I'll Be There (film)

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Movie
German title I'll be there
Original title I'll be there
Country of production United States ,
United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 101 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Craig Ferguson
script Craig Ferguson
Philip McGrade
production James G. Robinson
music Trevor Jones
camera Ian Wilson
cut Sheldon Kahn
occupation

I'll Be There is an American - British tragic comedy released in 2003 .

action

Paul Kerr is a constantly drunk, aging Scottish rock star. During a late night drinking binge, he takes his motorcycle, drives it around his house, and uses a window pane to land it in his garden. He injured himself so badly that from then on everyone believed he had attempted suicide . Therefore, he is also admitted to psychiatry. When Evil Edmonds hears about it on the radio, he drives to his granddaughter Olivia Edmonds. But Evil's daughter, Olivia's mother Rebecca, doesn't want the aging musician in the house. Rebecca also wants Olivia not to use her musical talent, but rather to become a hairdresser like herself. It is only when Olivia asks why she is reacting so strangely that Rebecca explains that she slept with Paul Kerr in Cardiff in 1987 and that Paul Kerr is her father.

So they both decide to visit Paul in the psychiatric ward. Although Rebecca is absolutely dismissive of Paul, he can remember her immediately, after all, he had dedicated an entire album to her with Los Woman . But he can't change her impression of him, because when Mary pretends to be Doris Lefano, Paul's wife, in order to smuggle him out, it looks to Rebecca as if he is about to flee again. But that doesn't stop Olivia from finding out more about her father. A short time later, Digger McQuaid appears, who forces Paul to sober up within 30 days so that he can then visit his daughter again. After this, Olivia visits him and is given a motorcycle, which both of them take for a tour.

However, Rebecca doesn't like that Olivia spends time with her father and also listens to his music. She tries to speak to him and is still angry that he never answered any of her letters, only sent her autograph cards. Paul is also angry that he never found out about these letters. He is about to drink again and is just stopped by Digger. After being convinced of Olivia's talent and secretly recording her singing, Paul talks to Evil Edmonds and tries to find out how he can win Rebecca back over. Later he asks Rebecca that she has to let Olivia sing because she has talent and tells her right away that it is his record producer Sam Gervasi who never forwarded her letters to him. He himself would have replied immediately because he loved her the moment he saw her for the first time.

But Rebecca continues to refuse. But Sam hears Paul’s recording of Olivia and wants to sign her from now on. When Rebecca and Paul hear about this and learn that Olivia has sneaked away, they fear the worst and travel to London to confront Paul. But Olivia is not with him, but auditioning for admission at the Royal Academy of Music . There she introduces herself as Olivia Edmonds-Kerr and inspires everyone with her voice. When Rebecca hears her daughter, she is thrilled and agrees that she can become a singer. Eventually she gets back together with Paul.

criticism

In Variety , Derek Elley said that "the slow paced film lacks a strong personality." There is simply no momentum in the story. Ferguson, in whose directorial debut no handwriting is recognizable, would save the film from its own weakness through his acting portrayal, because he played "less extroverted than in The Great Mackenzie and Grass Whispers ".

In the British daily The Guardian , Peter Bradshaw gave the film two out of five stars, saying that the film, and Church in particular, "isn't quite as bad as it could have been."

The lexicon of international films said: “The melancholy comedy set in Wales is a reminiscence of the music of bygone years and its myths. In the debut film by a British comedian, the Welsh singer Charlotte Church impresses with her voice, but fails to prove her talent as an actress. "

publication

The film was released on June 13, 2003 in British cinemas and on August 1, 2003 also sporadically in the USA. It was then only distributed on DVD for the rest of the world. In Germany it was released directly on DVD on November 24, 2004 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Derek Elley: I'll Be There  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as broken. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on variety.com from August 18, 2003, accessed September 17, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.variety.com  
  2. ↑ Peter Bradshaw: I'll Be There on guardian.co.uk from June 20, 2003, accessed September 17, 2012
  3. ↑ I'll Be There. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used