The heartbreakers
Movie | |
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German title | The heartbreakers |
Original title | Heartbreakers |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1984 |
length | 98 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 16 |
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Director | Bobby Roth |
script | Bobby Roth |
production | Bobby Roth, Bob Weis |
music | Tangerine Dream |
camera | Michael Ballhaus |
cut | John Carnochan |
occupation | |
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The Heartbreakers (Original title: Heartbreakers ) is an American drama film from 1984 directed by Bobby Roth with Peter Coyote and Nick Mancuso in the lead roles. The film ran in 1985 in competition at the Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival . The premiere was on September 28, 1984 in the USA.
action
The film describes the lives of the two friends Blue and Eli: Blue, a less successful painter of erotic pictures, was left by his girlfriend while Eli works in his father's business and is still looking for a permanent partner.
Finally, Blue gets the opportunity to work in a gallery. There he and Eli get to know the gallery owner Liliane, with whom they both fall in love and compete, which endangers their friendship.
criticism
The lexicon of international film criticized that the “fashionably chic film” “hardly does justice to its serious subject”. A "sometimes rude dialogue and the unbalanced mixture of the background and the banal" would leave an "ambivalent impression". The film magazine Cinema saw a "thoughtful film about an unsatisfied yuppie generation with almost European charm". The “noble camera work” by Michael Ballhaus, the music by Tangerine Dream and an “excellent acting” Peter Coyote were highlighted. In conclusion, it is said that the film is a "cool, artificial, sometimes cheerful soul striptease".
Awards
publication
The film opened in US theaters on September 28, 1984 and grossed nearly $ 150,000. In Germany it was released on May 10, 1985 and reached 22,518 viewers. In November 1985 the film was released on VHS.
Web links
- The heartthrob in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The heartbreaker at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- The heartbreakers in the online film database
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Heartbreakers. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ The Heartbreakers. Cinema , accessed September 3, 2014 .
- ↑ Heartbreakers (1984) , boxofficemojo.com
- ↑ The Heartbreakers. Blickpunkt: Film , accessed September 3, 2014 .