Mrs. Doubtfire - The prickly nanny
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Mrs. Doubtfire - The prickly nanny |
| Original title | Mrs. Doubtfire |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1993 |
| length | 125 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Chris Columbus |
| script |
Randi Mayem Singer , Leslie Dixon |
| production |
Mark Radcliffe , Marsha Garces Williams , Robin Williams |
| music | Howard Shore |
| camera | Donald M. McAlpine |
| cut | Raja Gosnell |
| occupation | |
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Mrs. Doubtfire is a 1993 American film starring Robin Williams , Sally Field and Pierce Brosnan . Directed by Chris Columbus . The film was a huge commercial success and won the Golden Globe Award for Best Comedy in 1994 . The film was based on the novel of the same name by Anne Fine .
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The San Francisco-based voice impersonator and actor Daniel Hillard is kicked out by his wife Miranda when he quits his job again and turns the house into a desolate battlefield at a birthday party for son Christopher.
There is a legal dispute over the custody, which is ultimately awarded to Miranda.
Since he cannot stand the thought of only being allowed to see his three children under supervision once a week, he lets his brother, a trained makeup artist , give him the perfect masquerade of a sixty-year-old lady (Mrs. Doubtfire) and applies coupled with his talent as a voice imitator, to a job as a nanny for his ex-wife.
This falls for the masquerade, and so the disaster takes its course: Daniel works for several months disguised as a housekeeper and nanny. One day his children watch him urinate standing up. However, they promise to keep the secret to themselves because they too want to see their father. One evening he was dizzy when Daniel slipped his mask while visiting a restaurant.
Miranda reacts horrified and is now finally granted custody.
Only when Daniel got his own TV show with the character "Mrs. Doubtfire" by chance and was able to do his househusband duties, Miranda decided to allow him to exercise custody together despite the argument, for the sake of the children.
Naming
The name "Doubtfire" comes from the telephone conversation between Daniel and Miranda, in which he has to come up with a name for his housekeeper alias within seconds. He looks around for advice, and his gaze wanders to a newspaper article with the headline "Police doubt fire was accidental" (translated as: "Police doubt that the fire accidentally broke out").
Differences from the novel
Differences to Anne Fine's template are clear. This can already be seen at the beginning: While the film shows how the divorce comes about, the novel begins after the separation when the children visit their father. Individual subplots as well as in large parts the structure also differ; In the novel, for example, Lydie recognizes during the interview that her father is under the masquerade, which she then tells her brother. The two older children are privy to it from the beginning and have to do most of the housework for their father, who does not mutate into a “household pearl” like in the film, which creates tension. Overall, the novel is less humorous, but rather tragicomic compared to the film and describes Daniel's disguise as an uncomfortable stopgap solution that he takes out of desperation. In the film, the comedic effect of the disguise is primarily achieved by the fact that Daniel does not clumsily stock up on second-hand goods himself, as in the book, but allows his clichéd homosexual brother and his partner to professionally "make over" himself. Daniel is also an actor in the novel, while the profession of voice imitator was deliberately chosen in the film, as more humorous potential was recognized in it. The ending is different too. While custody is split in the film, Daniel is hired by Miranda as a housekeeper in the book.
Production history
It was filmed in San Francisco, including the house at 2640 Steiner Street on Pacific Heights .
Much filmed material was removed from the film prior to release. For the first time, over half an hour of material from cut scenes appeared in the USA in 2008 as an extra on the DVD. The cut material included two emotional, sad scenes with Robin Williams and a complete subplot containing comical encounters between Mrs. Doubtfire and the curious neighbor Gloria. Polly Holiday, the actress who played Gloria, is therefore named fifth in the opening credits, although she only appears briefly in the actual film.
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Awards
Prices
- Oscar for the best mask
- Golden Globe for Best Film (Comedy or Musical)
- Golden Globe for Best Actor (Robin Williams)
Commercial win
The film was seen by around 5.53 million people in German cinemas, making it the fourth most successful film of the year after The Lion King , Flintstones and Schindler's list . In the US, the film grossed $ 218 million. In 1993, Mrs. Doubtfire was the fourth highest-grossing film (only with revenues from 1993). The film ran in theaters until the beginning of 1994 - if you only take into account the income from 1994, the film was still the eleventh most successful of the year. The film was released on VHS cassette and later also on DVD and Blu-ray Disc .
Reviews
Mrs. Doubtfire received mostly positive reviews from the critics. On Rotten Tomatoes , the film got a 71% rating based on 49 counted reviews.
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was "great fun" and praised the "hilarious" humor and depictions that would cover up the film's weaknesses - which include the rather "weak" plot.
Cinema praised the “furious comedy” in “perfect timing”.
The lexicon of international films means that the film is a “Robin Williams-style dress-up comedy” that “never goes beyond shallow entertainment” and “propagates a reactionary image of society” that “virtually ignores the problem of broken families”.
In popular culture
- In the Disney cartoon Aladdin and the Thief King , Robin Williams (who plays the part of the Djinni in the Aladdin series of films) performs a brief parody of his role as Mrs. Doubtfire.
Web links
- Mrs. Doubtfire - The prickly nanny in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Mrs. Doubtfire - The prickly nanny at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Mrs. Doubtfire - The Prickly Nanny at Metacritic (English)
- Mrs. Doubtfire - The Prickly Nanny in the online movie database
- Mrs. Doubtfire - The prickly nanny in the German dubbing file
- Comparison of the cuts BBFC PG first editions - FSK 6 by Mrs. Doubtfire - The prickly nanny at Schnittberichte.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Mrs. Doubtfire - The Prickly Nanny . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2008 (PDF; test number: 70 762 V / DVD).
- ↑ Curt Fields: Go Behind The Seams of 'Mrs. Doubtfire ' . February 29, 2008, ISSN 0190-8286 ( washingtonpost.com [accessed April 6, 2020]).
- ↑ Rare deleted scenes show Mrs Doubtfire was almost too heartbreaking for families. August 11, 2019, accessed April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Jesse Schedeen: 12 Things You Never Knew About 'Mrs. Doubtfire '. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
- ↑ Mrs. Doubtfire - The prickly nanny in the German synchronous file
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated November 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.ofdb.de/film/5788,Mrs-Doubtfire---Das-stachelige-Kinderm%C3%A4dchen List of publications in the OFDb
- ↑ Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes
- ^ Review by James Berardinelli
- ↑ Mrs. Doubtfire - The prickly nanny on cinema.de
- ↑ Mrs. Doubtfire - The Prickly Nanny. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
