Breakfast with her
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Breakfast with her |
| Original title | White Palace |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1990 |
| length | 98 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Luis Mandoki |
| script |
Alvin Sargent , Ted Tally |
| production |
Griffin Dunne , Amy Robinson , Mark Rosenberg |
| music | George Fenton |
| camera | Lajos Koltai |
| cut |
Carol Fischer , Carol Littleton |
| occupation | |
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Breakfast at Her (Original Title: White Palace ) is an American drama from 1990 . The director was Luis Mandoki , the screenplay written Alvin Sargent and Ted Tally based on a novel by Glenn Savan . The main roles were played by Susan Sarandon and James Spader .
action
Advertising expert Max Baron lives in St. Louis . He met the waitress Nora Baker in a fast food restaurant. After a bachelorette party, he meets her again in a bar, both of them are drunk. Nora seduces him, massages his intimate parts. When she hears that Max's wife died in a car accident, she laughs first, then she says that her son Charlie died too. It also turns out that Max is Jewish , Nora is a no longer practicing Catholic.
Max brings Nora home in his car, running over Nora's free-standing mailbox. At first he just wants to drink coffee , then he stays with Nora. In the night she comes to him and seduces him. When saying goodbye, Max says that she won't see him again, which makes her sad. A little later Max brings a new mailbox, he and Nora start a relationship. It turns out that Max is 27 and Nora is 43 years old. When he criticized the disorder in Nora's apartment and gave her a vacuum cleaner, an argument broke out. Later, however, Nora does the house cleaning.
One day Max finds Nora's house dark. She has no more electricity because she couldn't pay the bill. When she visits Max in his fancy apartment, he hesitates before revealing that the rent is $ 1200.
At first Max hesitates to introduce Nora to his friends. He does not take Nora to a wedding invitation and lies to her, which Nora finds out by chance and angrily tells him that she will forgive him a lie this once, but not a second time. Eventually they both accept an invitation to a Thanksgiving dinner. A dispute ensues there when the wealthy host speaks condescendingly about the workers in a political discussion. As a member of the working class, Nora feels attacked by his attitude. Then she disappears from the city. In her suicide note, she writes Max that she loves him, but doesn't want him to be ashamed of her.
At a party, Max meets the young hostess, both talk about art. He sees the same vacuum cleaner that he once gave Nora as a present. When he didn't find any traces of use inside, he left the apartment. Max quits his job and moves to New York City , where Nora's sister lives. There he finds Nora in a restaurant where she works as a waitress. He confesses to her that he has finished his old life and moved to New York to start a new life with her. She hesitates, but then agrees.
synchronization
| roll | actor | Voice actor |
| Nora Baker | Susan Sarandon | Gisela Fritsch |
| Max Baron | James Spader | Benjamin Völz |
| Rosemary | Kathy Bates | Kerstin Sanders-Dornseif |
| Neil | Jason Alexander | Tobias Master |
| Rachel | Rachel Chagall | Philine Peters-Arnolds |
| Sherri Klugman | Barbara Howard | Eva Kryll |
Reviews
Roger Ebert compared the film to Pretty Woman in the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper on October 19, 1990 . In this film, however, he wrote, it is not as clear as in Pretty Woman who benefits more from the relationship. According to Ebert, the film raises interesting questions about the chances of unconventional relationships. The last scene, he thought, served idiotic clichés ( an idiotic cliche ).
Desson Howe wrote in the Washington Post on October 19, 1990 that the film trivialized the subject of love between a younger man and an older woman. He described the character of Max Baron as narcissistic , that of Nora Baker as a modern version of Mrs. Robinson . Howe praised the portrayal of Susan Sarandon.
Awards
Susan Sarandon was honored for her role in the film award Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actress in a Drama and won the London Critics Circle Film Award .
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.