Once is never (2012)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Once is never |
| Original title | One for the money |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Julie Anne Robinson |
| script |
Stacy Sherman Karen Ray Liz Brixius |
| production |
Wendy Finerman Tom Rosenberg Sidney Kimmel Gary Lucchesi |
| music | Deborah Lurie |
| camera | James Whitaker |
| cut | Lisa Zeno Churgin |
| occupation | |
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Once is not a time is an American film from 2012. It is the literary film adaptation of the 1994 novel by Janet Evanovich . The film opened in German cinemas on April 19, 2012.
action
The divorced Stephanie Plum is on the verge of bankruptcy: six months after her resignation from Macy’s , she only has four dollars in her bank account, doesn't know how to pay the next rent and has to watch her car being seized. Her grandmother helps her by giving her her own car and getting a job as a secretary for her cousin Vincent "Vinnie" Plum. Since they are not looking for a secretary there, she simply hires her as a bail hunter and immediately takes on the largest assignment, the bail is set at $ 500,000 and would bring her 10% of that as a bonus. She is supposed to hand over the fugitive cop Joe Morelli to the police, who is charged with the murder of a drug dealer. Joe is not unknown to her, however, because a previous love story connects the two with each other.
Stephanie can track him down relatively quickly, but not arrest him, because he overpowers her, throws her car keys in the trash and drives away. In order to rule out such inferiorities in the future, she takes advice from her work colleague Ricardo Carlos Manoso, who not only buys her a gun, but also shows her how to shoot with it. So armed she goes in search of Joe. His mother is still silent, but Eddie Gazzara, her cousin's husband who works for the police, gives her the name of a possible witness, the prostitute Carmen Sanchez. Stephanie tries to track them down at Jimmy Alpha's boxing club. She wants to talk to the martial artist Benito Ramirez, who, however, physically harasses her. Joe, who shoots Ramirez in an ambush, enables Stephanie to escape, but she is again unable to arrest Joe and is now threatened on the phone as a result of the events at the Ramirez boxing club.
After doing a small job, she steals Joe's car to lure him and arrest him. Instead, he breaks into her apartment and handcuffs her to her shower to find his car keys. Since he cannot find her, he withdraws without having achieved anything. Stephanie is able to free herself with the help of Manoso and follows up further clues in Stark Street to speak to some people there. However, it is precisely these people who are injured or killed: Cho falls from the fourth floor of his house, the prostitute Lula is beaten up and Carmen's apartment is attacked with a Molotov cocktail . Now it seems credible to Stephanie that she is being followed. Fortunately, Joe finds her in her apartment and asks them to help each other as Ramirez is trying to kill her. When Morty Beyers shows up the next day and steals her car keys, Joe's car is exploded by a car bomb .
Stephanie escapes the attack intended for her, however, which cannot prevent her and Joe from tracking down the real culprits for the murder of Coliza. Joe attaches a microphone under Stephanie's clothes and follows her at a distance. By chance she finds the only witness to Coliza's murder, and she and Joe follow him to his boat. There they discover heroin and hear how the witness and another person are executed in a truck not far from the dock. Arriving at the corpses they are surprised by Ramirez, who beats Joe up, but can be overpowered with Stephanie's pepper spray . Jimmy Alpha suddenly appears and wants to kill them both, but Stephanie can shoot him. Since Joe was handcuffed in the truck, she locks the trailer and drives the truck to the nearest police station to collect her reward. Since Joe's innocence has been proven, he is quickly released.
criticism
“Heigl's job as a 'recovery agent' does quite well, as an overwhelmed but charming bailiff. Director Robinson is also by no means squeamish when it comes to playing out all the physical stimuli that Heigl has at his disposal. [...] But if you don't take the bizarre screen events and their inconsistencies too literally, then you can very well enjoy this somehow rare, but at least courageous mixture of comedy, romance, crime and slapstick. "
“Nothing against Katherine Heigl with chubby cheeks and curly brown hair, but the way she jitterily cheats through an insignificant plot is of rather harmless entertainment value. Director Julie Anne Robinson only confirms traditional gender clichés instead of ironically catching them up. A few uninspired teasing between men and women does not result in a screwball comedy. "
"Unimaginative romantic comedy with clichéd gender roles and racist stereotypes that ignites neither in terms of comedy nor love."
Awards
Heigl was nominated as the worst actress for the Golden Raspberry .
background
In October 2010, writer Janet Evanovich stated that she sold the film rights back in 1997 and the script has been in development since then. In February 2010 it was announced that Katherine Heigl would star and in April 2010 that Julie Ann Robinson would direct. The film opened in US theaters on January 19, 2012 and has since grossed just over 36 million US dollars worldwide with an estimated production budget of 40 million US dollars. In Germany, the film was seen by a little more than 120,429 cinema viewers.
Web links
- One for the Money in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Once is never in the online film database
- One is nothing in rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for once is not once . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2012 (PDF; test number: 132 426 K).
- ↑ Once is never on focus.de , accessed on April 23, 2012
- ↑ "Once is never a time": Handcuffs for the ex-lover on Abendblatt.de from April 19, 2012, accessed on April 23, 2012
- ↑ Once is never in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed on April 23, 2012
- ↑ http://www.goldderby.com/awardshows/events/razzie-awards-nominations-2012.html
- ^ Mike Hayward: Janet Evanovich discusses Twelve Sharp and much else . 2006. Retrieved July 16, 2007.
- ↑ Dave McNary, Tatiana Siegel: Heigl in the 'Money' . In: Variety.com , February 8, 2010. Retrieved March 19, 2010.
- ^ Nicole Sperling: Katherine Heigl crime thriller 'One For the Money' acquired by Lionsgate. In: Hollywood Insider. April 29, 2010; Archived from the original on April 30, 2010 ; accessed on June 23, 2014 .
- ↑ One For The Money (2012) at boxofficemojo.com , accessed December 8, 2012
- ↑ TOP 100 DEUTSCHLAND 2012 on insidekino.de , accessed on December 8, 2012