The Spectacular Now

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Movie
German title The Spectacular Now
Original title The Spectacular Now
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2013
length 95 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director James Ponsoldt
script Scott Neustadter ,
Michael H. Weber
production Tom McNulty ,
Shawn Levy ,
Andrew Lauren ,
Michelle Krumm
music Rob Simonsen
camera Jess Hall
cut Darrin Navarro
occupation

The Spectacular Now (Original title: The Spectacular Now ) is an American drama from 2013 , which is based on the novel of the same name by Tim Tharp . Directed by James Ponsoldt , the script was written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber . Miles Teller and Shailene Woodley can be seen in the leading roles .

action

Sutter Keely is a charming and popular boy at his school. Since he drinks alcohol regularly and is drunk again and again, his girlfriend Cassidy leaves him. After a night of partying, Sutter is woken up in a strange front yard by the shy and inconspicuous Aimee, who is delivering the newspaper. Since Sutter has no idea where his car is, he drives with Aimee and helps her distribute the newspapers.

The two arrange to have dinner and talk. Sutter asks Aimee to help him with his geometry homework. He visits Aimee and invites her to a party by the lake. At the party, Sutter meets Cassidy, can also talk to her briefly, but is quickly abandoned by her.

Aimee says she got an acceptance from college in Philadelphia, but her mother is against her going. Sutter tries to convince Aimee that Aimee should prevail against her mother. Since Aimee thinks boys won't turn around to look at her, Sutter kisses her spontaneously.

When Sutter is invited to dinner with his sister, he spontaneously asks Aimee to accompany him. After dinner, the two get closer and closer, kiss and are from now on a couple. The two go to prom together.

Aimee succeeds in asserting herself against her mother and accepting the promise from the college in Philadelphia. Sutter basically doesn't know his father and his mother doesn't want to tell him where he is. Aimee encourages him to find out more about his father. He eventually gets his father's phone number from his older sister Holly. After a phone call, he and Aimee go to see his father. Although the visit has been arranged with his father, he looks surprised when Sutter is at the door.

Until now, Sutter always assumed that his mother had kicked his father out of the door. However, this tells him that he left on his own. Now the father pretends to only take a friend home briefly and then meet up with Sutter again. However, he does not come back and Sutter is very disappointed.

On the way back, Sutter and Aimee argue in the car, which almost leads to an accident. Sutter thinks he's bad for Aimee and throws her out of the car. Just as Aimee got out, another car hit her. Except for a broken arm, Aimee has no other injuries.

Sutter is afraid of growing up, he doesn't care about the time after high school, his academic performance is getting worse and worse. Still, he graduated. He also works as a salesman for a men's outfitter. Because business is no longer going so well, his boss Dan has to fire one of the salespeople. Since Sutter is popular with customers, he should stay. However, Dan asks him never to return to work drunk. Because Sutter cannot promise him this, he loses his job.

When Aimee drives to Philadelphia, her Sutter goes out of her way so as not to have to say goodbye to her. Sutter drowns in the mailbox and there is an argument between Sutter and his mother. Sutter then writes an application for college and drives to Aimee.

Production and publication

The film is based on the original novel of the same name by Tim Tharp . It was filmed between July 23 and August 25, 2012 in Athens , Georgia, USA .

The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013 and subsequently screened at a number of film festivals. The film was shown in US cinemas from September 13, 2013. In Germany it was released directly on DVD and Blu-ray on March 20, 2015.

reception

The film service describes The Spectacular Now as a "remarkable teenage film" that takes its young protagonists and their everyday challenges "seriously" and outlines them "believably". Nonetheless, "the film is clearly oriented towards the conventions of a teenage romance in order to reach its target group", but seems "sometimes constructed".

The film has been nominated for more than 30 awards and has received 10 awards. Among other things, it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature Film at the Sundance Film Festival and was named one of the top ten independent films of the year by the National Board of Review . The two screenwriters were nominated for Best Screenplay at the Independent Spirit Awards and Shailene Woodley was nominated for Best Actress . Woodley and Miles Teller also received the Special Jury Award for Best Actor at the Sundance Film Festival.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release to The Spectacular Now - Perfect Is Now . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2015 (PDF; test number: 149 975 V).
  2. ↑ New movie preps to shoot in Athens. In: onlineathens.com. Retrieved August 23, 2017 .
  3. ↑ The Spectacular Now - Short Review . In: Filmdienst.de . Retrieved August 24, 2017.
  4. ^ The Spectacular Now Awards . In: IMDb.com . Retrieved August 24, 2017.