As long as you are there (2005)

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Movie
German title Just Like Heaven
Original title Just Like Heaven
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 91 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
JMK 0
Rod
Director Mark Waters
script Leslie Dixon
Peter Tolan
production Laurie MacDonald
Walter F. Parkes
music Rolfe Kent
camera Daryn Okada
cut Bruce Green

As long as you are there (Original title: Just Like Heaven ) is an American comedy film from 2005. The director was Mark Waters , the screenplay was written by Leslie Dixon and Peter Tolan based on the novel Et si c'était vrai… by Marc Levy from 2000. Reese Witherspoon and Mark Ruffalo played the leading roles .

action

Elizabeth Masterson is a single, successful and dedicated hospital doctor. Her sister Abby's ex-boyfriend, Jack Houriskey, sets up a date with a friend. Elizabeth rushes to meet after work, gets into a car accident and falls into a coma .

Two months later, the widowed landscape architect David Abbott moves into her apartment - an old building in the heart of San Francisco with a view and a roof terrace. One day the ghost of Elizabeth appears to him, the only one he can see. Both get into a heated argument about who is legally living in the apartment. Since nobody wants to give in, they try to drive each other out of the apartment. It is only when she sees that she is standing in the middle of a table that Elizabeth realizes that she is a ghost.

A spiritualist encourages both to seek the real cause of their problems. This is how they begin to be interested in one another and to help one another. David helps Elizabeth find out who she is and why she lives on as a ghost, and they fall in love. One day they learn that Elizabeth is about to end life support. David tries to persuade Abby to refuse consent, but it turns out that she has already signed the necessary paperwork. He then tells her that he can see Elizabeth and that she is currently in the same room, but Abby thinks he is mentally confused and chases him out of the house.

David and his friend Jack try to save Elizabeth by abducting her body and medical equipment. Jack discovers that Elizabeth is the woman he wanted to couple with David three months earlier. When the two of them are at the elevators with Elizabeth, one of the security guards rips Elizabeth's ventilator apart. David tears himself away from the security people - who grabbed him beforehand - and gives Elizabeth a kiss. Her mind slowly disappears, and when everyone has given up on her, she wakes up again. However, she can neither remember David nor any of the experiences she had as a ghost during the coma. David leaves the hospital sad.

She moves back into her apartment and goes up to the roof. There David is waiting in the middle of a splendid garden that he has newly created, as she had once seen him in a dream. When their hands touch, everything comes back to her. The two embrace and kiss.

Reviews

The film service wrote that the film was a “light-footed romantic comedy” that touched “without being sentimental”. He succeeds in the "balancing act between lightness and seriousness". The film advocates “on a sociopolitical level” “for device medicine and life-sustaining measures”. Carsten Happe compared Reese Witherspoon to Meg Ryan : “The blonde sweetheart next door in the women's film of the week.” And so the film is “buttery smooth and streamlined to the conventions of the genre”, the “handful of dramatic undertones are just as artificial as the hopelessly kitschy ending , but at least once in full swing, while it simmered beforehand. "

synchronization

role English speaker German speaker
Elizabeth Masterson Reese Witherspoon Manja Doering
David Abbott Mark Ruffalo David Nathan
Jack Houriskey Donal Logue Michael Iwannek
Abby Brody Dina Spybey Alexandra Wilcke
Brett Rushton Ben Shenkman Peter Flechtner
Darryl Jon Heder Tommy Morgenstern
Katrina Ivana Miličević Claudia Urbschat-Mingues
Fran Rosalind Chao Ulrike Möckel
Bill William Caploe Gunnar Helm
Tom Brody Chris Pflueger Oliver Neuss
Zoe Brody Kerris Dorsey Johanna Hintze
Lily Brody Alyssa Shafer Marie Hintze
Dr. Walsh Ron Canada Jürgen Kluckert
Grace Caroline Aaron Astrid Bless
Sister jenny Shulie Cowen Sabine Winterfeldt
Sister Maria Gabrielle Made Victoria Storm
Dr. Willis Doug Kritzner Werner Ziebig
Ivan Lee Burns Andreas Mueller
Karen Catherine Taber Angela Ringer
Mr. Clarke Billy Beck Werner Ehrlicher
Head waiter Willie Garson Gerald Schaale
woman NN Nina Herting

Awards

The film received a Teen Choice Award for Best Chick Flick ( women's film ) in 2006 . Jon Heder was nominated for the same award.

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

backgrounds

Production costs amounted to about 58 million US dollars . The film was financially successful in the USA, but was considered controversial because of the subject matter. In Germany, more than 600,000 viewers saw him in cinemas.

The theme song Just Like Heaven , originally from the British band The Cure , was sung by the Georgian- British singer Katie Melua , who released the song in 2005 on her second album Piece by Piece .

Differences from the book

The film is significantly shortened compared to the book. The kidnapping of the coma Elizabeth (in the book Lauren Kline) succeeds in the book, Arthur brings Lauren to the country house where he grew up with his mother. Another element of tension is created there by a police inspector who tracks down Arthur's crime. When Lauren finally wakes up, she has no recollection of this "spiritual love story" and is not miraculously recovering it.

While the film is tailored and conceived for a female audience and thus tells from their perspective, the book focuses on Arthur's character. Levy said he had written the book for his son Louis as an example of a man who “falls in love with the contents of a person and not with his packaging”.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for as long as you are there . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2005 (PDF; test number: 104 009 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for as long as you are there . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ As long as you are there , on filmdienst.de, accessed on October 3, 2008
  4. ↑ From the script software, by Carsten Happe on schnitt.de, accessed on October 3, 2008
  5. ↑ As long as you are there in the German dubbing index
  6. ↑ As long as you are there on fbw-filmbvalu.com
  7. ↑ As long as you are there on boxofficemojo.com