Everybody's fine

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Movie
German title Everybody's fine
Original title Everybody's fine
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Kirk Jones
script Kirk Jones
production Vittorio Cecchi Gori ,
Glynis Murray ,
Gianni Nunnari ,
Ted Field
music Dario Marianelli
camera Henry Braham
cut Andrew Mondshein
occupation

Everybody's Fine is a 2009 American movie directed by Kirk Jones , who also wrote the screenplay. It is a remake of the Italian film Allen is fine ( Stanno tutti bene ) by Oscar-winner Giuseppe Tornatore from 1990.

action

After the death of his wife, the planned family reunion of his four children who have moved away seems to revive the monotonous everyday life for the pensioner Frank Goode. While he goes to great lengths to prepare, his children gradually call to cancel. He realizes that his late wife was much closer to them and in order to change this, he decides to pay everyone a surprise visit.

Because of his lung disease, which stems from breathing in PVC gases for years at work, flying is too much physical strain. Instead, he takes the train to travel across the country, because the children live in New York, Chicago, Denver and Las Vegas. In addition to the train route, he can constantly admire his work because he was responsible for the PVC insulation of the telephone cables.

While he is still thinking about the large amount of messages flowing through there, regardless of their positive or negative content, he has to realize on his first destination in New York that he probably did not receive all the latest information about his son David because he received him from the specified address cannot be found. However, he discovers a picture of David in a small gallery, which makes him very proud. After several unsuccessful attempts to find him in the apartment, he decides to continue the journey.

He meets his daughter Amy in Chicago and his son Robert in Denver , but they quickly tell him that the time of their father's visit is very inappropriate. In Las Vegas he is greeted much more exuberantly by his youngest daughter Rosie, but here, too, Frank realizes that some parts of their life do not go together or are hidden from him.

When he starts back, he has to admit that his children are not as happy and successful as he first thought. He had only been given the good news, but the children had always only entrusted their worries and problems to their mother.

As his essential medicine was destroyed by a homeless person whom he actually wanted to help, he decides to take the plane home despite the health concerns. He suffers a heart attack on the flight. In a coma, he recognizes the problems that concern his children. When he wakes up, everyone is with him except David. You have to admit that David was a drug addict and died of an overdose.

After he has recovered, he visits the gallery in New York, where the gallery owner in the depot finds a picture of David for him showing telegraph poles with his father's wires. The gallery owner tells him that David often talked about how his father always encouraged him to become an artist.

Since he finally accepts the way his children live and shows them his impartial interest, it is also possible that they visit him together; the picture of David with the telegraph poles has been given a place of honor in Frank's house.

Soundtracks

The music in the film was released in 2009 by Dario Marianelli .

No. title
1. Frank's Journey Begins
2. Trains
3. You Will Become an Artist
4th Leaving New York
5. Hole in One
6th Telephone poles
7th Robert's Rehearsal
8th. Some nightmares
9. Why Did You All Lie to Me?
10. A Hospital Visit
11. David's painting
12. Christmas Together

Reviews

  • According to Margret Köhler, the film dares to look behind seemingly intact facades. The remake is “more than successful. This is of course mainly due to Robert De Niro, who takes over the role of Marcello Mastroianni at the time and fulfills it 100 percent. How he travels around the area with a small trolley in stoic calm and only very slowly understands that children are not always that or do what parents want - yes, that precisely these parental wishes and demands drive them in a different direction, then is that touching and a bit sentimental. But never maudlin. "
  • Thorsten Funke is a little disappointed. “Nonetheless, the scenes between father and children are each successful, intimate cabinet pieces, for which director Kirk Jones has to thank his excellent ensemble. Unfortunately, especially towards the end of the film, he himself leaves the path of subtlety. A dream sequence at the end, in which the children appear in great detail and explain in great detail what was not said before, as well as a sugar-sweet ending turn a previously badly constructed film into a squeaky attempt at reconciliation. EVERYBODY'S FINE, just. "

synchronization

role Original actor German speakers
Frank Goode Robert De Niro Christian Brückner
Amy Kate Beckinsale Marie Bierstedt
Robert Sam Rockwell Dietmar miracle
Rosie Drew Barrymore Nana Spier
Jilly Katherine Moennig Victoria Storm
Jeff Damian Young Peter Flechtner
Tom James Frain Oliver Siebeck
Young Robert Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick Ben Hugo
Boy amy Lily Mo Sheen Josephine Cesar
Young Rosie Mackenzie Milone Soraya judge
Young David Chandler Frantz Cedric Eich

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Article from March 17th, 2010 br.online  ( 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.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.br-online.de  
  2. ↑ Article from March 10, 2010 critic.de
  3. ↑ Everybody's Fine in the German dubbing index