Kissed awake

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Movie
German title Kissed awake
Original title Living Out Loud
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 1998
length 100 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Richard LaGravenese
script Richard LaGravenese
production Danny DeVito
Michael Shamberg
Stacey Sher
music George Fenton
camera John Bailey
cut Jon Gregory
Lynzee Klingman
occupation

Kissed Awake (Original Title: Living Out Loud ) is an American comedy film from 1998 . It was directed by Richard LaGravenese , who also wrote the script.

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Judith Moore initially separates from her husband, a respected cardiologist, when it is discovered that he is having an affair with a younger woman. She herself dropped out of medical school and works as a nurse. Freshly divorced, she stays in the spacious apartment on New York's Upper East Side and tries to find her way around the new situation. One evening when she was looking for the door to the ladies' room in a jazz club, she was kissed by a strange man who mistook her for another woman. After a short conversation and another kiss, he finally asks her if she might be back a week later. When she visits the club again, however, it no longer shows up there.

In the meantime, Judith gets to know Pat Francato better, the elevator operator in her house, who lives apart from his wife and whose daughter has just died. He begins to be more and more interested in her, but she tries to make it clear to him that she is not attracted to him. She enjoys the nightlife with the singer Liz Bailey, with whom she has become friends. One day she also calls an erotic masseur into her apartment, to which Pat reacts a little jealously.

When Pat finally wants to fly with her to Italy and confesses his love to her , she makes it clear to him again that she cannot do it and that she doesn't feel the way he does. But the two remain friends. A few months later she resumed her studies. In the jazz club she sees him from a distance, like he is with another woman.

Reviews

Film-Dienst wrote that the film was a "verbose comedy that was reminiscent of Billy Wilder's The Apartment " from 1960, "without reaching his dialog wit". The “existing approaches to a precise character study” would remain “on the surface” - among other things, “because the script offered too little space for the characters to develop”.

Cinema magazine wrote that “not even high-profile stars like Holly Hunter and Danny DeVito” would save the “emancipation comedy”. There are similarly constructed films "like stars on Hollywood Boulevard". The plot is "as skinny as the emaciated Holly Hunter"; the process of maturing the protagonist is "as random as the Saturday lottery numbers - just far less exciting".

TV TODAY magazine described the film as "weird, mildly provocative, sometimes maddeningly funny and full of sympathy for unlucky people and daydreamers".

Kultur Spiegel magazine praised Wachgeküßt as “a survival story for adults”.

Awards

Holly Hunter was nominated for the 1999 Golden Satellite Award , the American Comedy Award, and the Chicago Film Critics Association Award . Danny DeVito was nominated for the Chlotrudis Award in 1999. Queen Latifah was nominated for the Image Award in 1999.

backgrounds

The film was shot in Los Angeles and New York City . Its production amounted to an estimated 12 million US dollars . The world premiere took place on September 15, 1998 at the Toronto International Film Festival , which was followed on October 14, 1998 by a screening at the Hamptons International Film Festival . The film opened in US cinemas on October 30, 1998 and grossed approximately $ 12.9 million there. After the German theatrical release on February 4, 1999, around 48 thousand cinema viewers were counted.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kissed awake in the Lexicon of International FilmsTemplate: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used , accessed on August 18, 2008
  2. ↑ Cinema , accessed August 18, 2008.
  3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Filming locations for Living Out Loud , accessed August 18, 2008.
  6. ^ Box office / business for Living Out Loud , accessed August 18, 2008.
  7. ↑ Release dates for Living Out Loud , accessed August 18, 2008.