New York Mom
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | New York Mom |
| Original title | Motherhood |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Katherine Dieckmann |
| script | Katherine Dieckmann |
| production |
Rachel Cohen Jana Edelbaum Pamela Koffler Christine Vachon John Wells |
| music | Joe Henry |
| camera | Nancy Schreiber |
| cut | Michael R. Miller |
| occupation | |
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New York Mom (Original Title: Motherhood) is an American comedy film directed by Katherine Dieckmann from 2009 with Uma Thurman in the lead role.
action
Eliza is a mom and a blogger. She lives with her family in two apartments on the third floor in the middle of New York, opposite the elementary school. On the sixth birthday of her daughter Clara, Eliza still has to run some errands for the birthday party. In the morning the family leaves the house to take Clara to school and to move the car for street cleaning. Once on the street, Eliza first notices that she is still in her nightgown and has forgotten her daughter's bag. In the meantime, your husband has seen a box of books that he is collecting. Then she goes upstairs alone to get the bag and change. She publishes a message on her blog and, after entering it, receives a message in a pop-up window that a women's magazine has advertised a competition. Articles with 500 words should explain what mother means and the first place gets a job with the magazine.
When she arrives at school, she meets her best friend Sheila and it occurs to her that the family dog has not yet been taken out. Arriving at the car where her husband Avery and son Lucas are waiting, she informs him that the dog still has to get out. Avery himself has no time because he has to go to an appointment and is on his way. So Eliza has to go up again with her son and then down again with the dog to walk the dog and move the car for the street cleaning. After reparking, she goes to the park with her son and starts the article. During this time, Jodie Foster also enters the park with her daughter and insults the paparazzi. Meanwhile, her street was closed for filming and her car was towed away. Back at home, she continues to write the article for the competition, which is to be controlled by Avery. While Avery takes care of Lucas, Eliza runs the errands for the birthday party by bike and keeps getting into conflict with other people.
Back at home, the messenger Nikesh hands her an envelope for the man. He helps her carry the bags up and they get to know each other better in their apartment. Even before everything is prepared for the birthday party, she reads the review of her work. The criticism makes her angry and she decides to run away. When she arrived in New Jersey and spoke to her husband on the phone, she changed her mind and celebrated the sixth birthday of her daughter Clara with the family. After the party ends, Avery informs his wife that the box with the books contained a first signed work by an important writer and that he received several thousands of dollars for it. The film ends when the family watches the evening filming.
production
New York Mom was made on an estimated budget of $ 10 million by film production companies John Wells Productions , Killer Films, and iDeal Partners Film Fund . According to other sources, the budget is said to have been only $ 5 million. Filming began in May 2008 and took place in New York . The film was not particularly marketed, so that large numbers of viewers stayed away. On April 16, 2008, it was announced that Anthony Edwards would be the husband of Uma Thurman and Minnie Driver would be her pregnant best friend. Minni Driver was actually pregnant while filming, and had a son in September 2008.
Technical details
An Arriflex camera was used for the recordings and recorded on 35 mm with an aspect ratio of 1.85: 1 and in Dolby Digital .
publication
film Festival
The film premiered on January 21, 2009 at the Sundance Film Festival . In Germany, the comedy was released on February 6, 2009 at the European Film Market , before it was presented on October 8, 2009 at the Chicago International Film Festival and on October 10, 2009 at the Mill Valley Film Festival .
movie theater
While New York Mom was still showing at some film festivals, the drama with Uma Thurman was released on August 28, 2009 in Spanish cinemas. The film was released in US cinemas with restrictions on October 23, 2009. The film opened in French cinemas on December 2, 2009. In January 2010, New York Mom was released in Singapore, Brazil and Mexico before it launched in London on March 5, 2010 .
Home entertainment
New York Mom premiered in Italy on August 20, 2009. In 2010, the film was released as a direct-to-DVD production in Hungary, Poland, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands. The film was broadcast on Swiss television on August 14, 2012 on SF2 .
Award
Uma Thurman was named Best Actress at the Boston Film Festival.
Gross profit
The film was a financial flop; With a budget of around 10 million US dollars, it brought in only 0.73 million US dollars worldwide. In US cinemas, it took in only $ 50,081 on the opening weekend with 48 copies. Only twelve people saw the film in the London cinema, the grossing results on the opening weekend was £ 88 (the equivalent of € 96); only one visitor saw the film on the opening night.
occupation
| actor | role | Role designation |
|---|---|---|
| Uma Thurman | Eliza Welch | Main role |
| Anthony Edwards | Avery McKendrik | Husband of Eliza |
| Daisy Tahan | Clara Welch | Daughter of Eliza |
|
David Schallipp Matthew Schallipp |
Lucas Welch | Son of Eliza |
| Minnie Driver | Sheila | best friend of Eliza |
| Alice Drummond | Edith | old neighbor of Eliza |
| Stephanie Szostak | Sandrine | French neighbor of Eliza |
| Celina Vignaud | Isabella | Daughter of Sandrine |
| Arjun Gupta | Mikesh | delivery boy |
| Jodie Foster | Jodie Foster | Cameo, mother in the park |
synchronization
The synchronization was carried out by Bavaria Film in Munich.
| actor | Dubbing voice | role |
|---|---|---|
| Uma Thurman | Petra Barthel | Eliza Welsh |
| Arjun Gupta | Johannes Raspe | Nikesh |
| Minnie Driver | Carin C. Tietze | Sheila |
| Lois Robbins | Tatiana Pokorny | Nervous woman |
Reviews
“As a mother of two and a would-be writer, she is overwhelmed by a stressful everyday life - neither particularly entertaining nor somehow funny staged by director Katherine Dieckmann. It is all too understandable that the lame comedy was spared its ruin in the cinema. "
"A hardly amusing comedy about the pitfalls of modern motherhood, which is largely lost in bloodless clichés and arouses little sympathy and interest for its characters."
Web links
- Motherhood in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- New York Mom on Filmstarts.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Thurman prepares for 'Motherhood'. Variety , April 16, 2008, accessed October 22, 2012 .
- ^ Scene Stealer - Suddenly, Hollywood Seems a Conservative Investment. New York Times , January 24, 2009, accessed October 22, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Motherhood: Only 88 pounds for a mega flop with Uma Thurman. March 28, 2010, accessed October 22, 2012 .
- ↑ a b "Motherhood": Uma Thurman's cinema flop. diepresse, March 29, 2010, accessed on October 22, 2012 .
- ↑ a b Uma Thurman Film - Only Poland is worse. moviepilot, March 29, 2010, accessed October 22, 2012 .
- ^ A b New York Mom in the Lexicon of International Films
- ↑ Awards. (PDF; 44 kB) Boston Film Festival, accessed October 22, 2012 .
- ↑ Motherhood Awards. IMDb , accessed October 22, 2012 .
- ↑ New York Mom. MovieJones, accessed October 22, 2012 .
- ↑ Motherhood. BoxOfficeMojo, accessed October 22, 2012 .
- ↑ The Uma Thurman film so bad it made £ 88 on opening weekend. The Guardian , March 26, 2010, accessed October 22, 2012 .
- ^ New York Mom. German dubbing files , accessed April 25, 2013 .
- ↑ New York Mom. (No longer available online.) Computer image , formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 22, 2012 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
