Showtime (film)

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Movie
German title Show time
Original title Show time
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2002
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Tom Dey
script Alfred Gough , Miles Millar , Keith Sharon
production Jane Rosenthal , Jorge Saralegui
music Alan Silvestri
camera Thomas Kloss
cut Billy Weber
occupation

Showtime is an American satire published in 2002 by Tom Dey .

action

Mitch Preston is a LAPD police investigator . He gets into a shootout in which his partner is injured. When a reporter films Preston's injured partner with his camera, Preston goes nuts and shoots at the camera. The television producer Chase Renzi threatens with a lawsuit against the police if Preston does not participate in the series. Whereupon Preston is ordered by his superior to take part in the TV show, which is supposed to show the everyday life of police officers.

The talkative and unsuccessful police officer Trey Sellars has long been drawn to the film business. Renzi and a colleague are robbed. Renzi comes over and catches the thief. Preston arrives and puts handcuffs on the alleged thief whereupon he learns from the thief that Sellars has paid him. Nevertheless, Sellars is to become the new partner of Preston because of its fresh nature, which Preston initially defends against. Nevertheless, he has to consent to the cooperation.

However, there are some clashes between the new partners. Preston wants to continue doing serious police work, while Sellars is more interested in his portrayal on the series. Preston remains grumpy and reserved, while Sellars, who now calls himself Ice-Trey , mutates into the star of the series. In addition, Chase Renzi and her colleague intervene heavily in the police work and the private lives of the two police officers. For example, Renzi Preston's hitherto sparse apartment has been redecorated in the style of a Hollywood star and gets him a former police dog as a pet.

During the course of the film, the two involuntary partners track down a gangster who has a new type of firearm with which he is razing the apartment of a subordinate. The two policemen start an investigation. However, because they wreak enormous havoc in a car chase, the mayor ends the Showtime project and suspends the two police officers. Later, when Sellars and Preston are watching the last episode of Showtime at home, they suddenly discover a well-known police officer, a weapons specialist, near the criminal. They storm his apartment and learn that he had designed the gun for the gangster.

In the end there is a showdown at a hotel, where Preston and Sellars kill the leader who had taken Renzi hostage. The two policemen eventually become friends over all of this.

Reviews

Peter Travers wrote in Rolling Stone magazine on March 14, 2002 that Robert De Niro was "bored" and Eddie Murphy was "recycling" himself. A scene with the "classically self-important" William Shatner was praised.

The Lexicon of International Films wrote: “Parody as a star vehicle for Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro, exhausted in stereotypical situation comedy; even the action scenes look like second-hand merrymaking. "

The editorial team of Cinema said: “Although director Tom Dey (...) is not reinventing the comedy cop genre, the story, enriched with a dash of media criticism and a bit of 80s charm, is very predictable. But De Niro's Dirty Harry performance and Murphy's gun nose are just fun. And William Shatner as an acting coach is simply to roar. "

Awards

Eddie Murphy and Robert De Niro were nominated for the 2003 Golden Raspberry as worst screen couple. The film was nominated for the Taurus Award in 2003 .

The German Film and Media Assessment FBW in Wiesbaden awarded the film the rating "valuable".

background

The film was shot in Los Angeles . Its production amounted to an estimated 85 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 37.9 million in US cinemas.

In the film, Apple has very pronounced product placement . During the negotiation at the television station about the new reality documentary, an advertising film for the MacBook is running in the background ; later the two protagonists' new office is also equipped with Apple computers.

Others

  • William Shatner plays the role of former television cop, Sergeant TJ Hooker , from the television series of the same name, TJ Hooker , which he played himself.
  • James Roday and Joy Bryant had their first roles in a feature film.
  • Andrew Wilson and Larry Joe Campbell can be seen as cops in the locker room.
  • Johnnie Cochran plays himself and is an attorney for ReRun.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for Showtime . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ^ Review by Peter Travers
  3. ↑ Showtime. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Showtime on cinema.de
  5. ↑ Showtime on fbw-filmb Bewertung.com
  6. ↑ Filming locations for Showtime
  7. ↑ Business Data for Showtime