Kill the boss

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Movie
German title Kill the boss
Original title Horrible bosses
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
JMK 14
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Director Seth Gordon
script Michael Markowitz ,
John Francis Daley ,
Jonathan M. Goldstein
production Brett Ratner ,
Jay Stern
music Christopher Lennertz
camera David Hennings
cut Peter Teschner
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chronology

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Kill the Boss 2

Detail of the German advertising poster

Kill the Boss (Original title: Horrible Bosses ) is an American comedy film directed by Seth Gordon from 2011 . Jason Bateman , Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis can be seen in the leading roles .

action

The three friends Nick Hendricks, Dale Arbus and Kurt Buckman have one thing in common: They suffer from their bosses.

In the hope of a promotion, the office worker Nick has to constantly expose himself to the sadistic power games of his psychopathic boss Dave Harken. Dental assistant Dale, who really only has eyes for his fiancée Stacy, is taken care of by his boss, Dr. Julia Harris is constantly molested and blackmailed. While Kurt was always treated like a son by Jack Pellit, the senior boss of the chemical company Pellit and Son , after his death he has to watch helplessly as Jack's biological son Bobby Pellit the company with its discriminatory company policy, drug use and sex -Escapades ruined.

One evening, over a couple of beers, the three friends discover that their lives would be much easier without their bosses. Since dismissal is out of the question for them due to the tense labor market situation, they joke about the way out of the situation: They have to murder their hated superiors! The killer hired by them turns out to be someone who pees on strange men for money.

They visit a pub in search of a hit man. After they have been kicked out of this, they are followed by Dean “Motherfuckah” Jones, who pretends to be a hardened criminal. "Motherfuckah" initially wants $ 30,000 for the job, but can be quickly negotiated down to 5,000. When they give him the money the next evening, he tells them that under no circumstances will he work as a murderer, but at most as a "murder consultant". “Motherfuckah” gives them the tip that everyone should - similar to the Hitchcock classic The Stranger on the Train  - kill the other's boss, and that they should start by observing the three bosses.

In order to gather information, the three break into Bobby Pellit's, find large amounts of cocaine and take his mobile phone with them. Then they break into Harken and lose Pellit's mobile phone unnoticed. When Harken gets home, he admonishes Dale (who stands dope) for throwing his empty sandwich bag on the street, suffering an allergic attack from the peanut butter residue on the bag. Unaware that the man is Rarken, Dale saves him with an auto-injector .

Now that they know that Harken is allergic to peanuts and Pellit is a coke maker, they come up with a plan to mix the coke with rat poison and hide peanuts in the shampoo. They don't have a murder plan for Harris as Kurt has succumbed to their sexual advances.

However, the plan does not work: Harken finds Pellit's cell phone, suspects an affair with his wife and shoots Pellit. Nick waits outside Pellit's house for an opportunity to poison the coke and watches the murder go unnoticed. Then he drives away in panic and is flashed at high speed, whereupon the police are looking for the car. When the three employees sit in the car together to adjust the plan, the police suspect them of the murder of Pellit and take them to the bureau. Because there isn't enough evidence, they can stop the interrogation and leave.

However, since they have left traces in Pellit's house, and thus soon enough evidence of their guilt will come together, they consult their murder advisor again. They learn that "Motherfuckah" Jones' worst crime was secretly filming snow falling on cedar trees in the cinema. According to Jones' advice, they want to provoke Harken into a confession, while Kurt carries a hidden recording device with him. However, since Kurt is "busy" with von Harken's wife when Harken frankly tells of his murder, they have no audio recording of the confession. After Harken confesses everything to them, he threatens them with death and looks for his weapon. Thereupon they flee by car and are followed and rammed by Harken in the car. Harken forces the three of them to get out and shoots himself in the leg to divert suspicion. When the police arrive, however, Harken can be convicted with the help of a recording of the confession made by the car navigation call center.

Most recently Kurt works happily again under a new boss and Nick is promoted and only reports to the (sadistic) CEO. Dale is able to avoid the stalking of his boss by blackmailing her with video recordings (recorded by "Motherfuckah").

background

In 2005, New Line Cinema acquired the film from screenwriter Michael Markowitz. Later the script, especially the outcome of the film, was rewritten by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley . The filming of the film took place from July 2010 in Los Angeles and the surrounding area. The film had its world premiere on June 30, 2011 at Grauman's Chinese Theater in Los Angeles . The cinema release in the United States was on July 8, 2011, in Germany on September 1, 2011. The production costs were estimated at 35 million US dollars. The film grossed around $ 210 million in cinemas around the world, including 117 million in the United States.

Reviews

“ Horrible Bosses - that's a film title under which you can imagine something. For the local audience, however, the distributor wanted to make sure, as usual, that even the very last potential moviegoer would notice everything and so Kill the Boss is  - you guessed it - the German title. [...] The weird effect arises from the fact that the would-be killers are so stupid and their bosses are so mean. In the middle of the second act, the comedy threatens to sag a little, but then Jamie Foxx makes his appearance just right. "

- Wilfried Hippen - The daily newspaper

“The comedy owes itself in no small part to the actors, who are, so to speak, paradoxically cast. Some of them are hard to recognize, like Aniston (here offensively brunette and aggressively sexy) or Farrell, who has hardly ever played a bigger idiot. The fact that someone like the exceptionally attractive dentist Julia is keen on a staid little man like Dale has its own comic. And the not infrequently mysteriously shadowed Kevin Spacey is clearly a hideous, but absolutely Oscar-worthy asshole. "

- Anke Westphal - Berliner Zeitung

“The film plays with politically incorrect humor so enthusiastically that very few viewers would blame it for it. […] The film's dialogues are already racist, misogynistic and disreputable, all possible genitals, body excretions and erotic preferences find their place. The visual language remains largely free of this. And the grotesque humor is always so ironic that the clichés and prejudices are consistently poked at. [...] A pleasure for friends of slightly dirty satirical entertainment. "

- Franziska Bossy - star

“Weird, rough and very funny: The new Hollywood comedy Kill the Boss has a top-class cast and convinces with improvisations by the actors during the shoot. The spark jumps over with the audience when three troubled employees think about how to get rid of their boss. "

- n-tv

"Lively black comedy from the world of work, which works with clichés, but knows how to implement them lively and comically thanks to the wonderfully performing actors."

- Lexicon of international film

“This Seth Gordon comedy has one problem above all: the over-the-top story only works when the supporting actors (read: the bosses) appear. The three main characters, however, are so pale that the over-the-top joke always falls by the wayside. What is still quite fun at the beginning, soon becomes extremely annoying as the duration increases. It's a shame that could have been more. "

- prisma.de

Awards

continuation

The sequel Kill the Boss 2 was released in the US on November 18, 2014, the film was released in Germany on November 27, 2014. The three main actors and Jennifer Aniston are back, Christoph Waltz is one of the bosses see as well as his son, who is portrayed by Chris Pine .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Release certificate for Kill the Boss . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2011 (PDF; test number: 129 005 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for Kill the Boss . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ Filming locations according to IMDb
  4. ↑ 'Horrible Bosses' premiere: Jennifer Aniston goes over big as a bad girl in the Los Angeles Times on July 1, 2011
  5. ↑ Financial data according to BoxOfficeMojo
  6. ^ Another type of staff council in Die Tageszeitung dated September 1, 2011
  7. ↑ "Kill the Boss": Not recommended for imitation in Berliner Zeitung of September 1, 2011
  8. ^ "Kill the Boss": Murderous satire with star cast in Stern from September 1, 2011
  9. ↑ Black humor with top-class cast on n-tv from September 1, 2011
  10. ↑ Kill the Boss. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed September 15, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  11. ↑ Kill the Boss. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on September 15, 2017 .
  12. ↑ FBW press release of the German Film and Media Assessment
  13. ↑ MTV Movie Awards - Vampires in a popcorn frenzy in Süddeutsche Zeitung on June 4, 2012
  14. ↑ Germain Lussier: `Horrible Bosses 2 ′ Set For Thanksgiving 2014 Release . In: slashfilm.com . September 27, 2013. Retrieved November 22, 2014.