Greta (2009)

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Movie
German title Greta
Original title According to Greta
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2009
length 89 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Nancy Bardawil
script Michael Gilvary
production Rick Rosenthal ,
Douglas J. Sutherland ,
Gary Dean Simpson ,
Hilary Duff
music John E. Nordstrom
camera Michael Lohmann
cut Michelle Botticelli
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Greta (Original title: According to Greta ) is a film drama and at the same time the directorial debut of the director Nancy Bardawil with the actors Hilary Duff , Ellen Burstyn , Michael Murphy , Evan Ross , and Melissa Leo in the leading roles. The film deals with the problems of different generations in conflict, with the teenage Greta taking center stage.

action

17 year old Greta is clever, pretty, rebellious and sarcastic. In a small notebook that acts as her diary, she records what she would like to experience before she dies and what methods there are to commit suicide.

During the school holidays, her mother sends her to her grandparents in New Jersey in New Jersey, in what Greta's point of view is a desolate small town, Ocean Grove , to have time for herself and to save her third marriage. As soon as Greta arrives in Ocean Grove by coach, she messes with her grandparents and the neighborhood. But when she gets hired as a waitress in a restaurant, life in the small town begins to get more interesting. She begins to fall in love with the local chef, Julie, who was previously in jail for stealing a car but is now determined to lead a better life and later open his own restaurant. A summer romance begins, and Greta even befriends her grandparents a little. When she, driven by longing for death , hooked her foot in the anchor line during a boat trip with her grandparents and Julie in order to be pulled down to the seabed , Julie rescued her at the last second. During this near-disaster, her grandmother had a heart attack and had to be taken to hospital. When Julie confronts Greta with the fact that he is not ready to continue to endanger his life around Greta, she begins to understand how much influence her behavior has on her surroundings and others and begins to change. When suddenly her mother shows up, who was asked by Greta's grandfather by phone to pick up Greta for the benefit of her grandmother, the situation almost escalates. Greta's mother plans to send her daughter to a boot camp , which neither the grandparents nor Greta, who would rather stay in Ocean Grove, are enthusiastic about. The grandfather manages to defuse the situation by suggesting that the matter be resolved as a family. Then both Greta and her mother stay with their grandparents for the next few weeks, spend a lot of time together and look at old family photos in which Greta first sees her father, who took his own life with a gun in Greta's childhood and then was found by Greta. Greta's notebook and the lists in it seem to be a result of this trauma. Finally, after spending time with her family and being friends with Julie, she manages to part with her notebook.

background

The film was shot in Ocean Grove , Asbury Park , Brick Township , Point Pleasant and the Jersey Shore University Medical Center from October 2, 2007 to November 6, 2007. According to Steve Gorelick of the New Jersey Motion Picture and Television Commission in Newark , the cost should have been in the range of one to two million US dollars . The film productions were completed in mid-November 2007. In May 2008, some scenes were re-shot. For the film release in the United States, the title "According to Greta" was selected, later the film was only presented as Greta in Los Angeles .

The film premiered on May 13, 2009 at the Cannes Film Market in France . The film was released in cinemas in the United States on December 11, 2009, but in a limited edition. The DVD was available in stores in the United States on January 10th. The film was released on DVD in Germany on March 12, 2010. The film reached number 56 in the iTunes shop by March 13, 2010 and was sold up to over 200,000 times on iTunes.

criticism

Cinema praised Hilary Duff's “amazing performance” , which shows that “there is more to her than a walking blonde joke” .

dvdrental.ch saw an "ambitious, atmospheric teenage drama " in which Hilary Duff in particular " cuts an astonishingly good figure as a depressive confrontational brat" . The "brilliantly observed, sensitively told and successfully tried to avoid cliché traps, family drama, teenage self-discovery and girl love film" is a "tip for women of all ages and friends of sophisticated entertainment" .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
  2. ↑ Filming data according to the Internet Movie Database
  3. ↑ a b c Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  4. ^ Film review , Cinema
  5. ↑ film review, dvdrental.ch

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