Head full of honey
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Head full of honey |
| Original title | Head full of honey |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2018 |
| length | 139 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 10 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Til Schweiger |
| script | Til Schweiger, Lo Malinke , Jojo Moyes |
| production | Til Schweiger, Christian Specht |
| music |
Diego Baldenweg , Lionel Vincent Baldenweg , Nora Baldenweg , Martin Todsharow |
| camera | René Richter |
| cut | Christoph Strothjohann |
| occupation | |
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Head Full of Honey is a German tragic comedy by Til Schweiger from 2018 . It is the English-language remake of the tragic comedy Honey in the Head from 2014 . Schweiger played a supporting role, directed and wrote the script.
action
At Amadeus, symptoms of Alzheimer's disease become apparent after the death of his wife . He can no longer live alone in his Connecticut house and so his son Nick brings him to London , where he causes a lot of turmoil and chaos, which further strains Nick's troubled marriage with Sarah. When Amadeus is about to be sent to a nursing home, his granddaughter leaves with him for Venice, where he once spent his honeymoon. Grandfather and granddaughter take a train to Italy and experience several entanglements along the way, including in a monastery. Eventually they reach Venice, where Nick and Sarah have gone and where the family will be reunited.
background
- Filming began in May 2018 and the film was shot in Germany , Italy and Great Britain . In Germany, as in the original from 2014, the Altfresenburg manor near Bad Oldesloe served as a film set.
- Originally, Michael Douglas provided for the role of Amadeus.
- Sophie Lane Nolte (* 2007), who plays Nick Nolte's granddaughter, is his daughter.
- According to various sources, between 1.9 million euros and 4.6 million euros in film funding went into the film project .
synchronization
The German-language synchronization was created by Loft Studios in Berlin. The dialogue director led Björn Schalla .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Amadeus | Nick Nolte | Axel Lutter |
| Matilda | Sophie Lane Nolte | Marlene Schick |
| Nick | Matt Dillon | Charles Rettinghaus |
| Sarah | Emily Mortimer | Anna Grisebach |
| Vivian | Jacqueline Bisset | Katharina Koschny |
| Dr. Holst | Eric Roberts | Ekkehardt Belle |
| Dr. Edwards | Jake Weber | Marcus Off |
| abbess | Greta Scacchi | Gudrun Mende |
| Waiter | Til Schweiger | Til Schweiger |
Publication and grossing
The film ran in four selected cinemas in New York City and Los Angeles on November 30, 2018 . In the first three days he brought in 7,665 euros. After six days and $ 11,337 in grossing, it was taken out of theaters early.
The theatrical release in Germany took place on March 21, 2019. The film, which was launched in 311 cinemas, only reached around 5,000 viewers in the first four days. Accordingly, the film was also removed from most cinemas after a few days, the number of screenings fell from 3,164 to 198 in the first week. It is the weakest film start of a film that has been released in over 300 cinemas since the animated film Molly Monster per year 2016.
Reviews
The film received scathing reviews on the occasion of its theatrical release. Rex Reed in The New York Observer called him a "superfluous remake", "exaggerated, annoying and as funny as a root canal treatment without anesthesia" and speculated that at the end of the film the viewer might think like Amadeus that he had lost his memory. Los Angeles Times critic Gary Goldstein called it "an overly long mess made by someone with misguided creative instincts" and said it was "no wonder Warner hid the film from critics until the last minute." The New York Times criticized a "bizarre plot" and "shrill performances by the actors".
Director Schweiger commented on the reviews as "targeted executions" that were responsible for the film's failure. Schweiger had "wondered what kind of film the critics saw". The American audience reacted “just as it did in Germany. They laughed and cried ”. He described the failure of the film as the “low point” of his work to date.
The trade magazines Cinema and TV Spielfilm stated on the occasion of the theatrical release in Germany: “If you don't know honey in your head , you will be entertained originally, so to speak. For everyone else, the news value is low ”.
The Hamburger Morgenpost asked itself under the heading “Seen everything before”, “Why should I look at this again?”. When casting Matilda, "the minors were looking for family ties rather than a strong acting solution." It is also questionable "why so much German funding goes into an English-language remake."
Sidney Schering from Oddsmeter.de also saw the film critically. So he was dissatisfied with the equipment of the film ("Schweiger continues to hold on to his distinctive look, which admittedly has a certain homeliness for baked rolls. (...) But what was still refreshing in barefoot and no-ear rabbits has now become stale") and the film editing , which has "worsened massively over the years" with Schweiger. So be Head Full of Honey "again cut a trail more aggressive than its predecessor," remained "on track" so feelings. Schweiger “just stubbornly re-shot his film”, with the result “Nolte's way of playing the role rubs against the script”.
Web links
- Head Full of Honey in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Head Full of Honey at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official website for the film
- Head Full of Honey on crew-united.com
- Head Full of Honey on moviepilot.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Head Full of Honey . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF).
- ↑ Age rating for Head Full of Honey . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Head Full of Honey at crew united . Retrieved April 17, 2019.
- ^ Head Full of Honey. In: filmportal.de . German Film Institute , accessed on April 17, 2019 .
- ↑ Rolling Stone : US Remake of Honey in Your Head , accessed March 23, 2018.
- ↑ Fire alarm on the film set , accessed on December 9, 2018
- ↑ Nolte plays in Schweiger's remake. In: n-tv.de. March 21, 2018, accessed March 23, 2018 .
- ↑ Nick Nolte's daughter calls him Grandpa , NYPost, accessed December 8, 2018
- ↑ "Head Full Of Honey" also a megaflop in Germany , filmstarts.de, accessed on March 24, 2019
- ↑ https://mobil.mopo.de/hamburg/promi---show/remake-von--honig-im-kopf--keiner-will-s-sehen--zuschauer-desaster-fuer-til-schweiger- 32326792
- ^ Head Full of Honey. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous file , accessed on April 17, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Hollywood malice for Schweiger's new film , Berliner Zeitung, accessed on December 8, 2018
- ↑ Super flop: Schweiger film flies out of US cinemas , accessed on December 8, 2018
- ^ After a monumental flop: "Head Full Of Honey" flies out of most cinemas , filmstarts.de, accessed on March 31, 2019
- ↑ "Head Full Of Honey" flies out of most German cinemas , focus.de, accessed on March 31, 2019
- ↑ Til Schweiger's mega-flop nobody wants to see in Germany , moviepilot.de, accessed on March 31, 2019
- ↑ This Nick Nolte Comedy About Alzheimer's Is as Funny as a Root Canal Without Anesthesia. In: Observer. November 30, 2018, accessed December 9, 2018 .
- ↑ What America says about the remake , welt.de, accessed December 8, 2018.
- ↑ Schweiger's remake floppt , ntv.de, accessed on December 8, 2018.
- ↑ What Schweiger says about his US cinema flop , bild.de, accessed on December 12, 2018.
- ^ Til Schweiger's 2018 balance sheet , accessed on December 31, 2018.
- ↑ Head full of Honey on cinema.de, accessed on March 9, 2019.
- ↑ TV Spielfilm, issue 6/2019, page 186.
- ↑ Seen everything before , morgenpost.de, accessed on March 24, 2019.
- ↑ Head Full of Honey on quotenmeter.de, March 21, 2019.