My darling the tyrant
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German title | My darling the tyrant |
Original title | The Beautician and the Beast |
Country of production | United States |
original language | English |
Publishing year | 1997 |
length | 105 minutes |
Age rating | FSK 6 |
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Director | Ken Kwapis |
script | Todd Graff |
production |
Todd Graff , Hawk Cook |
music | Cliff Eidelman |
camera | Peter Lyons Collister |
cut | Jon Poll |
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The Beautician and the Beast is a comedy film from the year 1997 , the relationship of the focusing dictator of a former Eastern Bloc country to nanny is his children.
action
Joy Miller teaches cosmetics and beauty studies at a less successful school in New York City and inadvertently sets the school on fire.
As a result, unemployed, she unintentionally runs into Ira Grushinsky, the private secretary of the dictator Boris Pochenko. He is looking for a teacher and nanny for his four children. Ira, who thinks Joy Miller teaches foreign languages and math, invites the extroverted woman to his employer's country.
Here Joy Miller has to recognize that Boris Pochenko leads a strict regime - not only towards his subjects, but also towards his children.
Joy Miller then decides to bring momentum and spice to the life of the statesman and widower, and comes closer and closer to the strict man.
At the same time, she is caught between the lines of a coup when the young dissident Alek, with whom Pochenko's daughter Katrina is in love, is suspected of attempting an attack on the dictator.
But here, too, Miss Miller can use her charm as well as her simple approaches to mediate between the hardened fronts.
criticism
"Little peppy remake of the film" Anna and the King of Siam "(1946), which relocates its plot to an Eastern European fantasy state. A lot of feeling is evoked, but the conventional story is not completely convincing. Only the main actress knows how to win over her charisma. "
Background information
In 105 minutes, the film tells the complete story of the better-known television series " Die Nanny ", also starring Fran Drescher , albeit with a few small changes. The characters and the occupation of the individual are very similar to the popular US - sitcom .
The film was shot in Beverly Hills , Los Angeles , Prague and at Sychrov Castle in the Czech municipality of Sychrov .
Awards
Fran Drescher was nominated in 1998 with the Golden Raspberry in the category of worst actress .
Web links
- The Beautician and the Beast in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ My darling, the tyrant. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 7, 2017 .
- ^ Sandi Davis: Actress Fits "High Maintenance" Profile ( en ) In: The Oklahoman . February 7, 1997. Retrieved February 24, 2020.