Stretch (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Stretch |
| Original title | Stretch |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2014 |
| length | 94 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joe Carnahan |
| script | Joe Carnahan |
| production |
Jason Blum Joe Carnahan Tracy Falco |
| music | Ludwig Göransson |
| camera | Yasu Tanida |
| cut |
Kevin Hale Jason Hellmann |
| occupation | |
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Stretch is an action - comedy from the year 2014 through the experiences of a limousine driver. Directed by Joe Carnahan. The film produced for the cinema was only released on DVD and video-on-demand due to a lack of marketing will and capital .
action
The unsuccessful actor Stretch is stranded in Los Angeles and is gambling his way through life. To old gambling debts to pay off, he worked as a limousine - Chauffeur . He 's looking for a replacement for his great love and ex-girlfriend Candace via a dating app .
Suddenly, the rest of his $ 6,000 gambling debt falls due within 24 hours, leaving Stretch in an uncomfortable position. In order to raise the necessary money within the required time, he accepts an unusual assignment from Charlie, the attractive employee in the chauffeur service office: his mysterious and eccentric customer is the millionaire Roger Karos, who solves his money problem with a generous "tip “Promises. In return, Stretch accepts many unusual requests from its apparently crazy passenger. So he has to take him to a dissolute secret party and is supposed to pick up a suitcase full of money from a French gangster in a given short period of time and bring it to him. In return, the gangster will ask for certain documents to be picked up. Stretch does not have this, which means that he pretends to be a high-ranking police officer with a false police badge (a film prop that the previous passenger and actor Ray Liotta left behind in his car next to a (blank) pistol). He threatens anger on the part of his authority and is given the suitcase. However, the gangster is himself a police officer from the FBI and was in an undercover operation to arrest Karos. So he and his people pursue Stretch unobserved. Meanwhile, on the way to his client, he has to deal with the competition and stressful customers who have since entered the market. He also meets Candace by chance, and in order to avenge the pain of his loss, he successfully plays the “great, important man” he is now supposed to be. Stretch is cheated of his promised tip by Karos. His debt collectors also get hold of him and the film ends in a furious orgy of arrests.
Events show that Stretch has the talent to be a good actor, which the FBI agent confirms to him. At dawn, Stretch staggers dirty and exhausted into a breakfast bar. There he meets the unknown woman who contacted him via dating app during the night. To his pleasant surprise, she turns out to be his colleague Charlie.
background
The film was produced by Jason Blum's Blumhouse Productions IM Global. It was awarded by Universal Studios . Production started in July 2013.
Despite investing $ 5 million in production and a top-class cast, the film did not come to theaters. Universal was apparently not ready to invest any further in marketing. It was released in the US on October 7, 2014 on iTunes and Amazon , and a week later as a video-on-demand release. It was released in Germany on May 28, 2015 on DVD and Blu-Ray .
The name stretch is part of the name for a structurally elongated luxury limousine, see stretch limousine .
David Hasselhoff , Ray Liotta and Norman Reedus appear in cameo roles .
Reviews
The film received 82% positive reviews from critics on Rotten Tomatoes and was positively rated by 64% of the audience.
“Patrick Wilson just fits into the role of the suffering almost actor who actually cannot really afford a life with his limo driver job. He brings the desperation, the insane, the suffering but also the high feelings across so real that one takes it from him every second. "
"... and while Stretch is a little rough around the edges it's also endearing, often exciting and packed with laughs."
Web links
- Stretch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Stretch at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Universal cancels Joe Carnahan's "Stretch" with Patrick Wilson and Chris Pine two months before it hits theaters. (No longer available online.) In: Kinozeit.de. Swain, Kurz and Spiegel GbR, January 23, 2014, archived from the original on May 24, 2015 ; accessed on May 24, 2015 (German). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/stretch_2014/
- ↑ Did Satan have a party back there? , filmempfoice.com from May 18, 2015
- ^ A Sweet, Perverted and Exciting Adventure Film , filmschoolrejects.com, October 8, 2015
