A gift is still too expensive

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Movie
German title A gift is still too expensive
Original title The Money Pit
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1986
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Richard Benjamin
script David Giler
production Kathleen Kennedy
Art Levinson
Frank Marshall
music Michel Colombier
camera Gordon Willis
cut Jacqueline Cambas
occupation

A gift is still too expensive (English original title: The Money Pit ) is a comedy film produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment about a young couple in love at war with their newly acquired dream house, which is turning into a nightmare. The main actor is Tom Hanks , who is here in his third major Hollywood film.

action

Walter Fielding, a lawyer who represents, among other things, an obscure rock band and a heavily rich child, and his friend Anna, a violist , are looking for a new home, because Anna's ex-husband Max, a world-famous conductor, is claiming the previously occupied apartment. Walter is in financial difficulties because his father is a fraudster who has fled to South America with fraudulent millions, whereupon Walter had to pay various bills for him.

When the two of them are offered a supposedly attractive and cheap house, they spontaneously sign the purchase contract. After the previous owner left the property at a suspiciously fast pace, the picturesquely located villa turns out to be a ramshackle, in which one nasty surprise after another awaits. When Walter lets the bathtub fill up, she rushes to the floor below. In the kitchen, a turkey in the oven becomes a ballistic projectile. The water pipes are defective, the house electrical system is desolate, the main staircase is falling apart.

Anna meets with her ex-husband to borrow the necessary money from him for a renovation. She gets so drunk that she can't remember anything afterwards and thinks she had sex with Max. The renovation of the house proves to be a turbulent adventure, but finally all permits are in place and the right craftsmen - a wild but competent bunch - are found. Anna makes Walter the alleged confession that she slept with Max - this leads to a falling out between the two. They want to separate and sell the almost completely renovated house at a profit. But then Max admits that there was no sex between him and the drunk Anna at the said meeting.

Walter explains to Anna that he doesn't care that Anna and Max had sex, because it only made him realize how much he loves her. Anna and Walter make up, Anna admits that she never had sex with Max, they stay in the house, which has since become a magnificent building, and at the end of the film the wedding between Anna and Walter and a big wedding party take place there while Walter's father had a ramshackle screwed up in South America for his stolen money from the very same woman who had previously tricked Anna and Walter.

synchronization

For the DVD release, a new synchronization of the film was created in 2003, which is now also used for TV broadcasts. After Joachim Tennstedt was spoken of in the cinema dubbing Tom Hanks, Arne Elsholtz was now used. However, on the Bluray from Koch Media , which was released on February 19, 2015, the original synchro is again included in addition to the new one.

actor role Theatrical version (1986) DVD version (2003)
Tom Hanks Walter Fielding Jr. Joachim Tennstedt Arne Elsholtz
Shelley Long Anna Crowley Beissart Fielding Susanna Bonaséwicz Susanna Bonaséwicz
Alexander Godunov Max Beissart Thomas Danneberg Thomas Danneberg
Maureen Stapleton Estelle Tilly Lauenstein
Philip Bosco Curly Edgar Ott Klaus Sunshine
Joe Mantegna Kind of Shirk Ulrich Gressieker Lutz Mackensy
Nestor Serrano Julio Jörg Döring Torsten Michaelis

Reviews

“A catastrophe spectacle that mostly forgives its satirical approaches in favor of gross slapstick; the trick experts dominate, quieter sounds are drowned out. "

- Lexicon of international film

“Despite excessive exaggeration: For home builders and fans of renovation shows, delicious fun with a crazy Tom Hanks. Conclusion: botched construction can be so amusing. "

- Cinema

background

The film is a remake of Mr. Blanding's Builds His Dream House ( just for my wife's sake ) , although the film doesn't even remotely resemble the original. Even so, Gift Is Too Expensive was a box-office hit and grossed around 55 million US dollars worldwide . The budget was only $ 10 million. The rock band that plays the wedding at the end of the film is called the White Lion . Originally from Brooklyn, she had a number three hit in the US in 1989 with When The Children Cry .

Amblin Television and Universal Television were planning a television series based on the film. In January 2014 the American television network NBC commissioned a pilot episode , the script for this was written by Justin Spitzer ( The Office ). However, since there were difficulties in casting the main roles, the project was discontinued for the time being.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A gift is still too expensive. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
  2. ↑ A gift is still too expensive. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Free is still too expensive at cinema.de
  4. ↑ Nellie Andreeva: NBC Gives Pilot Orders To Multi-Camera Comedies 'Money Pit' & 'Fifth Wheel'. deadline.com, January 24, 2014, accessed on March 12, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Nellie Andreeva: NBC Comedy Pilot 'Money Pit' Pushed. deadline.com, March 11, 2014, accessed on March 12, 2014 .