Jekyll and Hyde - The Sharpest Transformation Ever
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| German title | Jekyll and Hyde - The Sharpest Transformation Ever |
| Original title | Jekyll and Hyde ... Together Again |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1982 |
| length | 87 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Jerry Belson |
| script |
Monica McGowan Johnson Michael Leeson Harvey Miller Jerry Belson |
| production | Lawrence Gordon |
| music | Barry De Vorzon |
| camera | Philip H. Lathrop |
| cut | Billy Weber |
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Jekyll and Hyde - The sharpest transformation of all times is an American television - comedy from the year 1982 . The literary film adaptation is a reinterpretation of Robert Louis Stevenson's epic novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .
action
The best surgeon in the world Dr. Daniel Jekyll is supposed to perform the first total transplant on Hubert Howes. However, he wants to give up surgery so that he can devote himself more to research in order to produce a drug that not only cures all ailments and diseases of mankind, but can also combine the animal with reason. The hospital director Dr. Carew is not very enthusiastic about this, which is why he tries to convince him with all possible arguments to carry out this operation. But Jekyll is determined and does not let up when he is close to the failure of his research. Completely exhausted, he falls asleep over his laboratory table and accidentally takes his drug, so that he transforms into the animal Hyde. He remembers his patient Ivy, where he worked as Dr. Jekyll was too shy to speak to her and went to her establishment, Madame Woo Woo , where he spent a wild night of love with her.
The next morning, however, he wakes up again when Dr. Jekyll, who is so embarrassed and uncomfortable about the whole thing that he not only apologizes to his fiancee Mary full of shame and shame, but also tries to destroy his drugs. However, he cannot resist the temptation to use his drug again, which is why he turns back into Hyde, steals an ambulance, tracks down Ivy and after another night of love, along with some other naked men, wakes up again as Jekyll. When he wants to apologize to Mary again, he takes up the courage to sleep with her for the first time. At least he tries.
To Carew's delight, Jekyll decided to perform the operation. But when he sees the naked breasts of a nurse through an incident during the procedure, he turns back into Hyde without having taken the drug. Although he can partially stop the transformation and ask his colleagues for help. But the longer it takes, the more he transforms into Hyde, who then realizes that he no longer wants to live as Jekyll and wants to run away with Ivy and Jekyll's $ 500,000 scholarship. But to get this money, he first has to go to London . When he appears there, he enters the stage without warning and goes through his own program, which annoys the participants so much that they chase him through the night onto a high-rise, from which he falls down and ends up dead on the street. Ivy and Mary discover that Hyde is transforming back into Jekyll and realize that Jekyll's decency impresses Ivy and Hyde's obsession with sex appeals to Mary, so they decide to share this man who is both good and bad.
After they dragged him away, Robert Louis Stevenson not only turns around in his grave, he actually rotates.
criticism
"A comedy remake of the Jekyll and Hyde material, the quieter tones and allusions of which are mostly drowned in the slapstick."
background
The film was released in theaters in the United States on October 1, 1982 and grossed around US $ 3.7 million. In Germany it opened in cinemas on July 1, 1983 and was released as VHS a short time later .
When Jekyll tries to get more medication from the hospital pharmacy, it is closed due to Timothy Leary's birthday . Timothy Leary became known in the 1960s and 1970s for promoting free and universal access to " psychedelic " (mind-altering) drugs such as LSD , mescaline and psilocybin .
Web links
- Jekyll and Hyde - The sharpest transformation of all time in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Jekyll and Hyde - The sharpest transformation of all time in the German dubbing file
- Jekyll and Hyde - The sharpest transformation of all time at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jekyll and Hyde - The Sharpest Transformation of All Time in the Lexicon of International Film , accessed on March 30, 2012
- ^ Jekyll and Hyde Together Again (1982) on boxofficemojo.com , accessed March 30, 2012