Traffic School - The sheet metal and roof damage company

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Movie
German title Traffic School - The sheet metal and roof damage company
Original title Moving Violations
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1985
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 6
Rod
Director Neal Israel
script Neal Israel
Pat Proft
production Harry J. Ufland
Joe Roth
music Ralph Burns
camera Robert Elswit
cut Tom Walls
occupation

Traffic School - The Tin and Roof Damage Company is an American comedy film from 1985 .

action

Patrolman Deputy Henry Halik has just been promoted in his Birch Country district . With his partner and lover, Deputy Virginia Morris, he goes to work and has to stop Dana Cannon and write several tickets for various offenses. Then he has to go to the accident of Joan Pudillo, the puppeteer Scott and the half-blind old woman Loretta Houk. Everyone loses their driver's license and is sentenced to driving school by judge Nedra Henderson. If they fail the course, their vehicles will be auctioned. Before that, Dana met Halik and Morris, who believed he was hanging around a car. Since they don't like him and the car is not parked, they smashed it with their batons. However, it was Halik's superior Chief Robert Fromm's private car that forcibly transferred him and Morris to the driving school. There they rule with discipline and daily tests and do not want to hear much of Dana's jokes. In the men's bathroom, Halik threatens him a little later and emphasizes that he is responsible for his unsuccessful promotion.

During the course, Dana meets the beautiful Amy Hopkins, whom he thinks is limited, but is still a rocket scientist at NASA . He spends more and more time with her, so that later she invites him to work, where they sleep together in a weightlessness chamber. Meanwhile, Halik spends less time with his girlfriend and gets closer to Judge Henderson, who suggests that he fail everyone on the course, sell the cars, and share the money. Halik agrees and from then on makes the course more difficult for everyone. He is also actively supported by the incompetence of most of them. Dana needs his car to make money. He breaks into the camp, notices that Henderson and Halik are having an affair, and steals his car. That, in turn, does not let Halik sit on him and steals him back, commits a robbery and blames Dana for this.

After Dana has been convicted, he and all of the course participants prepare for the upcoming final exam. To Halik's surprise, everyone passed the course. Therefore, he decides to devalue the test and only include 5% of the final grade. Rather, everyone has to prove their skills in a practical test on an obstacle course. This is designed in such a way that Halik can manipulate while driving and everyone will fail. Afterwards everyone is so depressed that Dana calls for revenge on Halik. While Halik spends a night of love full of sex and sadomasochism with the judge, they manipulate his patrol car. The next morning they are caught doing it by Morris. Angry with jealousy, she suggests stealing the evidence book about the upcoming auction. They steal it and flee through the city to Chief Fromm, who immediately arrests Halik and the judge. Dana's robbery conviction will then be declared null and void and all course participants will be given their driver's licenses. When Chief Fromm drives down the street shortly after completing the course, he sees how everyone has already been stopped by the police.

criticism

"The banal story serves as the basis for a tiring sequence of mostly dull gags."

- Lexicon of international film

publication

The film opened in US theaters on April 19, 1985 and was able to bring in a little over 10.6 million US dollars again. The film opened in Germany on August 29, 1985 and was seen by 139,960 moviegoers. The film has been available as a German-language VHS since May 1986 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Traffic School - The Sheet Metal and Roof Damage Company. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  2. ^ Moving Violations (1985) at boxofficemojo.com (English), accessed May 14, 2012
  3. ↑ Top 100 Germany 1985 on insidekino.de , accessed on May 14, 2012