Housesitter - lies have beautiful legs

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Movie
German title Housesitter - lies have beautiful legs
Original title HouseSitter
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1992
length 102 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Frank Oz
script Mark Stein ,
Brian Grazer
production Brian Grazer
music Miles Goodman
camera John A. Alonzo
cut John Jympson
occupation

Housesitter - Lies Have Beautiful Legs is a 1992 comedy film . Directed by Frank Oz .

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Newton Davis is an architect. After building his dream home for himself and his girlfriend Becky, he is all the more disappointed when she rejects his proposal of marriage. There is a separation.

One evening when Newton was going out to dinner in a Hungarian restaurant, he met the waitress Gwen. Since Newton thinks she does not understand the English language, he tells her the story of his dream house and draws her a sketch of the house on a napkin. When Newton is about to go home, he meets Gwen on the street. It turns out that she is not Hungarian at all and has understood everything he told her. They both talk and then go to Gwen's apartment, where Newton finally spends the night.

The next morning Newton leaves the apartment. When Gwen wakes up and notices that her nightly guest has disappeared, she finds the napkin with the drawing of the house and decides to go there to see it. She is enthusiastic about Newton's dream house and moves in there without Newton's knowledge. When she goes shopping in town, she pretends to be Newton's wife. This lie enables her to have all her purchases recorded. On the way back to the house, she meets Newton's parents, who are surprised to hear that their son is married.

When Newton drives to his house to take a few days vacation, he discovers that Gwen has moved in there. All attempts to get rid of her fail because Gwen uses her skillful swindles to convince everyone that she and Newton are married. Meanwhile, Newton tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Becky. But she also believes Gwen and rejects him.

Gwen even manages to get Newton a raise from his boss. At a party she wants to introduce the boss to her parents because Gwen made him believe that he and her father served in the war. At this point Gwen's structure of lies threatens to collapse, but as always she finds a solution: She pays two homeless people who pretend to be their parents. Newton's boss, family, and friends are delighted with Gwen and her parents.

In the end, Newton realizes that he is in love with Gwen and decides to live with her in the house.

Reviews

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of June 12, 1992 that the film was not a masterpiece of comedy, but that it was "sweet" and "funny". In this context, Ebert praised the portrayals by Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin.

"A staging uninspired comedy, heavily influenced by dialogue, which hardly ever finds the necessary rhythm and at most entertains through the excellent main actors."

- Lexicon of international film

"The charming, laid-back fun comes from ex-" Muppet "player Frank Oz. Conclusion: No lie: lively good-mood fun."

- Cinema

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by Roger Ebert
  2. ↑ Housesitter - Lies have beautiful legs. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Housesitter - Lies have beautiful legs on cinema.de