Morning Glory (2010)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Morning Glory |
| Original title | Morning Glory |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 108 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 6 JMK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Roger Michell |
| script | Aline Brosh McKenna |
| production |
JJ Abrams Bryan Burk |
| music | David Arnold |
| camera | Alwin Kuchler |
| cut |
Daniel Farrell Nick Moore Steven Weisberg |
| occupation | |
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Morning Glory is an American comedy film directed by Roger Michell . The film was released in American cinemas on November 10, 2010 and opened in German-speaking cinemas on January 13, 2011.
action
Becky Fuller works as a producer on a successful local morning show in New Jersey and is expecting a promotion - as are her colleagues who have already had appropriate T-shirts printed. Instead, she is fired from the team by her boss in order to save costs, in order to be able to pay a new, more highly qualified and established producer who is to be built up to become the head of the station.
She finds a new job on the IBS program Daybreak . There she meets the attractive Adam Bennett, and a romance is developing between the two. The Guten Morgen show, however, is “understaffed, underfunded” and takes fourth place among the shows on breakfast television in terms of audience approval . On her first day at work, Becky fires the gockelike male co-host. As a replacement, it hires the renowned news journalist Mike Pomeroy, taking advantage of a contractual clause. However, he feels the format is below his dignity and is reluctant to moderate light topics, such as cooking in the show. The relationship with his moderator colleague Colleen Peck, a former beauty queen, is characterized by deep dislike.
If the quotas cannot be increased, the program threatens to be canceled. Thanks to innovative changes, Becky succeeds in turning things around for the better. Pomeroy makes the key contribution with a hard-researched reveal story that matches his professional standards, extending the show for another year. Nevertheless, Pomeroy continues to refuse to moderate shallow topics. As a result of her success, Becky receives an offer from the prestigious NBC Today news program . Since this is her greatest childhood dream and Pomeroy would never change, she goes to an interview. When Pomeroy learns about this, he changes his heart and improvises a cooking show on Daybreak. During the job interview, Becky sees Pomeroy on TV and decides to stay with the Daybreak team, which she now considers her family.
production
The film was produced by JJ Abrams ' Bad Robot Productions on a budget of $ 40 million and is distributed by Paramount Pictures .
Reviews
The film received mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes received 98 positive and 80 negative reviews. Metacritic counted 19 positive, 18 mixed and one negative publications. On the Internet Movie Database page, the weighted average score of 6.5 out of 10 was determined from 69,744 users.
“Roger Michell has made his first comedy since Notting Hill (1999) - and sets the pace as if he had just been waiting for it. The rapid exchange of blows is reminiscent of screwball classics such as "His Girl for Special Cases" with Cary Grant. And Michell doesn't commit the faux pas of creating a romance for the young thing and the old hand. Patrick Wilson ("Awkwardly in love") also plays with ... But Hollywood's most charming minimal mime Harrison Ford, who hardly condescends to growl, here ties in with one of his star roles after 22 years, which is easily displaced between all the Jedis and Indy: the businessman in the Eighties classic "The Weapons of Women", who promotes the clever secretary Melanie Griffith from the anteroom to the boardroom. "
“The creepy thing about Morning Glory is the total lack of awareness with which the film deals with its subject. He knows nothing of the fact that the role of the media is being discussed everywhere in newspapers, on television and on the Internet in a period of tremendous change. Instead, director Roger Michell imagines an absurd media dream world in pink and finds the appropriate images for it: McAdams' hair waves in slow motion; People sip coffee from paper cups with important expressions and meet their great love in the elevator; and Harrison Ford, as an eternally grumbling star journalist with a sock fetish, is just as uninhibited as McAdams. What could have been a secondary mainstream melodrama becomes a real annoyance. "
Web links
- Morning Glory in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Reviews of Morning Glory at Moviepilot
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Approval for Morning Glory . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2010 (PDF; test number: 125 268 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Morning Glory . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Movie Projector: 'Unstoppable' seeks to derail 'Megamind' as 'Morning Glory' looks dim , Los Angeles Times, November 22, 2010, accessed November 20, 2010
- ↑ Morning Glory on rottentomatoes.com , accessed February 23, 2020
- ^ Morning Glory on metacritic.com , accessed February 23, 2020
- ↑ Morning Glory on imdb.com , accessed February 23, 2020
- ↑ Review on Cinema.de, accessed on January 14, 2014.
- ↑ Critique on critic.de, accessed on February 24, 2011.