Sleepless in New York
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| German title | Sleepless in New York |
| Original title | The out-of-towners |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 90 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
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| Director | Sam Weisman |
| script | Marc Lawrence based on the original screenplay by Neil Simon |
| production | Robert Evans , Teri Schwartz , David Madden , Philip E. Thomas |
| music | Marc Shaiman , Alyson Palmer |
| camera | John Bailey |
| cut | Kent Beyda |
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Sleepless in New York is a 1999 American comedy film . The film is a remake of the 1970 film Never Again New York, starring Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis .
action
After their son Alan traveled to Europe, Henry and his wife Nancy married without any change. Henry has lost his job as a copywriter after over 20 years, but has not yet told his wife about it. He wants to travel to New York to apply for a new job. At short notice, Nancy also decides to travel to New York.
But the trip is not a lucky star. The flight of the two is diverted and the luggage is lost. Both now have to travel to New York by train, but get on the wrong train and are therefore forced to rent a car. In the car, the two have problems with the navigation program and eventually get lost. They don't reach New York until night. While walking, they are robbed by a man who pretends to be Andrew Lloyd Webber . After this experience they finally reach their hotel. There they meet the unfriendly hotel manager Mr. Mersault. He doesn't give them a room because the only credit card Henry still had is overdrawn. Nancy confesses to her husband that she gave her daughter a credit card. The daughter spent all of the money on a new interior. Henry is beside himself with anger and now wants to confront his daughter, who lives in New York. She is not home and Nancy gets into an argument with some of her neighbors. One of the neighbors sets his dog on Nancy and she has to flee. Henry, who was waiting for Nancy on the street, runs away with her. Both escape to a building where there is a large table with food. Without knowing it, they got into a self-help group for sex addicts and took part in the session. Nancy vented her anger in front of the group and complained about their poor love life. Henry is so shocked by the news that he dragged his wife out of the meeting.
Henry and Nancy finally get the message that their luggage has turned up and sent to their hotel. Henry remembers that there are travelers checks in their luggage, with which the two can get money back. At the hotel, however, Mr. Mersault is unaware of any luggage that has arrived, and the two are turned away again. Nancy then takes the initiative and goes to the hotel bar. There she flirts with Greg, a hotel guest, and gets him to give her the key to his room. The first thing Nancy and Henry do in the room is order food. However, Greg suddenly comes by because he forgot something in his room. Nancy can get rid of him quickly. When Greg is about to leave the hotel, he sees a trolley full of food and finds out that it is about to be delivered to his room. Since he immediately calls security, Henry and Nancy have to climb down the facade of the hotel. Nancy first lands on the balcony a few floors down. To her surprise, Mr. Mersault is in the room. He wears the fur coat and shoes of a female guest and dances across the room. A power outage caused by Henry forced him to resume his duties as a hotel manager. After he leaves, Henry and Nancy escape the hotel in a taxi. This taxi is currently being used for a robbery and the two are briefly held hostage. You can save yourself by throwing yourself out of the moving car.
The two walk through Central Park in the dead of night and remember their youth. This arouses romantic feelings in both of them. They want to indulge their feelings, but suddenly the park is lit by hundreds of spotlights, and an evening party, which also includes the New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani , is watching them. They flee and spend the night in the park. The next morning, Henry is arrested for causing public nuisance. Nancy tries to get him out of jail. For this she blackmailed Mr. Mersault and threatened to divulge his secret. Meanwhile, Henry had a terrible headache and he was given a pill by an inmate. Believing it was a headache pill, he swallows it. Mr. Mersault has shown up in the meantime and wants to take them to the hotel. But Henry suddenly starts talking and escapes from the car. His reaction is due to the supposed headache pill, which was a drug. After Nancy "caught" him again, they go to the hotel to get Henry ready for his interview.
Henry was able to convince the employees of the advertising company of his talent and received the job. Nancy, who is about to leave, can just be stopped by Henry. He tells her that he can put his own team together and that he wants Nancy, who used to work in advertising, with him. Both eventually move to New York, to the displeasure of Mr. Mersault.
Reviews
“... an elegant, purring screwball comedy that is classically, one could also say: old-fashionedly staged and provides the greatest pleasure. The film gets by without the starkness and shrill nonsense of contemporary teen comedies, it turns the old-fashioned into quality - it's cool. "
"" Sleepless in New York "[...] has undoubtedly become the most old-fashioned Hollywood comedy of the year. One of those films to which you can safely take your grandma with you. [...] Martin and Hawn are lovably choleric, and John Cleese, who as a sarcastic hotel manager only slightly modifies his role from the cult series "Fawlty Towers", is, as always, in a comedy class of its own. You can also tolerate a few hangs or the fluffy end. And grandma is happy to have come out of the house again. "
"Fast-paced comedy that owes its entertainment value exclusively to the acting of the actors, who even make the film's conservative attitude temporarily forgotten."
Web links
- Towners in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Towners at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sleepless in New York on cinema.de
- ^ Insomniac in New York. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .