Made in America (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Made in America |
| Original title | Made in America |
| Country of production | USA , France |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 106 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Benjamin |
| script |
Marcia Brandwynne , Nadine Schiff , Holly Goldberg Sloan |
| production |
Rick Bieber , Arnon Milchan , Michael Douglas |
| music | Mark Isham |
| camera | Ralf D. Bode |
| cut | Jacqueline Cambas |
| occupation | |
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Made in America is a film directed by Richard Benjamin and shot in the USA in 1993 .
action
While determining blood type in biology class, Zora Matthews, an intelligent high school student , discovers that she must have a different father than previously thought. When confronted, her self-confident mother Sarah (who runs her Afro-American shop) has to confess to the daughter that her deceased husband is not Zora's father. Zora is the result of a sperm donation.
Zora finds out her father's name and is horrified to find that he's a white car dealer named Hal. She is torn between the joy of finally finding her father and the thought that he is white, annoying and a car dealer omnipresent in advertising.
Even Hal doesn't know what to think of his unexpected fatherly happiness and initially gets into an argument with Sarah. When Sarah accidentally sabotages a Hal promotion by driving the elephant that goes with it wild and stomping across town, the ties between Hal and the women seem to be severed, but then it turns out that the promotion was a complete success and many new ones Attracts customers.
Hal begins to rethink and seeks contact with Sarah and Zora. He developed more and more fatherly feelings for Zora and finally fell in love with Sarah. But then it turns out that Hal is not Zora's father at all. In the end, however, the three have grown so firmly together as a family that Hal takes on the role of father to Zora and introduces Hal as her dad at her graduation ceremony .
Reviews
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was a "comedy that owes its few highlights to the good actors, but not only loses speed towards the end, but also sinks into overly penetrating American family ideology" .
backgrounds
In Made in America played Will Smith 's second small roll of film. He plays Tea Cake, Sarah's daughter's best friend. The film grossed approximately $ 104.9 million worldwide , including approximately $ 44.9 million in the United States.
Web links
- Made in America in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Made in America atRotten Tomatoes(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Certificate of Approval for Made in America . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2005 (PDF; accessed on February 3, 2018).
- ↑ Made in America. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 24, 2017 .
- ^ Box office / business for Made in America, accessed January 30, 2008