What doesn't kill you

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Movie
German title What Doesn't Kill You
(DVD: Boston Streets)
Original title What doesn't kill you
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2008
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Brian Goodman
script Brian Goodman ,
Paul T. Murray ,
Donnie Wahlberg
production Marc Frydman ,
Rod Lurie ,
Bob Yari
music Alex Wurman
camera Chris Norr
cut Robert Hoffman
occupation

What Does not Kill You is an American film drama from the year 2008 . Directed by Brian Goodman , who co- wrote the script with Paul T. Murray and Donnie Wahlberg .

action

The petty criminals Brian and Paulie have been friends since childhood. You grow up in a neighborhood in the south of Boston , which is mostly inhabited by Irish Catholics. You work for a gangster, which worries Brian's wife, Stacy. The policeman Moran suspects the friends and investigates them. Brian and Paulie are arrested and while in jail they consider stopping the crimes. In the absence of an alternative, Brain and Paulie go about their usual money-making after their release.

An old acquaintance and dropout named Sully, whom Brian met by chance in a support group while in custody, motivates Brian to get off drugs and leave his criminal career behind. In order not to endanger his family life, Brian actually decides to have a regular job at the port, because after all he is a father of two. So Paulie has to pull off his next coup alone and finally receives 50 years imprisonment for this robbery.

Reviews

The organizers of the Toronto International Film Festival wrote that the film was a personal project of Goodman, who processed his own experiences. What Doesn't Kill You is a character study that not only shows the main characters, but also their surroundings.

backgrounds

Brian Goodman said in an interview for The Hollywood Reporter that he considered his leading characters to be two of the few actors he could imagine in films made 35 years earlier - when "men were men" .

The film was shot in Boston from November 2007. The working title of the project was Real Men Cry (Eng. True Men Cry ). The world premiere took place on September 10, 2008 at the Toronto International Film Festival . The launch in selected cinemas in the United States was scheduled for April 24, 2009.

Director and screenwriter Brian Goodman based the plot of the drama on his own life story.

music

For the soundtrack, the song Funktastic Galactical Rock , written by Jerry Williams and sung by Swamp Dogg, was used.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b tiff08.ca ( Memento from January 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on September 4, 2008
  2. ↑ Quotation from www.filmwad.com (English), accessed on September 4, 2008
  3. ↑ Filming location for What Doesn't Kill You , accessed September 4, 2008
  4. ^ A b Release dates for What Doesn't Kill You , accessed September 4, 2008
  5. ↑ Real Men Cry in The Boston Globe, November 27, 2007, accessed September 4, 2008
  6. ↑ a b http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1133991/ (English)