The Wrong Guy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The Wrong Guy aka A Killer rarely comes alone |
| Original title | The Wrong Guy |
| Country of production | GB , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1997 |
| length | 92 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | David Steinberg |
| script |
Dave Foley David Anthony Higgins Jay Kogen |
| production | Jon Slan |
| music | Lawrence Shragge |
| camera | David A. Makin |
| cut | Christopher Cooper |
| occupation | |
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The Wrong Guy (alternative title: A killer rarely comes alone ) is a British - Canadian crime drama directed by David Steinberg from 1997 .
action
Nelson Hibbert is a manager in a large company and the son-in-law of the CEO. When he appoints another manager, who is in a relationship with another of his daughters, as his successor on the occasion of his imminent retirement, he is greeted with hateful tirades and threats by the disappointed Hibbert, whom he had once promised to succeed him. Hibbert is then roughly led out of the room by the security staff. Undeterred by this, however, he continues to see himself in the right and therefore decides to visit his boss and father-in-law in his office to give him his opinion again. When he arrives at the CEO's office, he finds him stabbed to death. When he - carelessly - pulls the murder weapon out of his body, he is surprised by the chief secretary and flees in a panic, convinced that the police are now the main suspect. However, after evaluating the surveillance videos, Detective Arlen and the other detectives charged with the investigation already know the real culprit: a contract killer.
On the run, Hibbert runs into the killer several times. Detective Arlen pursues him, but Hibbert believes he is Arlen's target. The killer, on the other hand, considers chance to be a system and suspects that Hibbert is a special investigator who is on his trail.
Detective Arlen is not pushing the investigation, instead he is constantly finding new leisure activities, which he (since they supposedly serve the investigation) bills the taxpayers. The chase reaches its climax when everyone involved clashes at an amusement park in front of replicas of parts of Mount Rushmore and the Statue of Liberty.
Reviews
Christopher Null wrote on efilmcritic.com in 2002 that the film reveals its “ very, very simple premise ” (“ simple, simple ”) in the first ten minutes . He then repeats the same lines of dialogue and gags.
The 3sat film editorial team said it was “a delicious comedy that parodies familiar genre patterns from Hitchcock to Richard Kimble with lots of action and humor ”. It is no coincidence that the original title is reminiscent of Hitchcock's thriller The Wrong Man .
Awards
The script received the 1999 Film Discovery Jury Award from the US Comedy Arts Festival . David Steinberg and Dave Foley were nominated for the Canadian Comedy Award in 2000.
background
The film was produced by HandMade Films and Paragon Entertainment Corporation . It was shot in Toronto . While the film was released in Canada on August 1, 1997, it did not appear on video in the United States until September 2002.
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- ↑ Critique from Christopher Null ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Critique from www.3sat.de
- ^ Company credits for The Wrong Guy
- ^ Filming locations for The Wrong Guy
- ^ Opening dates for The Wrong Guy
Web links
- The Wrong Guy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Wrong Guy at Rotten Tomatoes (English)