Ticket to Love
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Ticket to Love |
| Original title | Just the ticket |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1999 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Wenk |
| script | Richard Wenk |
| production | Andy García Gary Lucchesi |
| music | Rick Marotta |
| camera | Ellen Kuras |
| cut | Christopher Cibelli |
| occupation | |
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Ticket to Love (Original title: Just the Ticket ) is an American comedy film from 1999 . Directed by Richard Wenk , who also wrote the script. The main roles were played by Andy García and Andie MacDowell .
action
Gary Starke lives in New York City . He lives from the black market trade with tickets for various events. Former boxing athlete Benny Moran helps him with this. Gary's friend Linda Palinski wants to leave him and move to Paris.
A competing black market dealer wants Starke to work for him. For protection from the police, strong people should give up 70% of the proceeds. As an example of his possibilities, the man convinces a covertly operating police officer who arrests the strong man, to release him again. However, Starke refuses to cooperate.
When the Pope is supposed to visit New York City, the tickets reach high black market prices. Starke turns to one of his business partners to lend him money to be invested in the cards. The man says that Starke has already passed his prime . Instead, Starke borrows Moran's life savings. A little later, Moran dies of a heart attack.
Starke sells the tickets in the disguise of a nun. He hides the cards and the money he has earned in the hollowed out Bible. The competing black market dealer delivers him to the police. Starke is arrested, but drops the Bible while being arrested so the police have no evidence against him.
When the arrested strong man was sitting in a room in the stadium where the papal mass was to take place, the pope went through an adjoining room. The Pope turns and blesses Starke, who is later released.
It turns out that Moran took out a life insurance policy in which Starke is registered as a beneficiary. When Palinski drives to the airport, the taxi driver instead brings her near a restaurant that has Linda's sign above it. Gary is waiting for her there. He and Linda kiss.
Starke and Palinski open a restaurant together, in which she works as a cook and he as a head waiter. Gary sometimes sells tickets to his guests. Linda is amazed that she finds $ 200-300 more in the cash register every day than it should be.
Reviews
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews that the film was "not interesting". The plot "tires", the characters are "lifeless". The gags are "just not funny". Berardinelli criticized the representations of Andy Garcia and Andie MacDowell.
The Lexicon of International Films wrote: “An inconsistently staged comedy with some successful ideas, which in the long run, however, turns out to be too long. While the authentic shots of everyday New York life are convincing, interspersed religious motifs, such as some of the black marketer's confessions that were laid out during a confessional talk, are irritating. "
Awards
Andy Garcia was nominated for the ALMA Award in 2000.
backgrounds
Production costs were estimated at 12 million US dollars . The film was released in selected cinemas in the United States, where it grossed around 430,000 US dollars.
swell
- ↑ Film review by James Berardinelli
- ↑ Ticket to Love. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
Web links
- Ticket to Love in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Ticket to Love at Rotten Tomatoes (English)