Moving - backwards into chaos
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Moving - backwards into chaos |
| Original title | Moving |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 85 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Alan Metter |
| script | Andy Breckman |
| production |
Stuart Cornfeld , Kim Kurumada |
| music | Howard Shore |
| camera | Donald McAlpine |
| cut | Alan balm |
| occupation | |
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Moving (Original: Moving ) is an American comedy film from 1988 by director Alan Metter .
action
Arlo Pear, a transportation engineer and family man, loses his job in New Jersey but finds a promising new job in Boise, Idaho. Therefore, he and his loving wife Monica have to organize the move to their new workplace with their rebellious daughter Casey, their two twin sons Marshall and Randy and the dog. This gives rise to many crazy incidents with vicious neighbors, a mentally ill removal worker, former convicts as movers (including King Kong Bundy ) and other chaotic plot elements, over which Pear triumphs in the end.
production
When reviewing the script, writer Breckman claimed that Pryor threatened him with a deringer in order to have a scene deleted from the plot in which an old lady is doing her (big) business in a backyard .
Reviews
Janet Maslin wrote in The New York Times , Pryor would not quite in the role of loyal caring and peaceful basically family man à la Bill Cosby fit. This bizarre cast gives the film its own kind of comedy. Moving is not an extraordinary film, but it would probably be particularly entertaining for viewers who have had similar experiences with moving themselves.
Hal Hinson also wondered in The Washington Post about the decision to cast Pryor as a good bore. The film is better than other contemporary Pryor films, but it doesn't get beyond mediocrity. Nevertheless, some good jokes were made. Hinson also praised the visual atmosphere of the film, which director Metter was responsible for.
The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "a decidedly uncomfortable comedy, the situation comedy, cliché variations and pure nonsense in the American middle-class milieu".
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andy Breckman: “ Nobody Move! It's Richard Pryor! “, In: WFMUs LCD , 20, 1997.
- ↑ Janet Maslin : Moving (1988) , in: The New York Times , March 5, 1988.
- ↑ Hal Hinson, 'Moving' (R) , in: The Washington Post , March 7, 1988.
- ↑ Moving - backwards into chaos. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Moving - backward into chaos in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Moving - backward into chaos at Rotten Tomatoes (English)