A crazy summer
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | A crazy summer |
| Original title | One crazy summer |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1986 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Savage Steve Holland |
| script | Savage Steve Holland |
| production | Michael Jaffe |
| music | Cory Lerios |
| camera | Isidore Mankofsky |
| cut | Alan balm |
| occupation | |
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One Crazy Summer is an American comedy film from the year 1986 with John Cusack and Demi Moore in the lead roles.
action
High school graduate Hoops McCann didn't get his basketball scholarship because he'd much rather study drawing at the Rhode Island School of Design . But to apply there, he should make a comic about love. Unfortunately, Hoops has never been in love. And because his head is full of disappointment with his parents, he doesn't manage to finish the comic either. George helps him, who invites him to Nantucket , an island in the US state of Massachusetts , to be with his family for the summer to clear his head a little.
Already on the way to the ferry they meet the young singer and waitress Cassandra, who is being followed by a biker gang and wants to get her stolen money back. Hoops and George help the young lady and unfortunately lose the money in the process. This money is important so that she can help her grandfather pay off the mortgage on his land. When he dies, the situation gets worse for her. She is the heir to his property, but she is penniless and does not know how to get the 3,000 US dollars within a week. If she fails, she will lose both her home and the land. The bank already has a prospect for the property; the wealthy heir Aquilla Beckersted, who wants to transform the country into a residential area including a posh restaurant.
His son Teddy Beckersted is not only an obnoxious guy with a Ferrari, but also harasses Hoops, George and his friends. And he always finds a reason to beat the boys. Unfortunately, Teddy's pretty blonde friend Cookie also falls in love with Hoops, who only has eyes for Cassidy. He impressed her by telling her what a great basketball player he was who would much rather draw. Cassidy also gets closer to Hoops, but she has other worries at the moment, after all she has to find the $ 3,000. And here cookie mixes and kidnapped Hoops proper into the drive-in theater , where she anbandelt with him. Teddy's friends notice this and notify him so that he goes on his way to beat up hoops. However, this can prevent Cassidy, who has just returned from a music performance and offers that Teddy and Hoops should compete in a basketball duel. Unfortunately, Hoops lied and is pathetic at basketball, causing him to lose the duel. And just before Teddy beats up Hoops, Cassidy sprays some tear gas in his eyes, which allows her, Hoops and his friends to escape.
Disappointed by Hoop's lie, Cassidy is furious and doesn't want to see him at first because she has to earn the money with the help of her music performances. When Hoops discovered the bad flyers, he had an idea and, in addition to drawing a cartoon advertising clip, also made better flyers, which made more and more people aware of Cassidy's concert and then went to it. Cassidy receives the required money and wants to submit it to the bank, but the bank informs her that Beckersted has already taken over the mortgage and is himself the rightful owner.
The friends are horrified and are about to give up until Ack Ack has an idea. Every year Teddy Beckersted has to take part in the sailing regatta and win so that his legacy does not deteriorate. If he can't win it, not only does he lose the money, but also his father, which means that the mortgage becomes invalid and Cassidy can keep her home. The only problem is that there is no sailing yacht . A boat in need of renovation can be found quickly, but it must be repaired and rebuilt. After this succeeds, the friends take part in the race and manage to keep up. When the sailing part is over and the engine is supposed to master the return trip, the friends have a special surprise ready. They took Teddy's Ferrari and built it into the boat so that they not only get revenge on Teddy, but also win the regatta.
Grandfather Beckersted then disinherits his son and grandson and also waives the mortgage. Hoops finally won too. He fell in love for the first time, with Cassidy.
synchronization
| role | actor | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Hoops McCann | John Cusack | Pascal Breuer |
| Cassandra Eldrich | Demi Moore | Antonia Haacke |
| Ack Ack Raymond | Curtis Armstrong | Matthias von Stegmann |
| Taylor | Taylor Negron | |
| Old Man Beckersted | William Hickey | Werner Abrolat |
| General Raymond | Joe Flaherty | Gudo Hoegel |
| Aquilla Beckersted | Mark Metcalf | |
| Stan | John Matuszak | |
| Cookie Campbell | Kimberly Foster | Simone Brahmann |
| George Calamari | Joel Murray | Jan Odle |
| Teddy Beckersted | Matt Mulhern | |
| Radio Contest DJ | Rich little | |
| Squid calamari | Kristen Goelz | |
| Egg stork | Bobcat Goldthwait | Christian Tramitz |
| Clay stork | Tom Villard | Udo Wachtveitl |
| Chong Freen, banker | Donald Li | Arne Elsholtz |
| Ty | Jeremy Piven | Gerhard Acktun |
| Biker # 1 | Paul M. Lane | Achim Geisler |
criticism
The film received rather mixed reviews. The Rotten Tomatoes website counted 9 positive out of 15 reviews, which corresponds to a value of 60%. 62% of 13,820 users also rated the film positively. The online film archive IMDb also has a rating of 6.0 out of 10 possible points and 5.821 votes. (As of May 13, 2011)
Nina Darnton of the New York Times attested the film a few laughs (although there are a few jokes at which you may find yourself smiling) , but criticized the fact that the film was written together in a mindless manner and only concentrated on the punch lines. She also smugly added that the film was the ultimate luxury toy because it meant nothing. (This mindless romp written and directed by Savage Steve Holland […] is a string of set-up punch lines. It is the ultimate luxury for the kid who has everything - a film that means nothing.)
Pat Graham criticized in Chicago Reader that the film was not really bad (Not a bad film) , but that it was an occasionally imbecilic teen comedy , ruined by the director's ineradicable penchant for clowning becomes (marred by […] the director's ineradicable penchant for infantile clowning) . However, he liked Holland's drawings, which reminded him of the cartoonist Max Fleischer . (What Holland does extremely well, though, is apply his animator's skills to live-action logistics […] the animated sequences have some of the look and feel of 30s Fleischer)
“Bottomless, stupid slapstick film with shrill ideas and a lot of idle time; only some of the cartoon parts that introduce the 'plot' are amusing. "
production
- Both the actors and the members of the film crew were almost identical to those in the film Lanny turns on .
- For Jeremy Piven this was one of the first roles. He and John Cusack were roommates who had met while taking acting classes in Chicago.
- Some filming locations, including the Generic High School (real: Barnstable High School) , the Generic Elemental (Hyannis West Elementary School) are in Cape Cod , Massachusetts . The scene with the ferry was filmed at The Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket Steamship Authority .
- Hoops McCann was named after the protagonist of the song Glamor Profession from the album Gaucho by the jazz / funk / rock band Steely Dan . The first verse mentions a basketball fan of this name who, as the song progresses, engages in far less reputable activities.
- Because Savage Steve Holland was furious about the reviews from Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert about his latest film Lanny Turns On , he drew two of his rabbits with clear resemblance to the critics. Both were blown up at the end of the film.
- Savange Steve Holland got his Savage prefix while he was in high school on Nantucket when he and his friends, upper-middle-class blonde boys, started a fun gang calling themselves Savages.
- John Cusack already hated the previous film Lanny turns on so much that it was difficult to convince him for A Crazy Summer . Holland promised that he would give the actors a lot of freedom so that they could contribute their own ideas. When Holland showed the film Lanny turns on to the entire crew shortly before the shooting, Cusack is said to have left after 20 minutes. He was so mad at Holland that he yelled at him and couldn't forgive him for making an idiot of him. During the filming, however , Lanny turns on was well received by the professional criticism, so that Bobcat Goldthwait took one of these reviews and pinned it to Cusack on the trailer. However, this did not really change his mind, because even later Cusack Holland only called The Director and stated that the director wanted to have these absurd ideas implemented, which is less his own temperament.
publication
After the film had its US theatrical release on August 8, 1986, it was released in West Germany on September 11, 1987 directly on VHS . The film was only released on DVD in 2006 and celebrated its free TV premiere on June 3, 2010 on VOX .
On the opening weekend, total box office earnings of 13.4 million US dollars were recorded in 984 cinemas, 3.433 million US dollars.
Web links
- One Crazy Summer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- A crazy summer in the German dubbing file
- A crazy summer in the dictionary of international films
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of release for a very crazy summer . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2005 (PDF; test number: 58 177 DVD).
- ↑ A crazy summer. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on October 3, 2019 .
- ^ A crazy summer on rottentomatoes.com , accessed on May 13, 2011
- ↑ Nina Darnton One Crazy Summer (1986) on nytimes.com from August 9, 1986 (English), accessed on May 13, 2011
- ↑ Pat Graham One Crazy Summer on chicagoreader.com October 26, 1986 (English), accessed May 13, 2011
- ^ A b John Cusack: The '80s comedy king rules again in 2010 on nydailynews.com , accessed May 13, 2011
- ^ Gelbert, Doug: "Film and Television Locations: a state-by-state guidebook ...", (2002), McFarland, p. 111.
- ↑ Wil Forbis: An Interview with Curtis Armstrong on acidlogic.com, August 1, 2001, accessed May 13, 2011
- ↑ Better Off Dead - Savage Steve Holland on thesneeze.com March 1, 2004, accessed March 13, 2011
- ↑ A crazy summer on ofdb.de , accessed on May 13, 2011
- ↑ A Crazy Summer on boxofficemojo.com , accessed on May 13, 2011