Jack in love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Jack in love |
| Original title | Jack Goes Boating |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Philip Seymour Hoffman |
| script | Robert Glaudini |
| production |
Beth O'Neil Peter Saraf Marc Turtletaub Emily Ziff |
| music |
Grizzly Bear Evan Lurie |
| camera | W. Mott Hupfel III |
| cut | Brian A. Kates |
| occupation | |
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Jack in Love (original title Jack Goes Boating ) is an American romantic comedy directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman from 2010 .
The film about a shy New York chauffeur's difficult attempts to meet a woman who has been the victim of sexual violence premiered at the 26th Sundance Film Festival . It started in the USA on September 17, 2010, and was shown for the first time in Germany on February 24, 2011.
action
The shy, reclusive single Jack works in New York City for his uncle as a chauffeur for large limousines. His only friend, his colleague Clyde, and his wife Lucy want to introduce him to Connie, a work colleague of Lucy, over dinner. Connie also has problems with closeness, and also with intimacy. Connie wishes to take a boat trip on the lake next summer, so Jack sets himself the goal of finally overcoming his insecurity about the water and learning to swim. Clyde is happy to help and gives Jack lessons.
Connie is sexually molested and injured on the subway. Jack visits her in the hospital and learns that apart from her mother, nobody has ever cooked a meal for her. So he decides to prepare a menu for Connie himself. However, this requires further instruction because Jack cannot cook. Here, too, Clyde can help: he stubbornly recommends the man with whom his wife Lucy cheated on him some years ago, the chef Frederick Cannoli. Clyde tells Jack not to mention to Lucy that he is now privy to their affair.
Jack has prospects now. He has regular swimming lessons from Clyde, and Frederick trains him in cooking. And so he also finds the strength to submit an application for a new job. He carelessly gives Lucy a hint that Clyde told him about her affair with the cook. In return, she reports to him about an affair with Clyde.
After a failed attempt to get intimate with Jack, Connie explains that she isn't ready for penetration just yet. At Connie's request, Jack satisfies her with his hand while they describe their respective ideas about relationships.
After six trials of cooking in Lucy and Clyde's kitchen, Jack finally invites Connie to a home-cooked dinner in the friends' apartment. He himself has neither representative rooms nor a suitable cooking area. Clyde and Lucy are already noticeably irritated by Jack's presence over the past few weeks and the slowly smoldering marital crisis. The four of them let their senses cloud their senses while enjoying a water pipe. Only when the smoke detector sounds the alarm do they notice that both the food in the oven and on the pan are on fire. Jack loses his nerve and locks himself in the bathroom.
Clyde and Lucy use large amounts of cocaine and get into more and more arguments. Meanwhile, Frederick surprisingly rings the doorbell, the jealous Clyde had invited him to dinner to expose Lucy in front of everyone. Lucy realizes what Clyde had tried to thread and loudly breaks up with him, and so Connie and Jack ultimately leave the apartment. Together they drive to Connie's apartment, where she expresses the wish never to be like Clyde and Lucy. Although she had planned her first time with Jack for the day of the summer boat trip, she asks Jack to sleep with her, and Jack agrees.
reception
In the United States, Jack in Love received mostly slightly good reviews. At Rotten Tomatoes , the film received a collective rating of 67% positive reviews and is therefore considered “fresh”.
“Despite its obvious independent look, the film is aesthetically what its protagonist is in life: a specimen of caution and caution. Only in a short sequence in the swimming pool does Hoffman find an image for the pain in life of his characters in the disturbing sight of another bathing guest. In general, the scenes in the swimming pool are among the best in the film. Otherwise, a static camera that appears narcotized remains on the surface of the constantly evoked loneliness and leaves most of the effects to the performance of the actors. Jack in Love is above all an intimistic film by an actor for actors. "
“Jack in Love is a chamber play bursting with joy, exhilarated by reggae from the sixties and soul from the seventies. Aside from the glossy romantic comedies, it reveals the no less great feelings in the calm New York working-class milieu. "
production
Jack in Love is based on a play of the same name by Robert Glaudini , which he wrote in 2007. Most of the original actors in the stage performance also play the relevant part in the film, with Amy Ryan replacing Beth Cole as Connie. Jack in Love is the directorial debut of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman .
In the United States, the film opened on September 17, 2010, where it grossed about 540,000 US dollars.
Web links
- Jack in Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Jack in Love . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , January 2011 (PDF; test number: 126 305 K).
- ↑ Jack in Love (Jack Goes Boating) at RottenTomatoes.com
- ↑ Almut Steinlein: Jack in Love. critic.de - the film page, January 27, 2011, accessed on August 19, 2013 .
- ^ New York Improvisations Die Zeit. February 25, 2011
- ↑ "IMDb information on the box office results" . December 12, 2010. Retrieved February 25, 2011.
- ↑ Jack Goes Boating at Box Office Mojo, accessed on February 25, 2011