Gotcha! - A crazy trip

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Movie
German title Gotcha! - A crazy guy
Original title Gotcha!
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Jeff Kanew
script Dan Gordon ,
Paul G. Hensler
production Paul G. Hensler ,
Michael I. Levy
music Bill Conti ,
Randy Newman
camera King Baggot
cut Michael A. Stevenson
occupation

Gotcha! - A crazy guy (old. Title: Shots, Kisses and Spies , Original Title: Gotcha! ) Is an American action comedy directed by Jeff Kanew from 1985 .

action

The Californian student Jonathan plays a game called “ Gotcha! “, In which you fire at yourself with color cartridges. He is unsuccessful with the girls.

Jonathan and his fellow student Manolo are on vacation in Paris . Jonathan's father is against it, but his wife persuades him - she even gets him to lend his son an expensive camera. In Paris, Jonathan meets the mysterious woman Sasha, who claims that she comes from Eastern Europe. She asks him to help her bring something to the West. Jonathan and Sasha start an affair and fly to Berlin.

The couple go to East Berlin , where they are hunted down by the KGB killers . Back in West Berlin, Jonathan saved himself during the escape in the citadel Spandau fortress by jumping into the Havel water. He returns to the USA alone.

Jonathan's father is furious when he learns that the camera has been destroyed. When Jonathan tells the story, his parents believe he was under the influence of drugs. Jonathan, on the other hand, is convinced that he is being persecuted by the KGB. He rammed his car into another car that just happened to be driving next to his car, was arrested for it and released on bail.

When Jonathan's apartment is searched and ransacked by the CIA agents, he goes in search of Sasha. He finds her at the local CIA office where she works and arranges a meeting with her. The CIA agents follow her, but are stopped and held up by Manolo and his friends from a Latin American gang .

Jonathan and Sasha meet on the college campus . Sasha turns out to be a native American. Jonathan was used to bring an important information film to the West. The KGB agents cut the conversation off by attacking Jonathan and Sasha. Jonathan takes a stun gun from the zoological faculty and neutralizes the opponents who are later arrested. The CIA people get the film.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of May 3, 1985 that the film was good enough that viewers would wish the writers had tried harder. He said not Jonathan, but Sasha should be the focus of the action. Ebert praised the presence of Linda Fiorentino and Anthony Edwards.

The lexicon of international film accused the “poor” film of “clichés”.

background

The film was shot in Los Angeles , Berlin (including in the Spandau Citadel ) and Paris . Supporting roles include Ronald Nitschke , Dan van Husen , Traudel Haas , Manfred Tümmler , Christel Merian , Tom Deininger , Susanna Bonaséwicz and Bernard Spiegel as taxi drivers . Thereza Bazar provided the vocals for the title song composed by Bill Conti .

The film played in the United States on the opening weekend 2.36 million dollars and put it in a box office earnings of 10.8 million dollars in the US and 158,500 US dollars in Germany.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Two thousand and one. Film lexicon FILMS from A to Z - Gotcha! - A crazy trip. Retrieved September 7, 2018 .
  2. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  3. ↑ Gotcha! - A crazy trip. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Filming locations for Gotcha!
  5. ↑ IMDB: budget and box office results