I Love Trouble - Nothing but Trouble

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Movie
German title I Love Trouble - Nothing but Trouble
Original title I love trouble
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Charles Shyer
script Nancy Meyers
Charles Shyer
production Nancy Meyers
music David Newman
camera John Lindley
cut Adam Bernardi
Paul Hirsch
Walter Murch
occupation

I Love Trouble (Original title: I Love Trouble ) is an American comedy film from 1994 with Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts in the lead roles.

action

The aging star reporter Peter Brackett works for the Chicago Chronicle and has just published his first novel. He is respected by everyone for his columns, but now prefers to take care of his numerous female fans when signing books instead of investing a lot of time in researching reports for his newspaper. When his boss catches him simply exchanging a few names on an old column and delivering it as a new column, after a long time he is sent off again to research a story about a railway accident on site. He meets the handsome Sabrina Peterson, a reporter who has only been working for the rival paper "Chicago Globe" for two days. Brackett tells his boss that hardly any facts are known and that no other reporter can deliver more than he himself. The next day, however, the “reporter freshman” Sabrina Peterson reported news about the case on the front page of the “Chicago Globe”. The long-established reporter refuses to accept that, and Brackett's ambition is rekindled. Even so, the next day, Peterson's article contains more information than his.

Peterson is called by a young man who is said to have stolen a suitcase from the scene of the disaster. When she visits him, she finds him dead, the characters "LD ..." written on one hand. She grabs a ballpoint pen lying around, makes a note of it and escapes.

While looking at a randomly recorded video tape, Brackett discovers that the coupling of one of the wagons of the crashed train has obviously been manipulated. He concludes that the most likely target for an assassination attempt could be a teacher whose father worked for the Chess Chemical company. He makes an appointment with the widow in an office building and meets Peterson in the elevator. The elevator gets stuck on the way, Brackett and Peterson are chased by a killer. They only barely manage to escape the killer, who dies in the process.

The two reporters decide to work together from now on. They discover that the company “Chess” has developed a genetically modified hormone called “LDF” that accelerates the ability of young cows to produce milk. The milk from these cows leads to cancer in humans, but the company management did not want to reveal this side effect to the public and has had the research results falsified. A former researcher from the group sent the evidence to his son, and it was hidden as microfilm in the ballpoint pen that was in the suitcase of the killed teacher. Via the young man who stole the suitcase from the scene of the accident, the pen ended up in the hands of Sabrina Peterson, who, however, did not know anything about the microfilm it contained until the very end.

In Las Vegas they are being chased by a killer. They take refuge in one of the many quick marriage chapels. Because they are given clothing to match the wedding ceremony there, the killer does not recognize them when he enters the chapel in search of them. You will be legally married. At first they pretend they don't love each other and want to get a divorce soon, but eventually find each other.

background

  • Even if the feature film is fiction, parts of the story are based on the real case of the Monsanto bovine somatotropin hormone . The hormone produced by genetically modified bacteria increases milk production in cows, but has been banned in Canada and Europe because it caused cancer in laboratory animals. Monsanto kept the test results under lock and key citing trade secrets. In the United States, growth hormone has been approved by the FDA .

Reviews

  • James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was a "perfect example" of light entertainment. He thought the plot was absurd, compared the camera work with the broadcasts on MTV and criticized some of the dialogues. He praised the portrayals of Nick Nolte and Julia Roberts, through which the film "survived".
  • Prisma Online : "Charles Shyer (" Baby Boom "," Father of the Bride ") directed this charming and romantic crime comedy about the eternal battle of the sexes. " Pretty Woman " -Julia Roberts convinces as a sovereign and quick-witted challenger at the side of Nick Nolte as a smug gentleman-macho. "
  • Lexicon of the international film : “Only a rudimentary successful attempt to resurrect the liveliness of the" screwball comedies "; he fails mainly because of the lack of inspiration from the script and direction and the weak leading actress. "
  • The Heyne Film Lexicon found that it was a "film overloaded with journalist clichés", "in which the war between the sexes fails because of Julia Roberts' boring gentleness."

literature

  • Lars Penning: Julia Roberts . Bertz Verlag, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-929470-36-5 , pp. 64-66, 144
  • Meinolf Zurhorst : Julia Roberts. "Pretty Woman" . Heyne Filmbibliothek Volume 168. (3rd edition.) Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-453-05757-0 , pp. 142-146, 192-194

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  2. ^ Prism Online
  3. ↑ I Love Trouble - Nothing but Trouble. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Lothar R, Just (ed.): Heyne Filmlexikon. 10,000 films from 100 years of film history . Wilhelm Heyne Verlag, Munich 1996, p. 383