Katie's longing

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Movie
German title Katie's longing
Original title Stealing Home
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1988
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK without
Rod
Director Steven Kampmann
William Porter
script Steven Kampmann
William Porter
production Hank Moonjean
Thom Mount
music David Foster
camera Bobby Byrne
cut Antony Gibbs
occupation

Katies Sehnsucht (Original title: Stealing Home ) is an American feature film from 1988 . It was directed by Steven Kampmann and William Porter , who also wrote the script . The main roles were played by Jodie Foster , Mark Harmon , Harold Ramis and William McNamara .

action

Billy, a seedy baseball player, is supposed to find a final place for the ashes of his suicidal childhood friend Katie. During this task he remembers all of his youth, his experiences with Katie, his shock from the loss of his father, his baseball career and his sexual initiation.

1986: Billy Wyatt, a burned-out ex-baseball player, is 36 and lives a lot in dingy motels. A phone call from his mother informs him of Katie Chandler's suicide and that she left him her ashes. Billy has to come home for the first time in a long time. He wants to avoid the responsibility of handing over the ashes to eternity in Katie Chandler's sense.

1958: For ten-year-old baseball fan Billy Wyatt, Chestnut Hill, a wealthy suburban area in Philadelphia where his parents own a house, is the center of the world. And sixteen-year-old Katie Chandler is the first girl he dreams of: she's supposed to take care of the boy, but prefers to take her protégé for jaunts to the beach in New Jersey, shows him how to smoke properly and explains which guys are really liked by girls become.

In 1964, Billy is 16 and Katie is 22; After the funeral of his father, who was killed in a car accident while on a business trip, the boy changed his mind. With the death of his father, Billy Wyatt gives up his hopefully beginning career as a baseball player, although Bud Scott wanted him to be a junior player in his training camp this season. Wyatt and Chandler say goodbye as Katie goes to Europe to get married.

Wyatt recognizes the negative intersections in his life and the persistence with which Chandler has pushed him in the right direction over and over again. A silver baseball necklace given by Katie should always remind Billy what he is and where his future lies. He had passed this necklace on to a childhood sweetheart with whom he had his first sexual experience. He's getting that chain back.

At the end of the film, Wyatt throws Katie's ashes into the sea on a pier where the two had their happiest moments.

Reviews

The film received mostly positive reviews, especially the work of Jodie Foster . Some critics even speculated that she might win an Oscar for her role (which she eventually got for the film Accused from the same year).

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun-Times of August 26, 1988 that he “loathed” the film from beginning to end in such a way that he was amazed that a film could be so bad. The film is pathetic and contains clichés. The "sensitive" question of why Katie Chandler committed suicide remains unanswered.

backgrounds

Some of the filming took place in the US state of Pennsylvania near Philadelphia . The film grossed approximately $ 7.47 million in US cinemas .

literature

  • Louis Chunovic: Jodie Foster. A portrait. VGS, Cologne 1997, ISBN 3-8025-2416-0 , pp. 110-111.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Film review by Roger Ebert , accessed on June 13, 2007