New in Town
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | New in Town |
| Original title | New in Town |
| Country of production | USA , Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2009 |
| length | 97 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Jonas Elmer |
| script |
Ken Rance , C. Jay Cox |
| production |
Paul Brooks , Tracey E. Edmonds , Phyllis Laing , Andrew Paquin , Peter Safran , Darryl Taja |
| music | John Swihart |
| camera | Chris Seager |
| cut | Troy Takaki |
| occupation | |
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New in Town , also known as New in Town , is a US - Canadian comedy film from 2009. It stars Renée Zellweger and Harry Connick Jr.
action
As an aspiring career woman, Lucy Hill agrees reluctantly to travel from sunny Miami to snowy New Ulm , Minnesota , for her company to restructure the local yogurt factory for profit. Not prepared for the cold, Lucy arrives frozen in high heels and miniskirt in New Ulm. Secretary Blanche Gunderson, a devout Christian who loves to make scrapbooks , greets Lucy warmly and invites her to dinner. While eating together, Lucy gets into a capitalism debate with Ted Mitchell, another guest whom she insults during the increasingly heated exchange of words. They both leave the table furious. The next day, Lucy lets foreman Stu Kopenhafer show her the factory and announces to the workers that they want to make more profit with modernization measures. It is immediately clear to both men and women, however, that modernization primarily means reducing the workforce. In her office, Lucy meets Ted, who turns out to be a union leader , and gets into another argument with him. Because she believes she has been fooled with the “Ice Day” as a local holiday, she spontaneously dismisses the veteran Stu and insists on her decision even when Ted asks her to reconsider the matter.
After all, Lucy has had enough of the mentality and the Christian-conservative attitude of those around her and wants to go back to Miami. However, due to the bad weather, all flights will be canceled. On the way from the airport back to New Ulm, Lucy gets stuck in the snow with her car. She attaches red underwear to the car antenna - in the hope of being rescued as soon as possible. After all, it is Ted who finds the now tipsy Lucy, frees her from the car and brings her home. Then Lucy begins to take a liking to the down-to-earth inhabitants of the small town. She apologizes to Ted for her behavior and takes care of his 13-year-old daughter Bobbie after he has ruined his hairstyle with a perm. Lucy drives Bobbie to another barber shop and dresses her for a date with a boy. While Bobbie is away, Lucy and Ted, who has been a widower for six years, get closer. Together with Stu they go crow hunting. When Lucy has to step out into the wilderness, but cannot open her jumpsuit, Ted comes to her aid. She accidentally shoots him in the rump. In the factory the workers make fun of the hunting accident, whereupon Lucy brings Ted a homemade cake as compensation.
When Lucy flies to Miami for an interim report and calls Blanche from there to look for a forgotten document in her desk, Blanche happens to find an extensive list of the names of colleagues who are about to be fired. Meanwhile, Lucy learns that the factory is being shut down completely and that all workers would lose their jobs. When she returns to New Ulm and Blanche confronts her with the resignation list she has found, Lucy tells her that her superiors in Miami want to close the factory. Lucy does everything she can to save the factory and its jobs. A new recipe is planned and Blanche's recipe for tapioca pudding seems to be the solution. In order to achieve an all-important market test with the new product within a month , the workers have to work numerous hours of overtime. After all, it is Stu who encourages the workers to implement Lucy's plan, with which she is putting her own career at risk. After a successful market test, Lucy rises to the position of Vice President in her company and returns to Miami. When the factory is about to be sold, she decides to take over the management of the factory again and to work with investors to ensure that the workforce can gradually buy the factory themselves. Union leader Ted doesn't mind and kisses Lucy in front of the assembled workforce.
background
The shooting took place in November 2007 in Los Angeles , Miami and Selkirk as well as in Winnipeg with temperatures down to minus 47 degrees.
New in Town opened in US cinemas on January 30, 2009, where the $ 8 million film grossed $ 16.7 million. The film grossed a total of $ 29 million worldwide. The film was released in German cinemas on November 26, 2009. It was released on DVD on March 31, 2010. The first broadcast on German television followed on December 7, 2012 on ZDFneo .
Soundtrack
In addition to the soundtrack by John Swihart, the following songs can be heard in the film:
- Steer - Missy Higgins
- Do Your Stuff - Perk Badger
- Move by Yourself - Donavon Frankenreiter
- I'm Movin 'Out - APM Music
- 20th Century Boy - T. Rex
- Walking on Sunshine 2004 - Katrina and the Waves
- I Will Survive - briefly interpreted by Renée Zellweger
- Boss of Everything - Crit Harmon
- Race You - Elizabeth & The Catapult
- Life Is Good - Brittini Black
- On the other side - Cisco
- Another Country - Tift Merritt
- Just Because We're Over - Marty Jensen
- That's Where It Is - Carrie Underwood
- In the Thick of It - Moot Davis
- Hey You - Natalia Safran and Mikołaj Jaroszyk
Reviews
The lexicon of international films called New in Town a "[s] stenciled romantic comedy with lovelessly designed characters". The story is “clichéd” and is “covered with a socially critical topic” without the film showing any “interest in the life situation of the protagonists”. Cinema, on the other hand, found that the “tried and tested formula for success” of films like Local Hero and Willkommen bei den Sch'tis “also works this time” thanks to “the lovingly developed characters and the devastatingly comical Renée Zellweger” . “The punchy story” holds “hardly any surprises” in store, “but the fun the actors had while shooting is downright contagious”.
Anke Westphal from the Berliner Zeitung was New in Town a "funny", but also "annoying" movie. It is about "a questionable fairy tale in which romantic anti-capitalism and conservative traditionalism enter into an alliance". With regard to gender comedies, “you have been a lot further”, “around the 1940s”. If you ignore the "essential annoyance", you can "have fun". Prisma was also not very fond of New in Town . The film is "one of those Renée Zellweger vehicles that have little to do with acting". Zellweger could "only come up as an annoying bitch in a story that was absolutely predictable after a few seconds with her forever identical, grumpy duck face". The Danish filmmaker Jonas Elmer should have done without filming "such a boring, interchangeable plot". According to TV Movie , the film is only something "for die-hard romantics".
German version
The German synchronous processing was created by the Berliner Synchron AG Wenzel Lüdecke.
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Lucy Hill | Renée Zellweger | Ranja Bonalana |
| Ted Mitchell | Harry Connick Jr. | Benjamin Völz |
| Blanche Gunderson | Siobhan Fallon Hogan | Heidrun Bartholomäus |
| Stu Kopenhafer | JK Simmons | Jan Spitzer |
| Trudy Van Uuden | Frances Conroy | Helga Sasse |
| Bobbie Mitchell | Ferron Guerreiro | Josephine Schmidt |
| Donald Arling | Robert Small | Reinhard Kuhnert |
| Billy Gunderson | Dan Augusta | Jeffrey Wipprecht |
| Waylon | Benjamin Beauchemin | Constantin von Jascheroff |
Web links
- New in Town in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- New in Town at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Official website (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. cinema.de
- ↑ cf. boxofficemojo.com
- ^ New in Town. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Anke Westphal: Too stupid to dress appropriately? . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 26, 2011.
- ↑ cf. prisma.de
- ↑ cf. tvmovie.de ( 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.
- ^ New in Town. In: synchronkartei.de. German dubbing file , accessed on March 2, 2017 .
