Again like last night

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Movie
German title Again like last night
Original title About Last Night ...
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1986
length 109 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Edward Zwick
script Denise DeClue ,
Tim Kazurinsky
production Jason Brett ,
Stuart Oken ,
Arnold Stiefel
music Miles Goodman
camera Andrew inkwell
cut Harry Keramidas
occupation

Like Last Night ( About Last Night ... ) is an American comedy film directed by Edward Zwick from 1986 . The script was written by Denise DeClue and Tim Kazurinsky based on the play Sexual Perversity in Chicago by David Mamet .

action

Debbie works for a Chicago advertising company. She has an affair with her boss, Steve Carlson. One day, Debbie meets Danny Martin in a park, who prefers to spend his free time in the company of his friend Bernie Litgo. Danny is interested in Debbie. The two spend a night together, then they meet again and become a couple. They eventually move in together, which Debbie's roommate and friend Joan finds a disappointment.

Debbie sees Danny one day, dejected after being forced by his boss to cancel an old customer's supplier credit. She wants to be more part of his life, but Danny doesn't open up to her. Conflicts often arise, for example about keeping Debbie's belongings in the apartment. The couple's friends don't believe the relationship will last long.

Debbie infuriates Danny when he has problems at work and she offers him financial help. The couple split up for a time and then reconciled.

Reviews

Meinolf Zurhorst wrote in his book Demi Moore. Lady and Vamp , the love scenes in the film would be “amazingly intense”. Demi Moore acts "more freely" than in the scandalous film Striptease .

The lexicon of international film stated that the “conventional staging” diluted the “content-wise accurate observations on the identity crisis and role behavior”.

Awards

Miles Goodman received the Broadcast Music Incorporated Film Music Award in 1987 .

background

The change of the film title from the play was due to the refusal of many newspapers to promote a film with the original title. The author of the play, David Mamet, distanced himself from the film adaptation.

The film was shot in Chicago and Hollywood . It grossed approximately $ 38.7 million in US cinemas .

An English teacher in the United States was fired after showing About Last Night… in the classroom of 16- and 17-year-old students. The teacher's lawsuit failed in the district court, which described the film as “ containing 'a great deal of vulgarity' including 'swear words' ” and quoted extensively from the dialogues about the frequent use of the words “ fuckin ', fucking , and fuck ”(See Fuck ) to demonstrate. The school's concern that “ the film with its frequent vulgarity was inappropriate for high school students ” is justified. On the other hand, the teacher could not rely on the 1st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States . In 2014, the US remake About Last Night was released , in which African Americans play the leading roles.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Meinolf Zurhorst : Demi Moore. Lady and Vamp , p. 17.
  2. ↑ Again like last night. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Filming locations for About Last Night ... (imdb).
  4. ↑ Box office / business for About Last Night ... (imdb).
  5. ↑ a b c d Christopher M. Fairman: Fuck . Ohio State University, 2006 ( Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy Studies Working Paper No. 39 ).