My son, the smart ass
| Movie | |
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| Original title | My son, the smart ass |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 89 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Pia Strietmann |
| script |
Lea Schmidbauer Pia Strietmann |
| production | Heike Wiehle-Timm |
| music | Martin Stock |
| camera | Eeva Fleig |
| cut | Sebastian Thümler |
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Mein Sohn der Klugscheißer is a German TV film from 2016 with Alwara Höfels in the leading role. The topic is the relationship between a single mother and her gifted son and the challenges that come with it.
action
Deborah Höffner works as a bus driver in Hamburg. While she's interested in dogs, cat videos, musicals, and fashion, her son has completely different interests. He is afraid of dogs, calculates the prices including discounts when shopping, takes care of his mother's utility bill and observes his surroundings very analytically. He has no friends at school, is bullied by his classmates and is sometimes not understood by his teachers. When Deborah's friend Marco notices this, he advises Jerôme to defend himself against the provoking classmates, whereupon he breaks a classmate's nose at the next provocation. This gives reason to introduce him to the school psychologist Ms. Laas.
On the basis of a tip from Jerômes' art teacher, the possibility of giftedness is also being considered. Confronted with the possibilities of a “normal but behavioral child” or a “gifted child”, Deborah does everything to classify her son as normal. Because she is afraid of losing her son if, for example, he would move to boarding school because of the gifted support he is entitled to. She herself grew up in a home and definitely wants to prevent this from happening to her child. Jerôme overhears this conversation and manipulates his test results so that no giftedness can be attested. The psychologist nevertheless has her doubts and offers the opportunity to introduce herself to a boarding school for the gifted. They also look at the boarding school, but Deborah - unlike her son - sees no opportunities for Jerôme here. They don't even have french fries, spaghetti bolo or cola there.
Jerôme tries to come to terms with his classmates, he also makes a new friend, Said, who helps him to be accepted into the school's softball team. Said helps Jerôme when the classmate with the broken nasal bone ambushes him again. This leads to significant unrest among the parents of the classmates, who rate Jerôme as aggressive and would like to expel him from school. Due to differing views on Jerôme, Deborah and Marco quarrel, so they split up. Jerôme drives Said to the boarding school with Said without his mother's knowledge and takes the recruitment test, whereupon he is certified as gifted on the basis of an intelligence quotient of 137. He would like to move to boarding school himself, but he also knows that he would have to leave his mother alone for a while. Despite his fear of dogs, Jerôme and Said's contacts organize a dog for Deborah. He also tries to find a new friend for his mother by reactivating his mother's profile on a dating portal and writing that she is interested in mathematics, astrophysics and evolutionary biology.
When Deborah finds out that Jerôme was at boarding school and also activated her profile with false information, a dispute between mother and son breaks out. Here Jerôme says that he hates his school, his classmates are all stupid and mean. Deborah was also stupid. She says he can't go to boarding school and he can't see Said again either. Then Jerôme runs away. With Marco's help, Deborah looks for Jerôme; they also go to boarding school, but Jerôme is not there. There is a conversation with the director and Mrs. Laas, in which Deborah again expresses her fear for her son. The advantages for Jerôme are shown once again if he were to receive the appropriate funding here. Upon her return to the apartment, Deborah discovers that Jerôme is back. They seek conversation and despite their worries about their son, she allows Jerôme to go to boarding school.
In the last scene, Deborah, Marco and Said go to boarding school. Jerôme gives a talk on astrophysics in English.
background
The film celebrated its television premiere on October 7, 2016 in the first .
reception
Rainer Tittelbach praises the film in his rating at tittelbach.tv (5 out of 6 stars) and particularly emphasizes the performance of the main roles: "The film by Pia Strietmann shows the painful process of detachment between drama and comedy: dramaturgically dense, psychologically coherent, cinematic fluid, and there are also some hearty laughs. Particularly noteworthy: The child role is equal to the adult in every respect and it captivates with its own sense; the boy is neither a victim nor an object of maudlin. Höfels & Ehrenreich are great! "
Karolin Jacquemain thinks the film “shows the painful process of separation between parent and child; he tells of being different and letting go. It is remarkable for German television that he does not lose his light footedness. "
According to the lexicon of international films , it is a "[un] entertaining (television) social comedy that does not ignore serious nuances." Maximilian Ehrenreich is praised , who "[convinces] in the title role of the talented little one."
Web links
- My son, who smartass in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Rainer Tittelbach: TV film "My son, the smart ass". In: tittelbach.tv . 2016, accessed August 23, 2020 .
- ↑ Karolin Jacquemain: "My son, the smart ass": Not strange, but clever. Hamburger Abendblatt, accessed on July 12, 2020.
- ↑ a b My son, the smart ass. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed July 13, 2020 .