A single moment

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Movie
German title A single moment
Original title Reservation Road
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Terry George
script John Burnham Schwartz ,
Terry George
production A. Kitman Ho ,
Nick Wechsler
music Mark Isham
camera John Lindley
cut Naomi Geraghty
occupation

Reservation Road ( Reservation Road ) is an American film drama from the year 2007 . Directed by Terry George , who wrote the screenplay with John Burnham Schwartz based on the novel.

action

Professor Ethan Learner, his wife Grace, and their two children return from a concert. When they stop at a gas station on the way, their ten-year-old son Josh is hit by a car and killed. The driver of the car, lawyer Dwight Arno, fiddled with his cell phone behind the wheel and overlooked the boy. After the accident, he committed hit-and-run.

The divorced Arno is unsure whether to report to the police because he fears that he will lose the right to bring up his son Lucas. Meanwhile, the depressed Ethan Learner neglects his family and looks for the perpetrator. He turns to a law firm and the matter happens to be turned over to Dwight Arno. When Arno decides to surrender, the project fails because the police receive him as Learner's lawyer, whereupon Arno abandons his plan. Meanwhile, the Learners' daughter, Emma, ​​is learning to play the piano with Dwight Arno's ex-wife, Ruth Wheldon.

After an event at the school, which all children attended together, Learner recognized Arno for the first time as the likely driver of the accident vehicle. He keeps researching and is finally certain. Instead of going to the police, he buys a gun and takes him over. However, Learner does not manage to shoot Arno. After he got hold of the weapon during a fight, he offers to kill himself. Arno is left crying, but does not commit suicide.

At the end of the film, the learners hug each other crying and Arno's son sees his father's video in which he confesses the case and says goodbye.

Reviews

James Berardinelli asked on ReelViews why the films about revenge - like The Stranger Within You , Death Sentence and this film - are currently so popular. The deviations of the script from the novel would "dilute" its effectiveness. There are too many coincidences in the film; the end is weak. Some scenes looked as if the filmmakers wanted to "hammer" their views into the audience. Berardinelli was touched by the novel, but not by the film. The "talented" cast do "solid" work.

Manohla Dargis described the film in the New York Times on October 19, 2007 as "mechanistic". It belongs to "those sadistic exercises" that say nothing true or meaningful. The script was written “crudely”, the representations were bad (“crudely plotted, badly acted”). The cut draws parallels between the main male characters, for example by showing one of the men in front of his house before the cut and the other in his house after the cut; a more in-depth consideration is not available.

Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone on October 18, 2007 that even the best actors - including Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo among the best actors of the generation - were incapable of what was conceived as a tragedy but like a soap opera film to rescue.

The lexicon of the international film judges: "Effective drama, in which even the outstanding leading actors cannot hide the over-constructed plot, whereby the film loses a large part of its credibility."

backgrounds

The film was shot in various locations in Connecticut . The world premiere took place on September 13, 2007 at the Toronto International Film Festival . On October 19, 2007, the film opened in selected cinemas in the United States, where it grossed approximately 36,000 US dollars on the opening weekend.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate of the FSK (PDF), accessed on June 13, 2014
  2. ^ Film review by James Berardinelli, accessed October 31, 2007
  3. ^ Film review by Manohla Dargis, accessed October 31, 2007
  4. ^ Film review by Peter Travers, accessed October 31, 2007
  5. ↑ A single moment. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 6, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  6. ^ Filming locations for A Single Moment, accessed October 31, 2007
  7. ↑ Release info for A Single Moment, accessed October 31, 2007
  8. ↑ Box office / business for A Single Moment, accessed October 31, 2007