Envy (film)

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Movie
German title envy
Original title Envy
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2004
length 99 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Barry Levinson
script Steve Adams
production Barry Levinson ,
Paula Weinstein
music Mark Mothersbaugh
camera Tim Maurice-Jones
cut Blair Daily ,
Stu Linder
occupation

Envy ( Envy ) is an American comedy film of Barry Levinson from the year 2004 .

action

Tim Dingman and Nick Vanderpark are neighbors and friends, they also work in the same sandpaper mill. Vanderpark develops a spray, the "Vapoorizer", which makes the dog's excrement disappear. Dingman gets jealous, doesn't focus on work, and berates his boss. He is then released. In a bar he meets the J-Man who becomes his advisor. The J-Man is a guy between bum and organizational genius who gets into bizarre situations in the course of the film.

Tim Dingman accidentally kills Nick Vanderpark's favorite horse while drunk with a bow and arrow. He buries the carcass in his garden.

Nick Vanderpark offers a US $ 50,000 reward for finding his horse. Dingman and J-Man dig up the horse and want it to disappear outside of town so that J-Man can find it and collect the reward. Unfortunately, the horse falls from Dingman's wagon while it is being transported and remains missing.

Meanwhile, Vanderpark's wife is running for the city senate. She is harassed by demonstrators who want to know where the removed excrement would go.

Dingman's wife blames him for not being rich. Vanderpark offers him a business partnership, which Dingman accepts. The two travel around the world to promote their wonder drug. The night before the rally, the two speak out, and Dingman tells his friend about the horse's death; Vanderpark forgives him and wants Dingmann to remain his partner.

At the rally for the wife of Vanderpark the next day, the carcass of the dead horse drifts by on the river next to the substation. The horse is then taken to veterinary medicine for an autopsy. There it is stated that the miracle drug “Vapoorizer” in connection with feces can be fatal for living beings. This fact leads Tim and Nick to bankruptcy, whereupon both friends have to auction their property. In the end, Dingman comes up with a new invention (Pocket Flan).

Reviews

Michael Rechtsshaffen wrote in The Hollywood Reporter on April 30, 2004 that the comedy resembled a talk show on television. The plot is far too poor (“seriously under-plotted script”), which only partially compensates for the “brilliant charisma” of the actors.

Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone magazine on April 29, 2004 that the film was not even "half-baked". The critic scoffed with a play on words that the answer to the question asked in the film "Where did the shit go?" ("Where did the excrement go?") Was: "In the script".

The lexicon of international films describes the plot as "a chaotic farce [...] which all too quickly loses the courage to be anarchic exaggeration". The film leaves "countless construction sites, with the tone changing listlessly from satire to silly slapstick, from bitterness to lulling sweetness".

Awards

Ben Stiller was nominated for this film as Worst Actor for the Golden Raspberry 2005 .

background

The film was shot from July to September 2002 in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro , among others . The budget was estimated at 40 million US dollars . The film was released in cinemas in the United States on April 30, 2004 and grossed approximately 12.2 million US dollars there. The German theatrical release was on September 23, 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for envy . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2004 (PDF; test number: 99 246 K).
  2. ^ Critique by Michael Rechtshaffen ( memento of September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 11, 2007
  3. ^ Review by Peter Travers , accessed July 11, 2007
  4. ↑ envy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  5. ↑ Locations , accessed July 11, 2007
  6. ↑ Box Office / business , accessed July 11, 2007
  7. ↑ Start dates , accessed on July 11, 2007