On your shoulder

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Movie
German title On your shoulder
Original title The Upside of Anger
Country of production USA , UK , Germany
original language English
Publishing year 2005
length 121 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
JMK 12
Rod
Director Mike Binder
script Mike Binder
production Jack Binder ,
Alex Gartner ,
Sammy Lee
music Alexandre Desplat
camera Richard Greatrex
cut Steve Edwards ,
Robin Sales
occupation

On your shoulder (original title: The Upside of Anger ) is an American - British - German drama from 2005. Directed by Mike Binder , who also wrote the screenplay and took on one of the roles.

action

The film begins with a funeral scene with Denny Davies standing next to Terry Ann Wolfmeyer. The voiceover, Terry's daughter Lavender, says Terry hasn't always been bitter. She was a nice woman who was loved.

Events three years earlier are shown in a flashback . Terry has breakfast with her daughters Lavender, Andy, Emily and Hadley, whom she tells her husband has abandoned her. The family, upper middle class, lives in a quiet residential area with large properties. The neighbor, a friend of her husband, the former baseball player and radio chatterbox Denny Davies, visits Terry because he needs the neighborly consent of her husband for structural changes. Terry tries in vain to get rid of Denny and he learns of the couple's separation and that the husband has disappeared without a trace. Denny and Terry spend the rest of the day drinking copiously and watching TV together.

Over the next few months, Denny first becomes a family friend, and a love affair slowly develops between him and Terry. Terry tries to get the situation of suddenly being alone with four teenage daughters under control - with varying degrees of success

Terry's eldest daughter, Hadley, a college student, is about to graduate pregnant and marries her fellow student. Andy, the second oldest, gets a job at Denny's radio station through Denny's mediation, but initially only because the producer is after her. Lavender, called Popeye, the youngest, goes to private school where she falls in love with a silent boy. When the girl tries to concretize the shy childhood love, the boy rejects her by opening up that he is homosexual. Lavender suggests giving a girl a try, her.

Terry makes a bad impression on her daughter's future in-laws, whom she provokes by drinking excessively the first time they eat together. Emily, the second youngest, wants to study classical dance, which her mother disagrees with - the sensitive girl feels unloved and misunderstood and becomes seriously ill.

Terry, who was in danger of becoming an alcoholic, is slowly stabilizing and can be there for her daughters again. At Hadley's wedding party she meets Andy's friend, the producer of the radio station, whom she considers to be far too old and inappropriate, shows him her contempt for his mesalliance with a twenty-year-old boy and slaps him in the face. Andy then separates from him on his own terms, even if he even attests to her professional talent.

Terry, who wants to see her daughters well looked after, sells the overgrown property behind her house. Over time, after various difficulties, everyone gets used to the situation. Denny stays with the family and fills the empty space that Terry's husband left behind. At Emily's dance debut, the new blended family finally sits pacified in the audience.

The body of Terry's husband, Gray, is found three years later on the property, which became a construction site after the sale. The man had not left Terry without comment, he had fallen into a poorly covered old well and died there.

Terry cries heartbroken when she learns that she falsely insinuated that she and the family had left her husband. The film ends with the funeral scene.

Reviews

The lexicon of international films wrote that the film was "a multi-faceted, tragicomic family drama with a brilliant leading actress".

Awards

The film won two special awards from the National Board of Review in 2005 . Kevin Costner and Joan Allen were nominated for the Satellite Award in 2005, and a year later both received nominations for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award . Joan Allen was nominated for the Washington DC Area Film Critics Association Award in 2005 and won the San Diego Film Critics Society Award ; In 2006 she was nominated for the Online Film Critics Society Award and won the Chicago Film Critics Association Award ; In 2007 she was nominated for the London Critics Circle Film Award . Kevin Costner won the 2005 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award .

backgrounds

The film was shot in London and in a few other locations in England and Michigan . Its production amounted to an estimated 9 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on January 23, 2005 at the Sundance Film Festival . The film grossed approximately $ 18.76 million in US cinemas.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Certificate of Release for On Your Shoulder . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , June 2005 (PDF; test number: 102 822 K).
  2. ↑ Age rating for On your shoulder . Youth Media Commission .
  3. ↑ On your shoulder in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed April 1, 2008
  4. ↑ Filming locations for The Upside of Anger , accessed April 1, 2008
  5. ^ Opening dates for The Upside of Anger , accessed April 1, 2008