Twelve (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Twelve |
| Original title | Twelve |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 16 JMK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Joel Schumacher |
| script | Jordan Melamed |
| production | Sidonie Dumas Ted Field Charlie Corwin Jordan Melamed Robert Salerno |
| music | Harry Gregson-Williams |
| camera | Steven Fierberg |
| cut | Paul Zucker |
| occupation | |
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Twelve ( English for " twelve "; alternative title: Twelve - The Party of Your Life ) is an American film drama by director Joel Schumacher from 2010. The literary film adaptation is based on the book of the same name by the then 17-year-old Nick McDonell from the year 2002 and with Chace Crawford in the leading role portrays the life of the young drug dealer White Mike and his wealthy young customers in New York .
action
17-year-old Michael, also known as White Mike, dropped out of school after his mother's death and is now selling drugs to wealthy teenagers in the Upper East Side of Manhattan , New York.
It's spring break in New York, the teenagers are home from their boarding schools and partying. Business is going well for White Mike. In addition to conventional party drugs, the new drug "Twelve" is also popular with young people. However, White Mike does not want to sell this hard drug. Nevertheless, he establishes contact between the buyer and the dealer Lionel.
Charlie, White Mike's cousin, is shot and killed while trying to get drugs at gunpoint from Lionel in Harlem . Nana, an acquaintance of Mike, observes the crime and is then also killed by Lionel. Mike's best friend Hunter is suspected of murder because he had recently quarreled with Nana.
White Mike is a loner and keeps everyone at a distance. So he lies to his childhood friend Molly about his job, because he doesn't want to drag her into his dark world of drugs.
The school's most popular girl, Sara Ludlow, wants to get famous with the most significant party of all time. To do this, she wraps Christopher around his finger to throw a party at his parents' house on the occasion of her 18th birthday. Chris' brother Claude shows up unexpectedly after tumbling out of a boot camp his parents sent him to to avoid jail time. At the party, Claude goes crazy and shoots several party guests in a maddened state before he himself is shot by the police.
Reviews
“Schumacher projects his audience rapidly and with strong visual means into the intoxicating life of his protagonists. Unfortunately, the end of Twelve also rushes to a rush hour, so that at the end some of the previously mentioned aspects will no longer be discussed. Nevertheless, Twelve is one of the better works by Joel Schumacher ... "
"Stylish staging without popular figures"
“… In its narrative and staging [the film] seems almost sedate and outdated. The fragmentary dramaturgy of the original worked far better on paper than on canvas ... "
Web links
- Twelve in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Official page for the film
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Twelve . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , August 2010 (PDF; test number: 124 008 K).
- ↑ Age rating for Twelve . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Critique of Twelve ( Memento of the original from October 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at independentfilme.com
- ^ Critique of Twelve ( memento of October 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at BR -online
- ↑ Critique of Twelve at Schnitt
