Jackpot crash in Atlantic City
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Jackpot crash in Atlantic City |
| Original title | Sour grapes |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1998 |
| length | 91 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Larry David |
| script | Larry David |
| production |
Laurie Lennard Barry Berg |
| music | Jonathan Wolff (music director) Robert Garrett (music editor ) Arlene Fishbach (music advisor) |
| camera | Victor Hammer |
| cut | Priscilla Nedd-Friendly |
| occupation | |
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Jackpot - Barney in Atlantic City ( Sour Grapes ) is an American film comedy of Larry David in the year 1998. The film is about the struggle between two friends for a jackpot win and the consequences that may result from wrong decisions.
action
Cousins Evan and Richie Maxwell have been best friends since childhood. Evan is a successful doctor and Richie is a shoe sole designer. For this reason, too, he is very cared for and mothered by his mother Selma, who could never get over the early death of her father. While Richie is being examined by Evan in his office for a birthmark, he tries to persuade his friend to spend a weekend together in Atlantic City . At first Evan is not very enthusiastic, but in the end he is convinced by Richie. Since Evan's friend Joan and Richie's friend Roberta are also coming, the four of them drive to Atlantic City.
After the two men had little luck in the game and Evan has already lost over $ 1,000, they both want to try their hand at a one -armed bandit in a final game . Since Richie only has one quarter left, but you need three for the game, Evan helps him out with two of his own. This final game brought Richie the jackpot , winning over $ 436,000.
First Evan is happy with Richie and Joan and Roberta are also cheering. Then, however, Evan is increasingly annoyed because Richie could only win with his quarter given to the friend. However, he secretly hopes that Richie will offer him half of the money he has won. When Richie then wrote him a check for $ 1,000 and said that he was being generous with Evan, since that was the amount he had gambled away, he was boiling. Evan is still of the opinion that at least half of the profit is due to him. But since Richie sees it differently, a heated argument breaks out between the two. When Richie wants to settle the dispute and offers him three percent of his profit, which would be over $ 13,000, he takes it as a further personal insult. Richie gives away the blue jogging suit that Evan brought him as a birthday present to a dark-skinned homeless man who is delighted.
Because Evan wants to get revenge on Richie, he calls him over and tells him that the tissue sample from his birthmark has shown that it is malicious and that he does not have long to live. Richie knows that his mother couldn't bear the news of his imminent death. He got the crazy idea of giving the homeless man a key to his mother's house, noting that he shouldn't show up there before 11 p.m. He hopes that his mother, who has a heart condition, will drop dead from the shock and will not have to see his suffering.
Evans' message on Richie's answering machine that everything was just a joke and that Richie was completely healthy comes too late. When Richie rushes to his mother's house, she has already been hospitalized because of a heart attack . Evan is in the operating room about to have an operation to remove a sick testicle from a well-known television star when he receives a call from his cousin and realizes the consequences of his irresponsible behavior. Unfocused and not fully focused on the matter, it happens that he removes the man's healthy testicles. Since the sick testicle has to be removed in any case, the man is now standing without it.
The police are investigating Richie because the homeless man's testimony has raised the suspicion that he wanted to have his mother killed. If she dies, he could be charged with murder, the officer said. Richie's friend Roberta overhears this conversation by chance and then leaves him. Richie is now doing everything to ensure that his mother is healthy again. After she was fine again, however, it is discovered that she suffered a cerebral haemorrhage in the fall , which has to be operated on. The attending physician advises Richie that it is a very dangerous operation. He recommends that he get the best surgeon in town, that's Evan Maxwell. After Evan doesn't want to, he agrees and carries out the complicated procedure. When he brings Richie the good news that everything went well, the latter falls around his neck and asks what he has to pay for it. Richie charges around $ 218,000, which is half the jackpot won in Atlantic City. Richie pays the sum.
When Evan comes home that evening, the TV star, from whom he removed both testicles, is already waiting for him and wants revenge. He lost his role as a result of the faulty operation. Evans ex-girlfriend Joan, who has an apartment next to him, sees the two men arguing from her balcony. When she tries to intervene and grabs the suitcase with the money, he flies in a scuffle over the balustrade of the balcony into the depths directly in front of the feet of the dark-skinned homeless man in blue jogging suit. Joan later comforts the TV star, who is desperate about his eunuch voice, because she says she likes him.
Since the homeless man and his friends had made themselves "comfortable" in Richie's mother's house while she was in the hospital, she found her former home completely filthy, neglected and destroyed after her release. She suffers another heart attack, this time fatal. Since Richie signed the lease for his mother, he is, as the landlord tells him, responsible for the damage that was done in the house. The total for the renovation is approximately $ 200,000. So Richie also loses the other half of his profit. The young man is stunned to see who has rented his mother's former house, it is the homeless person who is now driving a fancy sports car and no longer needs the blue jogging suit.
Production notes
The filming took place in New York , in Atlantic City in New Jersey and in Long Beach in California in the USA . The film was presented by Castle Rock Entertainment on behalf of Columbia Pictures .
The film is accompanied by numerous pieces of music, which mainly consist of classical pieces, but also some timeless songs. Among other things, the ballet music from Faust by Charles Gounod , Johann Sebastian Bach's Adagio in C major, BMV 564 “Toccata and Fugue” in D minor, BMV 565 , Luigi Boccherini's Minuet op. 11 No. 5 , Johannes Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 7 in A major , Merv Griffin's Wheel Of Fortune theme song , Dean Martin sings Jimmy Van Heusen's Ain't That A Kick In The Head .
Larry David, who directed the film, was married to the producer of this film, Laurie Lennard, at the time the film was made.
The film premiered in the US on April 17, 1998. On the opening weekend, April 19, 1998, the film was shown in 28 theaters in the US and grossed $ 123,104. On April 26, 1998, he grossed an additional $ 219,932. The film was released on video for the first time on March 23, 1999 in Germany.
synchronization
Jackpot - Noise in Atlantic City (OT: Sour Grapes ) according to the synchronized files
Reviews
"Black humor and wacky gags are the trump cards with Steven Weber ('Break Up - Nackte Angst', 'Female, single, young sucht ...') and Craig Bierko (" Deadly Christmas, 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' " ) more than full comedy. Directed by Larry David, co-inventor of the American comedy series' Seinfeld '.' Jackpot 'is also about young adults who are actually still children, but the jokes are a bit too flat here.' Jackpot 'and' Seinfeld 'are just cousins ... Comedy fans [...] are still well entertained. "
"Seinfeld author Larry David lacks the laconic humor in his sitcom."
Web links
- Jackpot - Barney in Atlantic City in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sour Grapes at Turner Classic Movies
- Jackpot - noise in Atlantic City at Zweiausendeins.de/Filmlexikon
Individual evidence
- ↑ Music in the movie Jackpot - Noise in Atlantic City
- ↑ Jackpot - Noise in Atlantic City with synchronized files
- ↑ Jackpot - Noise in Atlantic City at Video.de ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Jackpot - Noise in Atlantic City at Cinema.de
