Normally in love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Normally in love |
| Original title | The Other Sister |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 129 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
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| Director | Garry Marshall |
| script | Garry Marshall Alexandra Rose Blair Richwood |
| production | David Hoberman |
| music | Rachel Portman |
| camera | Dante Spinotti |
| cut | Bruce Green |
| occupation | |
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An American film from 1999 is in love with normal . The tragic comedy describes the young love and the striving for independence of two young people who are both mentally retarded.
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The young woman Carla Tate comes from the best circumstances of the American upper class - the father is a doctor, the mother is socially committed and the siblings are all in the starting blocks for their own careers. Only one small thing tarnishes the image of the perfect American family: Carla is retarded and on the intellectual level of a child.
As a child she was deported to a special boarding school, from which she returns after 10 years with a school leaving certificate and many future plans, for example she would like to move into her own apartment for the first time in her life. But she cannot realize this plan because her overly cautious mother, who is always concerned about the well-being of her child, prevents her from implementing her urge for freedom and independence. To make matters worse, Carla falls in love with Daniel, a young man who has a similar intellectual disability. Together they experience the unknown feeling of being in love and they help each other on the way to a more independent life.
As a subplot, the film also deals with the homosexuality of Carla's sister and the difficulty for the parents to accept this type of relationship as well.
Reviews
- Lexicon of international film : “A serious attempt to make the problems of two unusual heroes understandable precisely by emphasizing the everyday nature of the characters and their problems. The different convincing performances as well as some stylistic uncertainties make the film appear ambivalent in the end. "
- Roger Ebert is of the opinion that anyone familiar with the mentally handicapped should find the film insulting. In his review in the Chicago Sun-Times , he finds it downright shameless how the handicap is exploited as a trick and support of the plot.
- Stephen Holden finds the film in his review in the New York Times cumbersome and bumpy put together. He is a little reconciled by the acting performance mainly by Giovanni Ribisi, but also by Diane Keaton and Juliette Lewis.
- The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
Web links
- Other Sister in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Other Sister at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ In love as normal. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times of February 26, 1999
- ↑ Criticism of Ganz normalliebbt in the New York Times of February 26, 1999 ( memento of the original of January 9, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
