Lord of the Tides

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Movie
German title Lord of the Tides
Original title The Prince of Tides
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1991
length 126 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Barbra Streisand
script Pat Conroy ,
Becky Johnston
production Andrew S. Karsch ,
Barbra Streisand
music James Newton Howard
camera Stephen Goldblatt
cut Don Zimmerman
occupation

Lord of the Tides (Original title: The Prince of Tides ) is an American drama from 1991. The film is based on the novel "Lords of the Island" (in the original also "The Prince of Tides" ) by Pat Conroy from the year 1986. It was directed by Barbra Streisand and written by Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston . The main roles were played by Barbra Streisand and Nick Nolte .

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Professionally frustrated teacher and football coach Tom Wingo is experiencing a marital crisis. His wife Sallie is cheating on him. His twin sister Savannah, who lives in New York City and is a recognized poet , makes another attempt at suicide. Tom goes to New York to take care of his sister.

He speaks to his sister's psychiatrist, Dr. Susan Lowenstein, who suggests that the cause of the mental health problems of Savannah suffering from dissociative disorder lies in their childhood. She wants Tom to tell her about this childhood as Savannah can't remember many things.

Tom talks about his despotic father, his eccentric mother and his older brother, who has since passed away. Tom soon realizes that these conversations represent therapy for himself, which he initially reluctantly opposes. He too suffered greatly in his childhood. Unlike his sister, he can remember the events, but evades the pain associated with them.

Susan and Tom approach. So he learns that Susan's marriage is also in crisis. Lowenstein asks Tom to train her son Bernard Woodruff, who is also in a difficult phase of life. He rebels against the analyzing mother and submits to the egomaniac father, a famous violin virtuoso.

In the course of all these events, Tom is finally ready to open up and tells Susan about a long-repressed, traumatic event. One day three escaped convicts raided the Wingo family's home; Tom, Tom's mother, and Savannah were raped. His older brother shot two of the intruders and his mother killed the third. His father, who was absent at the time, and the police never heard of what had happened - mother and children removed the bodies and all traces.

After a long absence, Susan's husband, Herbert Woodruff, returns home. He's strongly against his son's football training and makes no secret of his dislike of Tom. Nevertheless, he invites him to dinner at his house. The situation escalates. Tom forces Woodruff to apologize. Then Tom and Susan leave the house. The two start an affair.

Tom and Susan fall in love. Their togetherness is very intimate, but is overshadowed by the fact that Tom's marriage is not really broken and Lowenstein fears that Tom's wife would like to continue it. Savannah is discharged from the hospital, she dedicates her latest collection of poems to her brother and calls him her memory in it . As expected, Tom's wife answers and he is now ready to return to his family. Susan expected it, but suffers greatly from it. Tom returns to his hometown, his marriage improves, and he is successful at work. Ironically, that's what made his relationship with Lowenstein possible.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times on December 24, 1991 that Barbra Streisand had proven with the film that she was a good director. He greatly praised the portrayal of Nick Nolte.

Rita Kempley described in the Washington Post of December 25, 1991, the presentation of Nick Nolte as gallant ( chivalrously ), the play of Jason Gould as promising . She wrote that , at Streisand's insistence , the plot of the horror novel had been transformed into a mixture of psychodrama and a Hollywood-style romance film .

Awards

The film was in 1992 for the film award Oscar nominated in seven categories:

Nick Nolte won the 1992 Golden Globe Award , Barbra Streisand as a director and the film for Best Drama was nominated for the Golden Globe. Nick Nolte won the Boston Society of Film Critics Award and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award in 1991 . Barbra Streisand was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Award in 1992 . The script was nominated for the 1992 Writers Guild of America Award . Stephen Goldblatt was nominated for the American Society of Cinematographers Award in 1992 .

Book template

  • Pat Conroy: The Lords of the Island , Roman (translated by Hartmut Zahn and Christel Rost), Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach, 1995, ISBN 3-404-25241-1 (= Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch , volume 25241 special volume ).

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