Roasted and sold
Burned and Sold (Original title: Grilled ) is an American comedy film directed by Jason Ensler from 2006. The screenplay was written by William Tepper and Larry Hankin .
The film premiered on July 11, 2006 in the USA and was shown for the first time in Germany on November 3, 2006.
action
Maurice and Dave are meat product sales agents . Unfortunately, their employer has not been able to sign any contracts in a while, so the employer gives them an ultimatum. If you do not have a degree by the end of the day, you will lose your job.
Dave, who lives separately from his wife and little daughter, would like to give his daughter Dolly a swing and slide for her birthday, but he lacks the necessary money. His partner Maurice, who has similarly little success with women and who is training as an acupuncturist parallel to his job , also lacks financial reserves, so that the two of them face their possibly last client with the courage of desperation to get the longed for Achieve graduation and keep their jobs.
One of the addresses that Maurice and Dave received from their boss leads them to the Latina Loridonna. Before she signs the contract, however, her friend threatens her on the phone to cut her wrists. Then all three set out to save the suicide-prone Suzanne. When Loridonna and the two men arrive at Suzanne's home, Suzanne has already bandaged her wrists and stopped the bleeding. Dave pretends to be a doctor to calm and distract the heavily drunk Suzanne, while Maurice vies with Loridonna in the kitchen for the required signature.
Instead of signing the contract, Loridonna lures the representative Maurice into the master's bedroom. Before it even comes to a lunchtime, Suzanne's husband Tony (an arms dealer ) returns home with a cut on his right shoulder and tells Maurice that Loridonna used to be a man. She confirms this and tries to explain it to the disappointed (and disgusted) Maurice. But instead of throwing the men out, Tony offers them to roast a steak. While the meat is being prepared, Dave is trying to sell Tony a contract when two hit men enter the kitchen and shoot Tony.
Alarmed by the noise, Maurice takes the guns that Tony has left in the bedroom and manages to capture and disarm the two killers, Bobby and Irving, who were hired by Suzanne. However, in order not to have to flee from the mafia from now on , the four men agree not to kill each other and instead to eat the meat that has now been prepared together. After Maurice and Dave have returned their guns to the killers, Bobby receives a phone call from his employer Boris, who is by no means taken with the idea of leaving witnesses to Tony's murder alive. Then Maurice and Dave are overpowered by the killers and tied with tape stowed in the trunk of their car. You are left alone in the vehicle in the parking lot in front of the restaurant where Goldbluth is giving a party for his son and can break free.
Before the two killers, who were set by Boris to kill the host Goldbluth, can put their plan into practice, Maurice and Dave have not only received a signed contract from him for an extensive delivery of meat, but can also warn him of the approaching killers . Goldbluth then lets his bodyguards kill them.
After Maurice and Dave surprise their boss with seven signed contracts worth $ 21,000 , both keep their jobs and buy a swing with a slide to set up for a barbecue in his wife's garden just in time for Dolly's birthday .
background
The original title of the script was "Men Who Don't Quit". The film was shot in Los Angeles between July 7, 2004 and August 2, 2004 , but was not released directly on DVD until more than two years later . In addition to the feature film, the DVD includes an unused scene, a making-of and a documentary about the good friendship between Romano and James in real life as bonus material.
criticism
"The two comedians are comedy self-sellers", writes Cinema and considers the film to be a "meatball comedy with fresh gags".
Dani Maurer from Outnow! praises the "interplay of the main characters, who take each other on the arm like a friend and bite and thus advance the simple plot well, [...] without being as funny as you know it from them." Hence the film "Grilled" in his opinion "like a piece of meat that is only half done".
Ingo Lüttecke saw a “film full of surprises” which, “with an excellent cast and a funny story”, is, in his opinion, “one of the top films of this year” and is therefore “an absolute buy recommendation”.
In contrast, the lexicon of international film said: “An over-the-top comedy attempt in which nothing really fits together; The two main actors, two television comedians, don't harmonize well either. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ Locations according to the Internet Movie Database
- ↑ a b movie review , OutNow !, Dani Maurer
- ↑ a b Film review ( Memento of the original from December 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , digitalvd, Ingo Lüttecke
- ^ Film review , Cinema
- ↑ wasted and sold in the lexicon of international film
Web links
- Consumed and sold in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Verbraten and sold at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Consumed and sold in the German dubbing index