his instructions, kills Bruce. Then Meg, sleeping in the back of the car, wakes up and is killed by Pieces. The whole plan has thus failed catastrophically.
The man with the plan confronts Jimmy with a decision: Jimmy has 48 hours to vanish into thin air. The rest of the gang is eliminated, whereby the killer is supposed to be as cruel as possible with shots in the anus of his victims. However, Jimmy does not think about abandoning his friends and his new love Dagney. The professional killer hired by the man with the plan kills all but Jimmy one after the other, but is mortally wounded by his last victim, Critical Bill.
Before Jimmy faces the next killer squad, he fulfills a friend's wish to have a child for her, and then kills the son of the man with the plan , thereby taking his only offspring with him to death. One narrator, the man in the diner , finally reports that the man with the plan never committed another crime afterwards.
reception
Things to do in Denver when you're dead was only shown in 36 movie theaters in the USA. The grossing results here amounted to 529,766 US dollars. In Germany, the film did not make it into the cinemas.
The renowned film critic Roger Ebert wrote that you could like the film if you don't expect a masterpiece and like the dialogues in Tarantino films ("(...) a movie you might enjoy if (a) you don't expect a masterpiece, and ( b) you like the dialogue in Quentin Tarantino movies ”).
Publications
There are at least two German-language DVD releases. The last one from 2005. The film can also be found on DVD inserts for magazines.
Remarks
- The English film title goes back to a song by the American singer-songwriter Warren Zevon in 1991.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=thingstodoindenverwhenyouredead.htm
- ↑ https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/things-to-do-in-denver-when-youre-dead-1996
- ↑ cf. Computer Bild 16/2010 ( Memento of the original dated August 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead in the Internet Movie Database (English)