Our enemy neighbors

Movie
German title	Our enemy neighbors
Original title	Canadian bacon
Country of production	United States
original language	English
Publishing year	1995
length	91 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Michael Moore
script	Michael Moore
production	David Brown , Michael Moore, Ron Rotholz
music	Elmer Bernstein , Peter Bernstein
camera	Haskell Wexler
cut	Michael Berenbaum, Wendey Stanzler
occupation
John Candy : Sheriff Bud B. Boomer Alan Alda : US President Rhea Perlman : Deputy Honey Kevin Pollak : Stuart Smiley, National Security Advisor Rip Torn : General Dick Panzer Kevin J. O'Connor : Roy Boy Bill Nunn : Kabral Jabar DG Spradlin : RJ Hacker James Belushi : Charles Jackal

Our Hostile Neighbors (original title Canadian Bacon ) is an American comedy film from 1995 . Directed by Michael Moore , who also wrote the script.

action

In the industrial city of Niagara Falls , a large part of the population goes out of work when the local defense companies of Hacker Industries shut down as a result of the unpleasant peace that followed the end of the Cold War . The frustration of the population goes so far that the accumulation of suicides rushing down Niagara Falls leads to a bonus system for the local sheriffs ($ 25 if you persuade the suicide not to jump; $ 50 if you Takes the corpse out of the water). Meanwhile, the president's poll results are falling rapidly. When he attends the auction of leftover weapons in a closed hacker factory and suggests investing the former arms budget in education, he is almost booed.

To lift the mood in the country and stabilize the economy, the President's Advisor, Stuart Smiley, and General Dick Panzer are developing a plan to incite the American people against Canadian neighbors after Russia refused to restart the Cold War . Targeted propaganda, readily accepted by the media, soon led to pronounced hatred against the Canadian population. When an action carried out by the CIA , in which a US hydroelectric power station is to be blown up by CIA agents disguised as Canadians, the violence escalates.

Sheriff Bud Boomer from Niagara Falls leaves for Canada with two friends to free the supposedly kidnapped Deputy Honey. Meanwhile, the Hacker Hellstorm, a weapon that can fire all US nuclear missiles at the same time, is being sold by RJ Hacker to the Canadians as a weather station and activated. Since the Canadians are not aware of the actual function of the Hellstorm, nobody understands the panicked US President who is desperately trying to prevent the launching of the missiles diplomatically and militarily. RJ Hacker dies in an argument with Stuart Smiley and Honey, who is close to madness, occupies the CN Tower in Toronto , where the Hacker Hellstorm is installed. At the last second, she realizes that the computers are in the tower of Hacker Industries, and evokes her anger at hackers by freely using her automatic weapon. Unexpectedly, it stops the countdown to launch the rockets at the last second.

Reviews

Peter Stack wrote in the San Francisco Chronicle of November 11, 1995 that the Dr. Strange or: How I learned to love the bomb largely doesn't work. The parody seems "twisted" and "boastful" like the show Saturday Night Live , but the basic idea has intelligence.

The London magazine Time Out wrote that the film was "malicious" but pointed.

“Accurate satire on gullibility, seduction and the good obedience of the media. For all the simplicity of their roles, the actors who act with relish shine. "

- Lexicon of international film

backgrounds

The film was shot in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario and Buffalo ( New York ). Its production amounted to an estimated eleven million dollars . The film grossed approximately $ 178,000 in United States cinemas.

Trivia

It was the last movie starring John Candy , who died of a heart attack on March 4, 1994. However, it was the penultimate film that was shot with John Candy, as the latter then starred in Wagons East , which was later shot but released before Our Hostile Neighbors .

It is Michael Moore's only film that is not a documentary .

Web links

• Our hostile neighbors in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Our hostile neighbors at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
• Our hostile neighbors in the online film database
• Our hostile neighbors in the German dubbing index

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Film review by Peter Stack, accessed October 15, 2007
2. ↑ Time Out film review ( Memento from September 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
3. ↑ Our Hostile Neighbors in the Lexicon of International Films , accessed October 15, 2007
4. ↑ Filming locations for Canadian Bacon, accessed October 15, 2007
5. ^ Box office / business for Canadian Bacon, accessed October 15, 2007