A charming disgust

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Movie
German title A charming disgust
Original title Once around
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 110 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Let Hallström
script Malia Scotch Marmo
production G. Mac Brown , Richard Dreyfuss, Griffin Dunne , Amy Robinson
music James Horner
camera Theo van de Sande
cut Joseph Gutowski , Andrew Mondshein
occupation

Once Around (Original title: Once Around ) is an American film drama from 1991. The director led Lasse Hallstrom , the writer wrote Malia Scotch Marmo . Richard Dreyfuss and Holly Hunter played the leading roles .

action

Renata Bella meets Sam Sharpe, the much older and wealthy entrepreneur of Lithuanian descent. Sharpe especially likes to drive around the roundabout island several times. Renata marries him despite the doubts of her father Joe and her sister Jan. She asks her sister that she is pretending to be a happy marriage and secretly flirting with Jim Redstone.

Renata becomes pregnant and has a child. Sam sets the date of baptism according to a Lithuanian tradition. Since Renata's sister and her husband, who are to be godparents, are planning vacations for this date, a dispute ensues. Renata no longer wants to see her family during the ceremony. Her father later talks to her and forbids her to visit the family with Sam. He says Sam is going to ruin the family .

At first the baptism takes place only with Renata, Sam and a Lithuanian priest. The door of the church opens, Renata's parents and siblings enter. She is very pleased about it. At the end of the baptism, Sam had a heart attack .

The reconciled family celebrates Christmas together . All family members worry about Sam's health and whether the dishes are suitable for a man with heart disease. Only Joe thinks a man should make his own decisions about his health. Sam smokes a cigarette, Renata argues with him. Sam says he is more alive than ever despite the illness.

Sam dies a little later. When the motorcade driving to the funeral reaches a roundabout, Joe orders them to do a few laps around the roundabout in honor of the greatest .

Reviews

  • Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on January 18, 1991 that the film left him speechless . It is a good film, but not in a conventional way. Ebert praised the character of Sam Sharpe and the offensive portrayal of Richard Dreyfuss. He also praised the intense portrayal of Holly Hunter and the sensitive ( delicate ) portrayal of Danny Aiello as well as the dialogues of the film.
  • "Tragic comedy with an excellent cast, whose life-affirming story loses its entertainment value and emotional power due to an overly head-heavy staging." - " Lexicon of International Films " (CD-ROM edition), Systhema, Munich 1997
  • The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

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