Tuesdays at Morrie (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tuesdays at Morrie's |
| Original title | Tuesdays With Morrie |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Mick Jackson |
| script | Thomas Rickman |
| production |
Oprah Winfrey , Forte Card , Jennifer Ogden |
| music | Marco Beltrami |
| camera | Theo van de Sande |
| cut | Carol Littleton |
| occupation | |
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Tuesdays at Morrie is a 1999 television film by director Mick Jackson , based on the book of the same name by Mitch Albom . The book and film describe the real relationship between the journalist Mitch Albom and the terminally ill sociology professor Morrie Schwartz .
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Mitch Albom is a popular sports columnist for the Detroit Free Press . Although he is successful in his job, the job is not enough for him. By chance one night he becomes aware of his former college professor Morrie Schwartz on a news program, whom he lost sight of after completing his studies. Mitch finds out that the 78-year-old is now suffering from the nerve disease ALS and is sitting in a wheelchair. To the journalist's surprise, a first meeting of the two is very amicable, although Mitch feels guilty about having lost touch with Morrie. A discussion about life, happiness and death both continue in weekly meetings in which Mitch slips into the role of the student again until Morrie's death. After just a few weeks, the old friendship between the two of them has blossomed again and they begin to question the superficial, ego-charged absurdity of the sports world. Mitch realizes that Morrie's imminent death has not made the college professor a bitter old man. He's still a bubbly teacher with a keen mind whose slow death makes things see things with incredible clarity.
History of origin and first broadcast
Morrie Schwartz was Albom's former college professor at Brandeis University in the 1970s . After Albom had not had any contact with him for 16 years, he happened upon the news program Nightline in March 1995 on his old mentor, who was interviewed by the journalist Ted Koppel. He then visited it for 14 weeks, every Tuesday.
Mitch Albom's novel based on the meetings that took place featured Oprah Winfrey at her book club and she liked it so much that she decided to produce a film based on it. In addition to Oprah Winfrey, Kate Forte and Jennifer Odgen also worked as producers. The executive production companies were Harpo Productions, owned by Oprah Winfrey, and Carlton America. The film was shot in Los Angeles and Santa Carlita, California.
The first broadcast in the USA took place on December 5, 1999 on the television station ABC , the German first broadcast took place on May 27, 2001 on VOX .
Reviews
Ray Richmond of the US industry service Variety noted that screenwriter Tom Rickman would have stuck to the literary source, but played down and toned down Albom's insight and sensitivity. He praised the two leading actors Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria: "Lemmon alludes to his best work ... Azaria shows the most complex and sensitive portrayal of his career," said Richmond. Similar complained also James Poniewozik ( Time ): "No matter how good the literary model may be, their Carpe Diem - aphorisms transmitted is not well with the film to a handle in the eye all means apply to the lacrimal gland In his review on Filmcritic.com, Peter Croatto also criticizes the fact that, at least in the film, Morrie's wisdom is not really convincing, but he also rates Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria's performance as positive.
Awards
For his last feature film role, Jack Lemmon won the Emmy , the Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award . Co- actor Hank Azaria also won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild. Other awards include the Writers Guild of America Award , the Humanitas Award and the Directors Guild of America Award for Mick Jackson . Winfrey also won Emmy and Producers Guild of America awards as a producer .
Web links
- Tuesdays with Morrie in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Tuesdays with Morrie in the Kabeleins Film Lexicon
- Tuesdays at Morrie in the All Movie Guide (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. Transcript for the Larry King TV show on December 3, 1999 with Mitch Albom and Jack Lemmon (accessed August 21, 2009 via LexisNexis Wirtschaft )
- ↑ cf. Brevern, Alexa von: Then you will learn how to live . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , March 4, 2000
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↑ Tuesdays With Morrie ': Winfrey produces TV film - on CNN February 12, 1999
- ↑ cf. Ray Richmond: Oprah Winfrey presents: Tuesday with Morrie . In: Variety, November 29 - December 5, 1999, p. 33
- ↑ James Poniewozik: Tuesdays With Morrie in Time magazine from December 6, 1999
- ↑ Tuesdays with Morrie ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on filmcritic.com (accessed August 21, 2009)
- ↑ Strictly speaking, it is not his last appearance in a feature film, but only his last film appearance, in which he is mentioned in the credits . His actual last appearance, however, was the role of the narrator in Robert Redford's The Legend of Bagger Vance .
