Tucker (1988)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Tucker |
| Original title | Tucker: The Man and His Dream |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1988 |
| length | 105 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 6 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Francis Ford Coppola |
| script |
Arnold Schulman , David Seidler |
| production |
Fred Fuchs , George Lucas , Fred Roos |
| music | Joe Jackson |
| camera | Vittorio Storaro |
| cut | Priscilla Nedd-Friendly |
| occupation | |
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Tucker (Alternative title: Tucker - A man and his dream ; Original title: Tucker: The Man and His Dream ) is an American biopic film by Francis Ford Coppola from 1988 .
action
Shortly after the Second World War, Preston Thomas Tucker had the ambition to build a technically perfect car. He attaches great importance to the safety of the vehicle, so he calls for disc brakes and seat belts. The authority for the dismantling of the armaments industry leaves a large aircraft factory to Tucker on the condition that he actually develops an automobile there and produces the first fifty copies within a given timeframe. The established auto industry tries to prevent him from realizing his plans in order not to have to catch up and thus save the costs of developing his own innovations. Even the CEO of his company, which has now been converted into a stock corporation, sabotaged his plans and changed important design features behind his back.
The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is used as a tool to gather or produce evidence of mismanagement, fraud, and tax evasion. When he learned of his planned arrest, he races his new car against two police cars and faces the assembled journalists before the court. In the trial, the prosecution fails to invalidate Tucker's argument that his model is feasible in the eyes of the jury. In time for the closing argument, 51 copies of the Tucker '48 are completed and placed in front of the courthouse.
It comes to a sensational acquittal. However, due to intervention by the US President, the plant was closed. But Tucker's idea has started to take hold.
background
The film was shot in California , including San Francisco and Oakland . Its production cost was estimated at about 23 million US dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 19.65 million in US cinemas.
reception
Reviews
Rita Kempley wrote in the Washington Post of 12 August 1988, the film was " relatively flat " ( " rather flat "). Jeff Bridges is the " perfect " cast of his role.
The lexicon of international film wrote that the “ lively ” film was “ an idealized portrait ” and “an avowed swan song for the irretrievably ending ' American dream ' of the inventive self-made man ”. He reflected " in the form of an enthusiastic, larger-than-life biography " " Coppola's own dreams and struggles against the constraints of industry . "
“Jeff Bridges' Tucker is the triumph of the surface. A smiling hero without depth, striking like the advertising pages of "Life". [...] A film in which there is a lot of singing and laughing - and yet one of the most humorless that has been seen for a long time. It shines with empty turbulence. "
Awards
The film was nominated for an Oscar in 1989 in the categories of Best Supporting Actor (Martin Landau), Best Production Design ( Dean Tavoularis and Armin Ganz) and Best Costume Design (Milena Canonero) . Martin Landau won the Golden Globe Award and the Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award in 1989 . Dean Tavoularis won the BAFTA Award in 1989 for Best Production Design .
Dean Stockwell won the National Society of Film Critics Award and the New York Film Critics Circle Award in 1988 . Joe Jackson was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1989. The film was nominated for the Casting Society of America Award in 1989.
The German Film and Media Assessment (FBW) in Wiesbaden awarded the film the title valuable.
“The result is a rousing film that opens up new thematic or creative perspectives. But on the other hand it is a warning film that not only superficially poses the question of the American way of life (also with a view to the competitiveness of an encrusted economy). "
Web links
- Tucker in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Tucker onrotten tomatoes(English)
- Movie poster on filmposter-archiv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tucker. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Filming locations for Tucker: The Man and His Dream
- ^ Business Data for Tucker: The Man and His Dream
- ^ Rita Kempley : Tucker: A Man and His Dream. The Washington Post , August 12, 1988, archived from the original on November 13, 2012 ; accessed on January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Matthias Matussek: The tycoon's farewell to Hollywood . In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1988 ( online - Nov. 21, 1988 ).
- ↑ a b Tucker - A Man and His Dream. German Film and Media Rating (FBW), accessed on January 4, 2020 .