Hot Blood (1978)
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| German title | Hot blood |
| Original title | Bloodbrothers |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1978 |
| length | 116 minutes |
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| Director | Robert Mulligan |
| script | Walter Newman |
| production | Stephen J. Friedman |
| music | Elmer Bernstein |
| camera | Robert Surtees |
| cut | Sheldon Kahn |
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Hot blood (Original title: Bloodbrothers , German Blood Brothers ) is an American coming-of-age film from 1978 , which is based on the novel Bloodbrothers by Richard Price . The main roles are played by Richard Gere , Paul Sorvino , Tony Lo Bianco and Marilu Henner . The film was nominated at the 51st Academy Awards in 1979 in the " Best Adapted Screenplay " category.
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The film tells the story of an adolescent from a working-class family of Italian descent, a construction worker family from the Bronx . Tommy De Coco and his brother Louis, known as Chubby because of his stoutness, are construction site workers with the life and family image of working-class Italians who immigrated from the Bronx. This includes macho behavior among men, the wife at the stove, a good girl is married, but before that you spread your own seeds properly among young, fun-oriented women. Many problems are not addressed and the family cannot find an answer for some behavior, for example when the younger son Albert refuses to eat and develops anorexia .
Stony De Coco, Tommy's older son, is torn between loyalty to his family and fleeing the social environment described. His father Tommy dreams of one day working together with Stony as De Coco and Son on the construction site. Stony, on the other hand, is drawn elsewhere; he wants to work with children. A well-meaning doctor gives him the opportunity to work as a rehab assistant on a children's ward in a hospital in order to get a taste of working with children. He finds fulfillment there; For example, he happily tells the children uplifting stories. For Tommy this is women's work.
Stony seeks support outside his family in the form of a friend. After cheating Cheri, a fun-oriented girl, he starts a relationship with Annette, a disco waitress who strengthens his back for the rebellion against the macho traditions of the father, especially the excessive consumption of alcohol and dealing with Women. To further complicate the family situation, Stony's mother, Marie, shows a borderline personality disorder .
Stony suffers from his father's egocentricity and brutal methods, but neither wants to break with the family as such. He has to go his own way. At the end of the film, Stony leaves the family and takes his mentally ailing brother Albert with him.
Awards
At the 1979 Academy Awards , Walter Newman was nominated for his script adaptation for Hot Blood in the " Best Adapted Screenplay " category.
The Writers Guild of America also nominated Newman in 1979 for his Bloodbrothers adaptation for Best Adapted Drama .
Reviews
"With sometimes powerful and apt, sometimes somewhat melodramatic and exaggerated means, the film paints the picture of a sick family in which a love that has degenerated into possession, manliness and double standards have condensed into a suffocating climate."
Web links
- Hot blood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Hot blood at rotten tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b The Academy Awards 1979. In: oscars.org. Retrieved January 16, 2019 .
- ↑ Hot blood. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 16, 2019 .