The fabulous Baker Boys

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Movie
German title The fabulous Baker Boys
Original title The Fabulous Baker Boys
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1989
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Steve Kloves
script Steve Kloves
production Mark Rosenberg , Paula Weinstein
music Dave Grusin
camera Michael Ballhaus
cut William Steinkamp
occupation
synchronization

The Fabulous Baker Boys (Original title: The Fabulous Baker Boys ) is an American feature film from 1989.

action

The brothers Frank and Jack Baker playing for fifteen years together as a bar pianist in the hotels and lounges of the city Seattle . However, what was once a successful duo is now pretty dusty: the same hits, the same locations, the same jokes every evening. For the jazz talent Jack, this life, which he is forced to lead by the side of his staid, only moderately gifted brother, has become unbearable. However, he doesn't have the courage to change and so he drowns his frustration in whiskey and looks for variety in various one-night stands .

When the brothers get fired from their engagement by bar owner Charlie one evening due to the sluggish business, Frank decides to hire a singer. At the end of a nerve-wracking casting, she finally finds herself in the unemployed escort lady Susie Diamond. Susie is not only attractive, but also has a velvety seductive voice and so she helps the duo quickly to a new upswing and increasing income. However, it soon creates a crisis mood within the combo. Her unconventional manner and her innovative ideas do not meet with much approval from the conservative Frank and it is unmistakable that there is a crackling between her and Jack.

When the band is booked by a luxury Californian hotel between Christmas and New Years , Frank watches them with suspicion. However, he cannot keep her under his control for long as he suddenly has to return home because of an accident his young son has. Susie and Jack play the New Year's Eve show alone and spend a passionate night together. However, both are unable to admit to one another that deeper feelings are now at play; From then on, out of false pride and fear of being too close, they evade each other.

Frank sees his longstanding project and his relationship with his brother Jack in jeopardy; he starts bullying Susie . In the end, she can't take the pressure anymore and leaves the combo, but not without throwing at Jack how cowardly it is of him to squander his talent like that. The Baker Boys are now without a singer again and more unsuccessful than ever. One evening there is a scandal between the brothers, which culminates in a fight. In anger, Jack throws his exit from the project at his brother's feet. He tries to resume his one night stands but finds he can't forget Susie. Finally he realizes that he has to take his life into his own hands and "clean up" it. He decides to accept an offer from a jazz club owner to finally be able to make his own music. He is reconciled with Frank and the two end the collaboration by mutual agreement. At last he goes to see Susie; there is a timid approach.

background

The hotel scenes were filmed in the former Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles , which was used as the backdrop for many films such as The Graduation and Catch Me If You Can . In 1968 Robert F. Kennedy was murdered in this hotel .

In the film, several songs are sung very convincingly by Michelle Pfeiffer herself. The soundtrack for the film was released under the label GRP Records by jazz musician Dave Grusin .

The famous Ballhaus spinning top can also be seen in this film . Michelle Pfeiffer, lying on a grand piano in front of Jeff Bridges, sings the song Makin 'Whoopee as the camera circled them.

In the scene in which the Baker brothers appear on the local charity television program in support of the construction of a gym, the operator Earl the Pearl , played by actor Bradford English , throws pianist Jack Baker after he assaulted the TV host , from the television studio and admonished him with the words “ Who do you think you are, you asshole, Horowitz? ". The man alludes to the famous Russian pianist Vladimir Horowitz , one of the most important piano virtuosos of the 20th century.

synchronization

role actor speaker
Jack Baker Jeff Bridges Joachim Tennstedt
Susie Diamond Michelle Pfeiffer Katja Nottke
Frank Baker Beau Bridges Norbert Gescher
Lloyd Xander Berkeley Michael Pan
Charlie Dakin Matthews Hans Nitschke
Ray Ken Lerner Bernd Rumpf
Henry Albert Hall Jörg Döring
Theo Todd Jeffries Klaus Lochthove
Monica Noran Jennifer Tilly Janina Richter

Reviews

“Excellent photographed and convincingly played film, told as old-fashioned as it is timeless; in-depth cinema entertainment in the best sense of the word, ”said the lexicon of international films .

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times said that the film follows an old formula that has already been used several times, but that it was “interestingly cast” and staged with “a sure hand for the material”. Michelle Pfeiffer is literally blossoming - and not only as a woman, but also as an actress who you can empathize with. Ebert compared her appearance on the song Makin 'Whoopee with the shows of Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946) and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot (1959).

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Fabulous Baker Boys. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ The Fabulous Baker Boys. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ^ Review on rogerebert.com, October 13, 1989.