Pocket money (1994)

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Movie
German title pocket money
Original title Milk Money
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1994
length 104 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Richard Benjamin
script John Mattson
production Kathleen Kennedy ,
Frank Marshall
music Michael Convertino
camera David Watkin
cut Jacqueline Cambas
occupation

Pocket money (Original title: Milk Money ) is an American comedy film from 1994 . Directed by Richard Benjamin , the screenplay was written by John Mattson . Melanie Griffith and Ed Harris played the leading roles .

action

The student Frank Wheeler wants to see a naked woman for the first time in his life. He and his friends pool their savings and hire prostitute V. When she shows the three boys her breasts, Frank covers his eyes because he wants to be a gentleman. After that, the guys feel like real men. V later argues with her pimp Cash, who says she isn't human.

Since the boys' bikes were stolen, V brings them home in their pimp's car. The car broke down there. Frank's father, Tom Wheeler, is asked to fix it.

When V flees from her pimp, she runs into Frank by chance. This one hides them. Frank got the idea that V would be a good wife for his single father Tom, a widower. Later, Tom and V, whom he initially mistook for a teacher, get closer. V reveals to Tom that her real name is Eve. Tom discovers the cause of the car's malfunction - the money hidden in the car's tank that V's pimp stole from the gang bosses.

Waltzer suddenly appears - but this can be rendered harmless. V speaks to Jerry the Pope, the gangster chief. He allows her to get out of the prostitution business.

At the end of the film, Tom chains himself to his car on a piece of land with a valuable biotope in order to save the biotope from destruction. The police want to arrest him. V and a lawyer appear, V buys the property with the gangsters' money and transfers it to Tom. She says she wants to settle in the area and pursue a civic activity. V reminds Frank that he once asked which part of a woman's body you had to touch to make her really wild. To which she adds it is the heart.

background

The film was shot in Cincinnati , Lebanon, Ohio and Pittsburgh . It grossed approximately $ 18.1 million in US cinemas.

Reviews

James Berardinelli criticized on ReelViews , the film would mix the elements of a romantic comedy with those of a thriller and an action movie. He continued to criticize the portrayal of Melanie Griffith, who would play the comic roles well but the dramatic roles poorly. Berardinelli said the scenes with Malcolm McDowell should be cut out.

Roger Ebert derided the film in the Chicago Sun-Times of August 31, 1994 as the work of a committee of film producers. All of his criticism consists of a fictional discussion of the panel.

The film was criticized in the lexicon of international film as “lying” and “soulless”. Epd Film praised that Melanie Griffith would combine "hardness" and "vulnerability" in her portrayal.

Awards

John Mattson was nominated for the screenplay for the Golden Raspberry in 1995 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milk Money. In: reelviews.net. Retrieved May 9, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Milk Money. In: RogerEbert.com. August 31, 1994, accessed January 16, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Pocket money. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 16, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used