My aggravated weekend
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | My aggravated weekend |
| Original title | The Long Weekend |
| Country of production |
Canada , United States , United Kingdom |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2005 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Pat Holden |
| script | Tad saffron |
| production |
Shawn Williamson , Paul Brooks |
| music | David A. Hughes |
| camera | Brian Pearson |
| cut | Martin Brinkler |
| occupation | |
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The Long Weekend is an American comedy film from the year 2005 .
action
Cooper Waxman's brother Ed is a video archivist. Everything he films is archived. This will give him skills that will enable him to embark on a successful career in advertising after college. Unfortunately, he catches his college lover, Cathy, having sex with his college friend Jack, and the worst part for him is that they were filming each other with Ed's camera. It's enough for him, he moves out of the shared apartment and swears never to touch a camera again. In the following years he becomes more and more closed and withdraws more and more, so that his work also suffers. He loses a major customer, Great Bridge , and is about to be laid off. In order to win the customer back, his employer gives him a deadline over the weekend.
Cooper wants to build up his brother morally and uses his birthday to pick up two young women in the pub in the evening. But Ed doesn't seem interested in Susie's sex offer. He just has his job in mind and just doesn't want to be distracted anymore. Since Cooper does not give up, they visit a horse farm the next morning, where they are mistaken for pedophiles . Then they end up at the funeral of the supermodel Simone, where Cooper, disguised as a pastor, not only gives the funeral oration, but also uses the opportunity to get to know women. Ed is mostly reserved, but gets wild when he learns that Cathy has married Jack. But all other attempts to get to know women in the strip club, laundromat and fitness center are just as disastrous as the alleged sex between him and a prostitute, which ends up in prison and has to spend the night with a Viagra addict .
When Cooper pulls him out the next morning, Ed is so mad that he hits him. Full of frustration, horror and anger, he tries to get home alone, while on the way he meets his beautiful neighbor Ellen, who helps him by treating his head wound. He spends the night with her and they sleep together. During sex, Ed comes up with the idea of how to save his job. He uses his video collection, which has been built up and archived over many years, in order to use all the recorded disasters and accidents to advertise the insurance group. The Great Bridge manager is delighted. Ed keeps his job, gets promoted, moves in with Ellen and can't hold back his glee when he hears how bad Cathy is.
Reviews
“Brute comedy that shows physicality from its most animalistic side and only with difficulty escapes the accusation of child pornography. A sexist film, honest, stupid and empty. "
“What sounds like a typical relationship comedy turns out to be a repulsive piece of work about body odors and fluids, in which no cliché is left out. Every pseudo-gag (about sex, flatulence, urgency, masturbation, etc.) is deprived of every punchline by an unbearable length, every stupid sex joke is robbed of its smirking disgustingness. Somehow, American gag writers seem to have severe psychological problems with their bodies. Repulsive! "
publication
The film had its world premiere on August 5, 2005 in Spain. After further theatrical releases in different countries, including a limited one on June 9, 2006 in the USA, it opened on June 29, 2006 in Germany. The film grossed a little more than 3 million US dollars worldwide. The film has been available on DVD in German since November 30, 2006 .
Web links
- Long Weekend in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- My tight weekend in the German dubbing file
- Long Weekend at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for my aggravated weekend . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2006 (PDF; test number: 104 921 K).
- ↑ My aggravated weekend. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed August 31, 2017 .
- ↑ My aggravated weekend. In: prisma.de. prisma-Verlag , accessed on August 31, 2017 .
- ^ The Long Weekend (2006) at boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed June 9, 2012