A treasure to fall in love with

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Movie
German title A treasure to fall in love with
Original title Fool's Gold
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 112 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 6
Rod
Director Andy Tennant
script John Claflin
Daniel Zelman
Andy Tennant
production Donald De Line
Bernie Goldmann
Jon Klane
music George Fenton
camera Don Burgess
cut Troy Takaki
Tracey Wadmore-Smith
occupation

A treasure to fall in love with (original title: Fool's Gold ) is a romantic adventure film from 2008 by director Andy Tennant , who was also involved in the script. The main roles were played by Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson .

action

Ben "Finn" Finnegan is a treasure hunter obsessed with finding legendary treasure. On July 24, 1715, a fleet of ships with treasures started from Havana in the direction of Spain and disappeared seven days later in a hurricane . Finn tries to find their precious cargo on the ocean floor. During his hunt for the treasure, however, his marriage with his wife breaks up and she divorces him.

One day he discovers a shard of a plate on the bottom of which the family coat of arms of the family of one of the captains of the Spanish fleet can be seen, and thus for the first time has a decisive clue as to the coordinates of the treasure. While recovering the Shard, his boat explodes and sinks. This gives him trouble with a gangster named Bigg Bunny, who gave him 62,000 US dollars lent to repair the ship.

When the wealthy Nigel Honeycutt anchors his luxurious yacht near the island, Finn tries to convince him to become his new investor. He learns that his ex-wife Tess works as a stewardess on his ship. Both manage to convince Honeycutt that he will finance their search. But since Finn had to leave the found shard to his former financier Bigg Bunny in the meantime, he has now got a clue about the location of the treasure and joins Finn's former treasure hunter colleague Moe Fitch to also look for the treasure do. By evaluating other written sources in a church, Finn and Tess reinterpret the story and discover that the treasure was carried from the ship to the island's grotto, which is inaccessible for most of the year due to the surf.

They actually succeed in recovering the treasure, and finally they both confess their love for one another and marry again.

Soundtracks

A treasure to fall in love with, music by George Fenton .

No. title
1. Fool's Gold Legend and Main Title
2. Where's the Boat?
3. Debt Collector (Bigg Bunny)
4th Man overboard
5. Late for the hearing
6th Where's the plate?
7th The Nigel Factor
8th. Saving Gemma's Hat
9. Aurelia and the Queens Dowry
10. The Stand Off (Fool's Gold Theme)
11. Sabotaging the grid
12. Tess's theme
13. The Day Dive
14th Discovering the Canon
15th The Aurelia Stone
16. Trouble In the Churchyard
17th A deathtrap
18th Finn To the Rescue
19th The Treasure, the Kidnap and the Sea Plane
20th A Nice ... Soft ... Landing (Tess's Theme)
21st Sharing the spoils
22nd Love and Affection
23. You Can Get It If You Really Want
24. Call Me Thumper
25th Truly Madly Deeply

background

The shooting extended from November 1, 2006 to May 2007 and took place in various locations in the Australian state of Queensland , some scenes were also shot on the Bahama island of Eleuthera . The island location in the beginning was Lizard Island, Australia.

Production costs were around 70 million US dollars estimated. The film grossed around 111 million US dollars in cinemas worldwide, including around 70 million US dollars in the USA and around 2.7 million US dollars in Germany.

The film premiered on February 7, 2008 in Australia. The cinema release in the USA was on February 8, 2008, in Germany and Switzerland on April 24, 2008 and one day later in Austria.

Filming was delayed because a large number of box jellyfish prevented the main actors from continuing the scenes that were playing in the water.

The yacht seen in the film was designed by Jack W. Sarin, built in New Zealand and named Keri Lee. She can accommodate up to twelve people and can be chartered for $ 120,000 per week.

Reviews

On Rotten Tomatoes , the film was rated with an overall rating of just 10% from 139 counted reviews, and among the 30 top critics it even received the worst rating of 0%. The overall consensus was: "With little chemistry among the actors, humorless gags and a predictable plot, the film fails on every level."

James Berardinelli wrote on Reel Views : The ones in the comedy How do I get rid of him - in 10 days? The already inconsistent chemistry between the main characters has almost completely evaporated in this film. McConaughey looks like a burnt out surfer in dire need of a shower, shave, and haircut. Kate Hudson is a little flat (which relates to her performance and not her other attributes), but that is the story of her career following her role as Penny Lane in Almost Famous . Both main actors would also seem passive.

Gebhard Hölzl wrote on Monsters and Critics : “Scavenger hunt, love story, swimwear show or underwater adventure? The authors John Claflin and Daniel Zelman, already responsible for the groundbreaking screenplay for Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid , may not really make up their minds. Symptomatic of this is the (involuntarily funny) scene in which Finn and Tess explain why the Spanish ship once sank and where. It takes ten minutes and then as a viewer you know just as much / little as before. […] 'Fool's Gold' is the original name of the slapstick, translated as 'fool's gold' - does the title refer to the entrance fee? "

The lexicon of international films judged: "An honest mixture of screwball comedy and adventure film, which varies genre standards, but does not find an original approach to the subject despite the impressive actors and settings."

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating “valuable”: “Refreshing, how the cliché of the brisk stupid is broken again and again, only to be used again, only to break it again. Such lightness does not necessarily make this comedy a treasure trove of film history, but it lifts it out of the monotony of cheap dozen comedies. This is a varied popcorn cinema that works, doesn't really hurt anyone but the bad guys and almost always entertains the audience very well. "

Nominations and Awards

Kate Hudson received a nomination for the negative award Golden Raspberry 2009 for Worst Actress .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for a treasure to fall in love with . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 716 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for a treasure to fall in love with . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ a b c Budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  5. ↑ box office results according to boxofficemojo.com
  6. ↑ a b Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  7. ↑ a b c Background information according to the Internet Movie Database
  8. ↑ Lee Group Charters ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Last accessed: September 2, 2012  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.leegroupcharters.com.au
  9. ^ Film review , Rotten Tomatoes
  10. ^ Film review , James Berardinelli , 2008
  11. ↑ Film review  ( 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. , Gebhard Hölzl, Monsters and Critics, April 19, 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.monstersandcritics.de  
  12. ↑ A treasure to fall in love with. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  13. ↑ A treasure to fall in love with on fbw-filmbassy.com
  14. ↑ Nominations and awards according to the Internet Movie Database

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