maybe, maybe not
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | maybe, maybe not |
| Original title | Definitely, Maybe |
| Country of production | United Kingdom , USA , France , Germany |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2008 |
| length | 112 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Adam Brooks |
| script | Adam Brooks |
| production |
Tim Bevan Eric Fellner |
| music | Clint Mansell |
| camera | Florian Ballhaus |
| cut | Peter Teschner |
| occupation | |
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Definitely, Maybe (original title: Definitely, Maybe) is a romantic comedy film from 2008 , directed by Adam Brooks , in the Ryan Reynolds , Rachel Weisz , Elizabeth Banks , Isla Fisher , Kevin Kline and Abigail Breslin play the leading roles.
action
William Hayes is an agent in an advertising agency in New York. Every Tuesday and Friday he picks up his daughter Maya from school because his wife wants to divorce him and it is the only way for him to see his daughter. When he went to pick Maya up on the day his divorce papers were delivered, there was an uproar at his daughter's school because sex education was being taught that day . After Maya asks him about it too, she wants to be told the story of Will and her mother. When Maya begins to pester Will with it, he eventually tells her the story, but changes names and facts so that Maya has to guess who of the three women in her father's life is her mother. Will's story is told in long flashbacks , interrupted again and again by Maya's questions and comments.
Will's story begins on New Years Day 1992 in Madison, Wisconsin . Will falls in love with his college love, Emily Jones, before going to New York as an idealistic young politician to participate in Clinton's election campaign. Emily gives Will a sealed package to give to her friend Summer Hartley, a journalist. Arriving in New York, he meets April Hoffman at the campaign office, who only works on the Clinton campaign because she earns more money there than babysitting. After Will's roommate has convinced him, he opens the package and finds Summers diary in it. He reads it and comes across pages that describe an affair between Emily and Summer. He then goes to Summer to bring her the diary, but there is only her lover Hampton Roth, a famous author and her professor. The two have a drink and Will falls asleep. When Summer wakes him up, he gives her the diary. As she leaves, she kisses him in front of her apartment door and says that she has to "cultivate" her curiosity.
When Will meets April in a store and loses a bet, he accompanies her to a party. After asking Will about his relationship with Emily, he shows her the engagement ring he has for Emily. She asks him to practice the application procedure with him. Then April replies to Will's question "Maybe, maybe not". The two go back to April's apartment, where she has collected several issues of Jane Eyre . She explains to Will that shortly before he died, her father gave her the book with a dedication for her 13th birthday. However, after April's mother sold their house, their copy was lost. Since then she has been looking in second-hand bookshops for the book with her father's dedication. When Will and April kiss, he just wants to go quickly and is annoyed with himself.
On the way to his hotel room, he sees Emily get into the elevator of his hotel, so that Will is forced to take the stairs instead of the elevator. Nevertheless, he arrives in his room after Emily. When the two of them are walking in Central Park , Will asks Emily if she would like to marry him. However, Emily abruptly interrupts him to tell him that she slept with Will's college roommate. When Clinton won the election in New York, Will can't really be happy - April tries to comfort him.
When Clinton wins the presidential election, Will gets his chance in 1994 as a speechwriter for a candidate who has applied for the post of governor of New York. April breaks up with her boyfriend after Kurt Cobain's death and starts traveling. They and Will become pen pals, as they more and more often send each other postcards first and later also letters. Will meets Summer again at a speech by Hampton Roth. Roth convinces Summer that she is writing an article with Will's influence. The two then begin a relationship with each other. After Roth's aortic rupture, April is back in New York. However, she is upset when Will picks up an engagement ring for Summer from the jeweler because she didn't know about it. But when Summer writes an investigative article about Will's boss, Will's relationship is also over.
After Clinton's re-election and his involvement in the Lewinsky affair , the disaffected Will begins to drink. After his birthday party, which April organized for him, he confesses his love to her and pisses her off at the same moment as he insinuates that she has no life experience. Years later, Will finds April's copy of Jane Eyre with her father's dedication in a second-hand bookshop and wants to bring it to April. He only meets Olivia, April's flat-share colleague, who tells him that April is still at the university where she has started her postgraduate studies. However, since she should be back soon, he decides to wait for her. In the shared apartment, however, he made the acquaintance of Kevin, April's new friend, whereupon he lost the desire to wait and left the shared apartment. On the way home, he meets Summer, who invites him to a party where she wants to make up with everyone she's ever hurt. At the party, Will meets Emily again, who has moved to New York after taking a job there.
Maya then finds out through a gesture that Emily is her mother. Will Maya later reveals his " happy ending ": Maya. After Maya, Emily, and Will go to the zoo, Will signs the divorce papers. Rummaging through a box, he finds the book Jane Eyre with the dedication and decides to bring it over to April. April tells Will about the breakup with her last boyfriend, whereupon Will gives her the book. He wants to be honest, so he tells her that he has had the book for years. Since she is disappointed that he has owned it for years, she tells him to go, which he does without a word.
Maya then confronts her father about why he changed everyone's names to only April's name. In response to the question, he drives Maya to April's apartment. Maya wants her father to tell April his story, but April doesn't open. After Maya and Will are about to leave, April runs after them and asks Will about the story. He tells her that he's kept the book over the years because it's the only thing he has left of her. The film ends with April throwing herself into Will's arms and kissing him.
criticism
“A romantic comedy aimed at total harmony. Although she uses rather less original, undemanding twists, thanks to the solid actors she is entertaining. "
Trivia
Rachel Weisz , Elizabeth Banks, and Isla Fisher had all starred in films directed by David Dobkin . Isla Fisher starred in The Wedding Crashers , Rachel Weisz and Elizabeth Banks starred in The Santa Brothers .
sales
On its premiere weekend in late January 2008, the film grossed $ 9.7 million in 2,204 cinemas in the United States and Canada . By April 2, 2008 he had already grossed around 44.5 million US dollars worldwide.
Web links
- Maybe, maybe not in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Maybe, maybe not at Rotten Tomatoes (English)
- Maybe, maybe not at Metacritic (English)
- official page
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Maybe, maybe not . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , February 2008 (PDF; test number: 113 201 K).
- ↑ Age rating for maybe, maybe not . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Maybe, maybe not. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ^ Definitely, Maybe (2008) - Weekend Box Office Results . Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 2, 2008.
- ^ Definitely, Maybe (2008) . Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 2, 2008.