Men at Work (1990)

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Movie
German title Men at Work
Original title Men at Work
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1990
length 88 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Emilio Estevez
script Emilio Estevez
production Cassian Elwes
music Stewart Copeland
camera Tim Suhrstedt
cut Craig Bassett
occupation

Men at Work is an American comedy film from 1990 .

action

James and Carl work together on garbage collection and don't take regulations that seriously. However, both have a dream. You want to open a surf shop. After repeated complaints about the two of them, they were assigned a new colleague, Louis Fedders. He is the brother-in-law of their boss and a rough leg who is supposed to watch the two of them in order to then decide whether they can keep their job or not.

Entrepreneur Maxwell Potterdam III illegally dumps toxic waste . Jack Berger, who is in the middle of the election campaign for the mayoral election, is involved and wants to get out. He wants to bring Potterdam to justice, so he taped the last conversation he had with him. When he tries to hand this over to a police officer, he discovers that it was accidentally swapped by his assistant Susan Wilkins.

Carl lives in the apartment block across from Susan and has been watching her for quite some time. In the evening Berger comes to her apartment and, completely beside himself, demands the tape from her. She leaves the apartment to get it. Despite James's contradiction, Carl takes his air rifle and shoots Berger in the buttocks. As they hide after the shot, they do not see two men enter Susan Wilkins' apartment, murder Berger and take the body with them. The inspector Berger had turned to had told Potterdam about the existence of the tape.

The killers put the corpse in a yellow barrel, but lose it when it falls out of the trunk while driving. When the trio Carl, James and Louis come across the barrel with the corpse at work the next day, they don't know what to do. James and Carl initially suspect that Carl Berger killed with his hit by the air rifle. However, when Louis finds out that Berger has been strangled, the two are relieved. However, Louis does not want to go to the police because he hates cops. When the two bicycle policemen Mike and Jeff show up, Carl, James and Louis are forced to cover up Berger's death and pretend that Berger is a friend of theirs who has drunk you too much. Because Carl and James have long been a thorn in the side of the two somewhat moronic law enforcement officers. So they take the body home to Carl.

Now the three have to think about something to prove their innocence. First, they suspect Susan Wilkins. Carl arrives at their apartment on an excuse to find evidence of the crime, while Louis and James watch him from his apartment. Louis (armed with nothing more than an air rifle) unceremoniously takes a pizza delivery boy hostage, who happens to see the two of them in Carl's apartment with the body. There is a spark between Susan and Carl and when they are lying on the beach in the evening, they are found by the two Potterdams henchmen who are looking for the tape. However, the two manage to escape. Now Carl knows that Susan has nothing to do with Berger's murder.

A little later, however, they are found by Potterdam and his men and in turn put in yellow barrels in a Potterdam factory to be sunk in the sea. James, Louis and the pizza delivery boy, who by now knows that he has been held in check by an air rifle and has joined them, watch the attack and follow them. They gain access to the plant and try to save them. Carl can quickly free himself from his bin, but Susan is still in a bin on the way to the disposal point. James and Carl confront Potterdam and his men and eventually free Susan. Potterdam himself, after trying to run over her with a bulldozer, is rendered harmless and arrested by the quintet.

criticism

"The satirical-critical intention to denounce the entanglement of political power and private-economic interests is lost in a mixture of vacillation and action."

- Lexicon of international film

“Emilio Estevez presented his second directorial work with this crime comedy and was also responsible for the script. In his work, peppered with sarcastic gags, the filmmaker and actor dealt with the problem of environmental pollution. "I grew up in Southern California," he said, "and I like to walk in Santa Monica Bay for the rest of my life. It's a crime that this beautiful piece of earth is slowly but surely degenerating into America's toilet." Emilio Estevez's partner is his brother Charlie Sheen for the fourth time in the film. "

- prism

Soundtrack

Men at Work ( Rhino / Wea, July 18, 1990)

  1. Wear You to the Ball - UB40
  2. Super cool - Sly & Robbie
  3. Big Pink House - Tyrants in Therapy
  4. Feeling Good - Pressure Drop
  5. Back to Back - The Blood Brothers
  6. Take Heed - Black Uhuru
  7. Here and Beyond - Sly & Robbie
  8. Truthful - The Blood Brothers
  9. Reggae Ambassador - Third World
  10. Give a Little Love - Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
  11. Playas Dawn - Stewart Copeland
  12. Pink Panther No. 23 - Stewart Copeland
  13. Pump up the Jam - Technotronic

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Men at Work. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Men at Work , prisma.de