Years of tenderness - the story goes on

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Movie
German title Years of tenderness - the story goes on
Original title The Evening Star
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 123 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Robert Harling
script Robert Harling
production David Kirkpatrick ,
Polly Platt ,
Keith Samples
music William Ross
camera Don Burgess
cut David Moritz ,
Priscilla Nedd-Friendly
occupation

Years of Tenderness - The Story Continues (Alternative title: Years of Tenderness ; Original Title: The Evening Star ) is an American comedy film directed by Robert Harling from 1996 . Your script is based on a novel by Larry McMurtry . It is a sequel to the 1983 comedy Time of Tenderness .

action

The action takes place around 15 years after the cancer death of Emma Greenway Horton, the daughter of Aurora Greenway. Emma's children are already grown up. Melanie Horton, who has a bad relationship with her grandmother, is in a relationship. She moves out of the house, but later returns - disappointed in her lover. She turns to Patsy Carpenter, a friend of the late mother, who helps her financially. Aurora, who has been arguing with Patsy for years about whom Emma wanted to see her children educate, becomes jealous.

Tommy is serving a sentence; Aurora visits him regularly in prison. Melanie starts a relationship with the budding actor Bruce, whom she accompanies to Los Angeles . The relationship breaks up, but Melanie gets a bigger role in a television series.

Aurora is persuaded by her housekeeper and friend to visit the therapist Jerry Bruckner. At first she wants to leave it at one session, then she visits Bruckner more and more often and has an affair with him. She breaks up when she realizes how much she looks like Bruckner's mother.

Aurora's housekeeper marries and dies a little later, and a retired general friend of her also dies. Aurora is visited by Garrett Breedlove, who used to be an astronaut. She dies at the end of the film.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was a "flop" ("bust"). He tries "too hard", "too often" and "too half-heartedly" to "irritate the tear glands". He was "too manipulative", which the "flood of strong representations" could not compensate. The film consists of hardly coherent episodes, its script is "shockingly dumb" ("shockingly dumb"). Berardinelli also strongly criticized the representations of Shirley MacLaine, Miranda Richardson and Juliette Lewis, which provide a "monotonous representation typical for them".

TV Movie 9/1997 wrote that the film presses "penetratively on the lacrimal gland". The plot is "indecisively told", the "mindless grin" by Jack Nicholson disappoints.

"Continuation of a successful film from the 80s (" Time of Tenderness "), which is primarily tailored to the feelings of the audience in a mixture of quiet humor, seriousness and sentiment."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

Marion Ross was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1997 . Miranda Richardson won the Society of Texas Film Critics Award in 1996 and was nominated for the Golden Satellite Award in 1997.

Shirley MacLaine and Marion Ross and the screenplay by Robert Harling won the 1997 Lone Star Film & Television Award . Juliette Lewis won the 1997 Blockbuster Entertainment Award .

background

The film was shot in Los Angeles and Texas , including Houston and Galveston . It grossed approximately $ 12.7 million in US cinemas .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  2. ↑ Quotation on www.djfl.de ( Memento from February 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Years of Tenderness - The story continues. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 6, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ^ Filming locations for The Evening Star
  5. ^ Box office / business for The Evening Star