Biggest friends
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Biggest friends |
| Original title | The dilemma |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2011 |
| length | 111 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Ron Howard |
| script | Allan Loeb |
| production |
Brian Grazer Vince Vaughn |
| music |
Hans Zimmer Lorne Balfe |
| camera | Salvatore Totino |
| cut |
Daniel P. Hanley Mike Hill |
| occupation | |
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Biggest Friends is a 2011 American tragic comedy starring Vince Vaughn and Kevin James.
action
Ronny and his best friend Nick get an order from an automotive company that is urgently needed for their small business. They should develop a car with an electric drive, which - despite the usually almost silent drive - should offer the engine sound of sporty cars of bygone days. Ronny takes on the commercial part within the company, Nick the technical part.
Ronny is in the botanical garden preparing the wedding proposal to his fiancée Beth when he sees Nick's wife Geneva kissing a strange man. He's torn and doesn't know how to behave. He decides to drive to the workshop where Nick is working on the project. Nick is not ready to interrupt his work for a personal interview and makes it clear to Ronny that he is not doing well due to the stressful situation. Ronny therefore initially decides to keep his secret to himself and leaves the workshop.
He confronts Nick's wife about it, who promises to wipe it clean. She tries to justify her actions by stating that her husband also gets sexual satisfaction in a massage parlor. It later becomes clear that she didn't end her affair. At Ronny's threat to tell his friend and business partner the truth for good, Geneva makes it clear to him through a brilliant acting that Nick would probably rather believe her. She also threatens Ronny that she would tell her husband about a long night of love between the two of them.
Now Ronny has no choice but to find evidence that supports his credibility. He observes the unfaithful wife making love with her lover Zip, but is discovered by the latter. An argument ensues in which some things break. When he later returns to Zip to pick up his camera and, with it, his photos of evidence, he pays $ 1,000 for the damage done in the confrontation and gets his camera back.
Nick observes Ronny doing this exchange and mistakenly thinks Zip is a bookmaker that Ronny, who has overcome his gambling addiction for two years, places his bets on. Nick arranges - assuming that his friend has relapsed - a discussion with everyone involved and a psychologist. It comes to a showdown and although Zip has meanwhile deleted all evidence, Nick's wife Geneva admits the affair.
Before the presentation of the sound system, which has meanwhile been developed by Nick, there is a discussion between Ronny and Nick in the foyer of the car company, during which Ronny also has to take a few hits. Before that, Nick mentions that he has moved out. After all, Nick forgives his best friend; they contest the final presentation together and are commissioned to develop them.
In the final scene, Nick wins a trip for two for a shot in the goal of an ice hockey game. You can see how Ronny encourages him on his last attempt and how both are then happy about the success.
Reviews
“ Biggest Friends is a tragic comedy in which the tragic and the comedy unfortunately don't really come into their own. The result is a film that splashes around and cannot captivate. "
"The unsurprising story and the Hollywood cliché that is often used again and again ensure that the aimless genre mix ultimately loses its potential and should not really convince either comedy fans or friends of subtle relationship stories."
"With the masculine quirk of being able to talk past each other wonderfully, Vaughn and partner Kevin James make some good laughs here - a comedy that is silly in a 'more mature' way than others - that could please the 30+ generation."
"Despondent buddy fun that gives away its subtle potential."
"What is designed as a romantic comedy, subliminally develops into an almost bitter farce about the Janus-faced nature of an unconditional honesty claim in relationships, whereby the film treads on the spot in terms of its staging."
Web links
- The Dilemma in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Dilemma at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official German website for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for thickest friends . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 125 758 K).
- ↑ Age rating for thickest friends . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Critique on cinemagazine.de ( Memento from August 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ a b review on tvheute.at ( Memento from February 22nd, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ criticism. cinema.de
- ↑ criticism. filmdienst.de