Darling, will you hold the ax?
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Darling, will you hold the ax? |
| Original title | So I Married an Ax Murderer |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 93 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Thomas Schlamme |
| script | Robbie Fox |
| production |
Robert N. Fried , Cary Woods |
| music | Bruce Broughton |
| camera | Julio Macat |
| cut |
Colleen Halsey , Richard Halsey |
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Darling, will you hold the ax? (Original title: So I Married an Ax Murderer) is an American comedy film from 1993. Directed by Thomas Schlamme , it stars Mike Myers , Nancy Travis , Anthony LaPaglia and Amanda Plummer .
action
Charlie Mackenzie, who lives in San Francisco, takes a liking to the butcher Harriet Michaels. His affection is reciprocated and Harriet becomes his girlfriend. When he introduces her to his parents, he comes across the newspaper page that his mother once showed him: A murderess, whose three husbands were killed with an ax on their honeymoon, has gone into hiding. Details of her biography match that of Harriet. Charlie then ended the relationship.
Shortly thereafter, his friend Tony Giardino, a police officer , informed him that someone had confessed to one of the murders. There is a harmless explanation for one of the suspicions, and Charlie can win Harriet back. They get married and go on their honeymoon, initially to a hotel. Meanwhile, Tony has learned that the woman who confessed to the murder is mentally confused. Friends of the victims identify Harriet as a wife on faxed photos. Tony can give Charlie a phone call before a storm shuts down the line.
Charlie now locks Harriet in the closet of the hotel room, but then finds herself exposed to ax attacks by her sister Rose, who has always lived with Harriet. She killed their husbands out of jealousy and with fake farewell letters pretended to Harriet that they had been abandoned. The arriving Tony can finally arrest the real murderer.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that mystery films had to be “complex”, “compelling” and “seductive”, which was “definitely” not true of this film. The humor is "banal" and only sporadically amusing. Berardinelli praised the cameos of Alan Arkin, Charles Grodin and Phil Hartman.
Roger Ebert described the comedy in the Chicago Sun-Times on July 30, 1993 as "a mediocre film in which a good one is caught".
The lexicon of international films judged: "Due to the pale leading actor and the poorly developed basic idea, a comedy emerged that only developed a little joke on the margins."
background
The film was shot in California . Production costs for TriStar Pictures were estimated at $ 20 million. At the US box office, the film grossed approximately $ 11.6 million.
Web links
- Darling, will you hold the ax? in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Darling, will you hold the ax? at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Darling, will you hold the ax? in the online film database
- Darling, will you hold the ax? in the German dubbing index