The great Mackenzie
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The great Mackenzie |
| Original title | The Big Tease |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 83 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Kevin Allen |
| script |
Craig Ferguson Sacha Gervasi |
| production | Philip Rose |
| music | Mark Thomas |
| camera | Seamus McGarvey |
| cut | Chris Peppe |
| occupation | |
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The Big Tease is an American comedy film from the year 1999 .
action
Crawford Mackenzie is a regionally known hairdresser from Glasgow . When he is invited to Los Angeles by the World Hairdressing International Federation (WHIF) for the platinum scissors competition, the world hairdressing championship , he is overjoyed. The documentary filmmaker Martin Samuels accompanies him on his trip to the USA. Mackenzie is amazed at the friendliness of Hollywood and his hotel until it turns out he can't pay the bill. Ordinarily, WHIF would pay for its entrants, but it turns out that Mackenzie wasn't even invited to the competition, just followed a formal letter to viewers. Mackenzie would still like to represent his native Scotland as a participant . But for that he would first have to be a member of WHIF.
After Mackenzie is kicked out of Century Plaza, he stays in a cheap motel and sets out to work at a hair salon for at least a day in order to maintain his membership. But his great role model, the Norwegian star hairdresser and reigning world champion Stig Ludwigssen, is not helpful to Mackenzie. He makes fun of him. Mackenzie was also denied a job at other salons in town. Mackenzie therefore seeks out the Hollywood agent Candy Harper, does her hair and wins her over. With the help of Sean Connery he tries to take part in the competition. But Connery is too busy. Harper gets him a job at an amusement park, where he does the hairdressing of the amateur actors' animal costumes. In return he receives his desired membership card from WHIF, but he is still not allowed to take part in the competition.
The subsequent help of Drew Carey and Mackenzie's poor voice imitation of Sean Connery still do not help to be allowed to participate in the competition. However, Connery's brazen attempt to imitate the competition impressed Senator Warren Crockett, and Mackenzie took part. However, he stirs up the envy of Ludwigssens, who sabotaged Mackenzie's equipment, so that it looks like a clear defeat. All the other competitors gave their models spectacular hairstyles, so it was only thanks to the help of Harper and his friends that Mackenzie got another chance to give a model the winning hairstyle with additional time. As the penultimate participant, Ludvigssen already seems to be the winner with a six-fold score. But when Mackenzie's model comes on stage and presents his creation, the Scottish flower, he is rated six times with an 11 rating, so that he can win the competition and thus the world championship.
criticism
In the Chicago Sun-Times , Roger Ebert said that the comedy would not really work because the laughs would not build a story, but would come too often "all at once," making the comedy look uneven. However, he praised the game by Frances Fisher and found " Craig Ferguson , a gifted comedian from Glasgow" just "sympathetic."
Although Stephen Holden of the New York Times found the film "moderately amusing," he said the film was still "charming enough to please you." Especially because it focuses on the fact that vanity is one of the stupidest values in life.
The lexicon of international films said: “A comedy staged as an interesting semi-documentary that targets vanities and uses the fashion milieu as a foil for subtle entertainment. The cleverly constructed film offers an English television star the opportunity to appear in the cinema. "
publication
The film had its world premiere in October 1999 at the Chicago International Film Festival . It celebrated its first theatrical release on November 26, 1999 in Brazil. It started in the US on January 28, 2000 and was only able to reap a little more than 180,000 US dollars at the box office. In Germany, the film was released directly on VHS on December 14, 2001 .
Web links
- The Big Tease in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Big Tease at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roger Ebert : The Big Tease on suntimes.com of February 11, 2000 (English), accessed on August 23, 2012
- ↑ Stephen Holden : Big Tease ': Hollywood Mockumentary at nytimes.com , accessed August 23, 2012
- ↑ The great Mackenzie. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The Big Tease (2000) on boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed August 23, 2012