The Cooler - Everything for love

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Movie
German title The Cooler - Everything for love
Original title The cooler
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2003
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Wayne Kramer
script Frank Hannah
Wayne Kramer
production Sean Furst
Michael A. Pierce
music Mark Isham
camera James Whitaker
cut Arthur Coburn
occupation

The Cooler - Alles auf Love ( The Cooler ) is an American movie by Wayne Kramer from the year 2003 . The tragicomic gangster fable takes place in the glittering world of Las Vegas .

action

Bernie Lootz is unlucky. Everything he touches goes wrong. But since his presence also brings bad luck to the people around him, Shelly Kaplow, an old friend, hired him at a mafia-controlled casino - the Shangri La - to pay off his high gambling debts. There are only a few days left until he is even with Shelly and can go. Bernie is already counting the days and is looking forward to a new beginning; he wants to leave town.

Shelly Kaplow is an old school advocate. Mafioso Nicky Fingers Bonnatto and his young "marketing specialist" Larry Sokolov have a different opinion and want to modernize everything. Since Shelly's business is extremely profitable thanks to Bernie, he enjoys a certain tolerance on the part of the mafia.

Lootz falls in love with the attractive waitress Natalie Belisario, who also works at the Shangri La. To keep Bernie in love with Las Vegas, Shelly pays her to have a relationship with Bernie Lootz. He, who knows nothing about the initial background of his love affair, tells her that his kneecap was smashed because of Shelly's gambling debts. He is even grateful to him for it because it ended his gambling addiction.

Against Shelly and Natalie's plans, she actually falls in love with Bernie, and when she confesses her love to him, Bernie and the people around him suddenly have luck instead of unhappiness. Shelly Kaplow, appalled by the sudden drop in profits caused by the lucky streaks of the casino guests, then tries to separate the two again.

To make matters worse, Bernie's son Mikey shows up with his heavily pregnant girlfriend and asks his father for money. Bernie, whose relationship with his son had been on hold for a long time, reacted very generously after some hesitation. When Mikey later wins enormous sums of money by throwing the dice at the Shangri La , he and his girlfriend are confronted by Shelly. Bernie tries to mediate, but can't prevent Mikey from getting a heavy lesson that breaks some bones. It turns out that Mikey was playing with loaded dice and that his girlfriend was also faking pregnancy. Despite these disappointments, Bernie wants to answer for his son's debt to Shelly.

After Shelly has visited Natalie and brutally beaten him up, Bernie uses his luck to win US $ 150,000 at the Shangri La and then leave the city with Natalie. In the meantime, Shelly has found himself in difficulty explaining to his backers about the many losses of money and sets a contract killer on Bernie and Natalie. But this action cannot prevent his own death: he himself is killed by Bonnatto. Meanwhile, Bernie and Natalie's car is stopped in the Nevada desert by an alleged police officer who asks both of them to get out. After the couple has obeyed the request, the latter draws a pistol: Both should kneel down because he will shoot them. Arm in arm, the two kneel on the side of the road and await death. But the sudden luck is on Bernie and Natalie again: Just at the moment when the "policeman" wants to pull the trigger, a car driven by a drunk races past and the hit man is run over.

background

  • A “cooler” is a person who is supposed to bring bad luck to the players by their presence at the gaming table.
  • "Little Joe" (or "Hard 4") in the craps craps game is a throw with two eyes (2-2).
  • A feature film with the name "Lost Horizon" is mentioned (also in the German dubbing). The German title of the film is In den Fesseln von Shangri-La .
  • The scene in which a slot machine is named Marnie refers to the main character in Alfred Hitchcock 's film of the same name .
  • In order to illustrate Bernie Lootz's changes from unlucky to lucky charm also in his appearance, William H. Macy received three suits in different sizes for the filming: One two sizes too big for the scenes in which he is unlucky. A size too big, in which his fate begins to change, and a suit in the right size for his happiness phase.
  • At the beginning of the credits, four casinos are shown that are being demolished by targeted blasts. These are the Aladdin , the Landmark , the Sands , and the Dunes .
  • The film was in Las Vegas and Reno ( Nevada turned). It grossed approximately $ 8.2 million in US cinemas .

Reviews

Kevin Thomas wrote in the Los Angeles Times on November 26, 2003 that William H. Macy was the " perfect " cast of Bernie Lootz. The film shows Las Vegas in a " stereotypical " and " clichéd " way. The backdrops designed by Toby Corbett would look " strikingly old-fashioned ".

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was tailored to the main actor. The first part is " extremely entertaining ". The bonds with the Mafia films would “ unnecessarily inflate ” the film , which would make it “ persuasive ” suffer.

Awards

  • At the 2004 Academy Awards , Alec Baldwin was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
  • Alec Baldwin was nominated for Best Supporting Actor and Maria Bello for Best Supporting Actress at the 2004 Golden Globe Awards .
  • Director Wayne Kramer was nominated in 2003 for the Grand Jury Prize of the Sundance Film Festival , for the Crystal Globe of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival , for a prize at the Deauville Film Festival and for the Golden Ear of the Semana Internacional de Cine de Valladolid .
  • Maria Bello won a Golden Satellite Award in 2004 . William H. Macy, Alec Baldwin and the screenwriters were nominated for the same award.
  • Maria Bello and Alec Baldwin were each nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2004.
  • Alec Baldwin won the National Board of Review Award in 2003 . He was nominated for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award in 2004 and won the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association Award and the Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award .
  • Alec Baldwin and Maria Bello were each nominated for an Online Film Critics Society Award in 2004.
  • The screenwriters were nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award in 2004.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Release certificate for The Cooler - Alles auf Liebe . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2004 (PDF; test number: 97 039 K).
  2. Filming locations for The Cooler . IMDb. Retrieved March 6, 2009.
  3. Budget and box office earnings for The Cooler . IMDb. Retrieved March 36, 2009.
  4. Kevin Thomas: 'The Coolor' . Los Angeles Times. November 26, 2003. Retrieved March 6, 2009.
  5. The Cooler - All for love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used