A thousand more words

Movie
German title	A thousand more words
Original title	A thousand words
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	2012
length	91 minutes
Age rating	FSK 0
Rod
Director	Brian Robbins
script	Steve Koren
production	Nicolas Cage , ; Alain Chabat , ; Stephanie Danan , ; Norman Golightly , ; Sharla Sumpter , ; Brian Robbins
music	John Debney
camera	Clark Mathis
cut	Ned Bastille
occupation
	Eddie Murphy : Jack McCall; Kerry Washington : Caroline McCall; Clark Duke : Aaron Wiseberger; Cliff Curtis : Dr. Sinja; Allison Janney : Samantha Davis; Ruby Dee : Annie McCall; Jack McBrayer : Starbucks salesman; Alain Chabat : Christian Léger de la Touffe; John Witherspoon : blind man;
synchronization

Another Thousand Words (Original title: A Thousand Words ) is an American comedy film directed by Brian Robbins from 2012. Eddie Murphy plays the leading role . A Thousand Words was already completed in 2008, but was not brought to cinemas from the distributor until 2012.

action

Jack McCall is a successful literary agent. He cheats various things in his private and professional life by lying to people and harassing them. His next business coup is to publish the book by the successful New Age guru Dr. Sinja for sale. He whispers to him that he has read his book and is enthusiastic. Thereupon he promises the reluctant Sinja to market the book in his sense. To celebrate his success, he goes to his demented mother, who, however, thinks he is his father Raymond, who left the family when Jack was little. Problems are also waiting for him at home, as his wife really wants to move out of his house because she thinks it is not suitable for children.

Meanwhile, the house is ravaged by an alleged earthquake, but Jack discovers that a tree has grown in his garden that he had previously kept with Dr. Sinja had seen. He confronts the guru, who tells him that he is now connected to the tree and that it is losing a leaf for every word spoken by Jack. If the tree lost all of its leaves, Jack would die. To support him, the guru travels to Bolivia, where he meets like-minded people, and promises to speak to Jacks Baum as well. The fact that Jack is now stingy with words does not of course benefit his fragile marriage and business endeavors. As it turns out, Dr. Sinja's book is only five pages, which makes it even more difficult to sell. On top of that, his humiliated assistant Aaron takes advantage of the situation and ruins a business conversation.

Returning from his trip, Dr. Sinja Jack, who has since been fired by his boss, to put his affairs in order. Jack takes this to heart and makes all those rejected by him happy. He also poses as Raymond to his mother, and she advises him to overcome his inner anger and forgive Raymond. After visiting his wife and son, he tells them in four words how much he loves them and finally drives to his father's grave. This is where he uses his last three words to tell him that he will forgive him. Then he faints, but can go on living because the tree has grown new leaves and even flowers.

He writes a book about his experiences called "A Thousand Words", which he lets his assistant sell, who has taken over his job as a literary agent. He also bought the house his wife wanted for himself and his family and even had the tree moved to his garden.

background

production

The film was shot in 2008, but didn't hit cinemas around the world until 2012. The scenes in Jack's house were filmed in Bel Air . Other parts of Los Angeles were also used as a film location.

publication

The film opened in US cinemas on March 9, 2012, and was released in Germany on June 21, 2012. In some countries the film only made it to direct-to-DVD release. In cinemas, it grossed only $ 20.5 million worldwide on a production budget of $ 40 million.

Reviews

The film received only negative reviews and received a rating of 0% on the Rotten Tomatoes review page after counting a total of 54 reviews and thus holds a negative record.

“Stupid comedy whose plot forces comedian Eddie Murphy into a pantomime role that he's not up to. The crude esotericism and the breaks in the narrative logic are particularly annoying. "

- Lexicon of international film

“The purification of the Schnatterer may be accepted as inevitable, but the way there could be made fun. Robbins and Murphy manage to remain so uninspired silly that after half an hour you would like to step on the screen with the leaf blower and speed things up. "

- Stuttgart newspaper

“Well, Murphy is pulling level with Jim Carrey when it comes to grimacing. It's nice to look at when he makes phone calls with the help of talking pawns. But in the long run it seems tough, as if screenwriter Steve Koren and director Brian Robbins ('Smallville') had to work their way from gag to gag. At times the film seems to have a serious approach, but uses the mallet method to bring the saying 'talking is silver, silence is gold' closer to the audience. Then again, 'A Thousand Words' tries to be weird. Ultimately, neither of the two ideas works. "

- West German newspaper

synchronization

Interopa Film produced the dubbing , while Jan Odle wrote the dialogue book and was responsible for the dialogue direction.

role	actor	Voice actor
Jack McCall	Eddie Murphy	Dennis Schmidt-Foss
Caroline McCall	Kerry Washington	Vera Teltz
Aaron Wiseberger	Clark Duke	Hannes Maurer
Dr. Sinja	Cliff Curtis	Jan Odle
Samantha Davis	Allison Janney	Karin Buchholz
Annie McCall	Ruby Dee	Gisela Fritsch