Dinner for six - Woodstock meets Wall Street

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Movie
German title Dinner for six - Woodstock meets Wall Street
Original title Married to It
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 108 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Arthur Hiller
script Janet Kovalcik
production Thomas Baer ,
Peter V. Herald ,
John Jacobs
music Henry Mancini
camera Victor J. Kemper
cut Robert C. Jones
occupation

Dinner for six - Woodstock meets Wallstreet (alternative title: Dinner for six , Dinner for 6 , family chaos ; original title: Married to It ) is an American comedy film by Arthur Hiller from 1991 .

action

The psychologist Nina Bishop lives in New York City . She is employed in a private school. The school's amateur theater is scheduled to perform a play that thematizes the 1960s. Two couples with their children attending school help prepare the event. They get to know each other and make friends.

Iris and John Morden - who have two sons and experience financial difficulties - mourn the hippie ideals of the 1960s. Morden is invited to talk to school about the Woodstock Festival he was at. He insults the then US President Richard Nixon as a psychopath , which makes the teacher angry.

The marriage of Nina Bishop and investment banker Chuck Bishop is in crisis. Chuck is being sued in connection with illegal financial transactions. The case became known in the media; Chuck is looking for a lawyer, but no one believes he is innocent. Finally he hires a lawyer whom the Mordens recommend.

Claire Laurent and Leo Rothenberg also experience a relationship crisis, as Laurent cannot find a common level of communication with Rothenberg's daughter Lucy from his first marriage to Madeleine. One day Claire is supposed to pick Lucy up after school, but instead she sends a limousine with a driver. The underage Lucy first gets drunk with the alcohol from the minibar of the car, then she comes to Nina, who comforts her.

Nina and Chuck Bishop speak out; Nina accuses the husband, who is unemployed during the investigation, of passivity. He then helps her with the housework again. His lawyer finds exculpatory evidence that allows the case to be closed.

Laurent breaks up with Rothenberg, who leaves their apartment. She bonds with a wealthy entrepreneur for a short time. Iris tries to show Claire that she is still not indifferent to Leo. After Laurent sees a woman mocking the possibility of a happy relationship in the vicinity of her new boyfriend, she leaves the event and goes to the theater performance at the school. There she sits down next to Rothenberg, with whom she is reconciled.

Reviews

James Berardinelli described the film on ReelViews as an "exercise in mediocrity". Nothing is effective in this film. The “lame” comedy only offers a few funny moments. This “bleak, uninspired production” is “too bland to be hated”.

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "solidly staged" and "convincingly cast". He reminded us of the New York City-based films by Woody Allen , although he did not achieve “their expressiveness, wit and tempo”.

The magazine TV Spielfilm wrote that the film was "well cast, but overloaded with all the clichés".

background

The film has been shot in New York City and Toronto since late July 1990. Former New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch appeared in a cameo . The film had its world premiere on September 11, 1991 at the Toronto International Film Festival . It grossed approximately $ 1.99 million in US cinemas .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by James Berardinelli, accessed May 23, 2007
  2. ↑ Dinner for six - Woodstock meets Wall Street. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed May 23, 2007 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ www.tvspielfilm.de, accessed on May 23, 2007
  4. ↑ Info & Tidbits on Married To It. Rotten Tomatoes , archived from the original on September 28, 2004 ; accessed on May 23, 2007 (English).
  5. ^ Filming locations for Married to It, accessed May 23, 2007
  6. ↑ Married to It premiere dates, accessed May 23, 2007
  7. ↑ Box office / business for Married to It, accessed May 23, 2007