Lies have long legs

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Movie
German title Lies have long legs
Original title The Truth About Cats & Dogs
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1996
length 97 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Michael Lehmann
script Audrey Wells
production Cari-Esta Albert
music Howard Shore
camera Robert Brinkmann
cut Stephen Semel
occupation

Lies have long legs (Original title: The Truth About Cats & Dogs ) is an American comedy film from 1996 based on a screenplay by Audrey Wells , which is loosely based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand . Under the direction of Michael Lehmann played Uma Thurman and Janeane Garofalo the leading roles.

action

Veterinarian Abby Barnes hosts the Truth About Cats & Dogs radio show , which gives callers advice on how to treat their pets. She befriends her neighbor Noelle, who works as a photo model and is more attractive compared to her, but less intelligent.

Abby is called on her show by the photographer Brian, whom she helps solve a problem with his dog. Brian is very impressed and impressed and asks for a date over the studio phone. She agrees, but since she has described herself as Noelle's appearance, unsure about her appearance, she does not appear. When Brian comes into the studio unannounced, where Noelle happens to be present to practice for a job as a TV announcer, Abby asks her neighbor to impersonate Brian. The three of them have the following date, Abby introduces herself as a goat cheese producer. Brian notices a personality difference between Abbey on the radio and Noelle in person. Noelle gives Abby's private number to Brian. The two have a seven-hour, exciting and intimate phone conversation that turns into phone sex .

To resolve the situation, Noelle comes up with the idea of ​​visiting Brian while Abby has her show. Because she lets Brian feed her cake that she forbids herself to feed, she enjoys it so much that she cannot resist kissing him. When the show is presented, she is unable to confess after the experience and Brian offers to drive her to the studio quickly. He still does not notice the dizziness.

When they visit Brian together, they both want to find out more about his feelings in vain. Abby goes first and watches Noelle follow Brian to the first floor of his apartment. Afterwards, Noelle tells her on tape that nothing bigger has happened and that she doesn't want to lose her best friend.

Abbey and Brian meet by chance in town and have a lovely afternoon. Then Noelle meets Brian and tells him to write a list of what he loves about her. When he finishes the list and goes to Abbey's apartment, he meets Abbey instead of Noelle, as expected. He reads her the list; Abbey learns that he likes her as a person, not for the looks of what she likes. Then Brian's eye falls on an advertisement for the show with the photo of Abbey and everything becomes clear to him; Noelle joins them, but Brian leaves.

Brian's anger fades a little later and he and Abbey find each other. She says he only loved one woman and continues to joke that that phone call made her pregnant. Brian asks if she is sure it's from him, to which she replies that she doesn't know exactly because she talked a lot on the phone that evening.

Reviews

James Berardinelli particularly emphasized the portrayal of Janeane Garofalo on ReelViews . In his opinion, Garofalo would work better in the film than Uma Thurman. He also praised the “chemistry” between Garofalo and Chaplin and the direction by Michael Lehmann. The film is "easy entertainment", just as lovers of romantic comedies would expect.

The film service (17/1996) praised the dialogues, but described the comedy as "routine" and denied the production the "courage to take risks".

Ernst Corinth described the plot in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon as "trite" and "banal". But he praised the “brilliant” production and the portrayals of Garofalo and Thurman. Thurman would parody the less intelligent models "wonderfully" and show Garofalo a lot of "self-irony". The film was able to avoid being "embarrassing" or "flat".

Awards

The German Film and Media Evaluation FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.

Janeane Garofalo was nominated for an MTV Movie Award for her role .

proof

  1. ^ Review by James Berardinelli
  2. ↑ Lies have long legs ( memento from April 30, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon
  3. ^ Film review by Ernst Corinth ( Memento from February 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the Dirk Jasper FilmLexikon

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