Outsourced - a detour to happiness
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Outsourced - a detour to happiness |
| Original title | Outsourced |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 103 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Jeffcoat |
| script |
George Wing John Jeffcoat |
| production | Tom Gorai |
| music | BC Smith |
| camera | Teodoro Maniaci |
| cut | Brian Berden |
| occupation | |
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Outsourced is a 2006 American romantic comedy.
action
Todd Anderson runs a call center in Seattle . The company sells various American patriotic kitsch products . His boss Dave tells him that the call center should be outsourced to India for cost reasons . Todd is supposed to train the Indian employees and bring them up to an American level of performance. Todd flies to Mumbai and plunges into a strange and chaotic world. His closest colleague is Puro, who has already set up the call center in the small town of Gharapuri. The Indian employees complete their telephone sales calls in an average of 12 minutes. Todd is supposed to take them to an average of 6 minutes. First, Todd tries to bring the American culture and mentality closer to the Indians. The Indians should appear on the phone as Americans, as Americans are reluctant to order patriotic articles from abroad. This venture fails.
Only the pretty Asha seems talented enough to meet Todd's expectations. She manages to convince him that he must first understand the Indian mentality and culture . The two spend a night together on a business trip. But the couple has little prospect of the future, as Asha has been promised as a wife since she was four. Still, they try to spend as much time together as possible. Together they finally manage to reduce the work level to the required 6 minutes. One day, however, Dave from Seattle appears. He is delighted with Todd's performance, but tells him that the call center will be relocated to China because of the cheaper wages . Todd is supposed to go to Shanghai to achieve a similar increase in performance there. However, he refuses to accept the position. Instead, Puro gets the job in China while Todd returns to Seattle. The film ends when he receives a call from Asha in his old apartment.
Reviews
"The film dissolves the thoroughly critical view of exploitation and globalization in a romantic" Bildungsroman "in which the protagonist learns to open up to another culture."
The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating particularly valuable.
Others
- In 2010, a series implementation of the film, which was canceled again in 2011 , started on the American television station NBC .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Outsourced - A detour to happiness. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed April 18, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/serien/8193.html
Web links
- Outsourced - a roundabout way to happiness in the Internet Movie Database (English)