Welcome to Cedar Rapids

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Movie
German title Welcome to Cedar Rapids
Original title Cedar Rapids
Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2011
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Miguel Arteta
script Phil Johnston
production Alexander Payne
Jim Taylor
Ed Helms
music Christophe Beck
camera Chuy Chavez
cut Eric Kissack
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Welcome to Cedar Rapids (according to the American city Cedar Rapids in Iowa ) is an American comedy film from 2011 . The focus of the film is Tim Lippe ( Ed Helms ), a blue-eyed insurance agent . After his supervisor had a fatal accident during a sex game ( breath control play ), Tim was commissioned to represent his employer at a large insurance congress.

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To call Tim Lippe unworldly is an understatement: he has spent his entire life in the small, tranquil town of Brown Valley in Wisconsin and has never left it, let alone stayed in a hotel or attended a conference. The only exception to this picture-book life is his affair with his former teacher Marcy Vanderhei, with whom he goes to bed every week and who is his advisor on all important questions in life, practically his life teacher. Participation in an insurance congress is completely new territory for him, and not least, this takes place in the huge metropolis of Cedar Rapids by his standards. Once there, the three veterans of the conference, Dean, Joan and Ronald, take the greenhorn under their wing and show him where to go. There seem to be no more taboos. For Tim, who otherwise always acts according to regulations, this congress is an experience that he will not soon forget.

background

Although the film is set in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it was filmed in Ann Arbor , Michigan . This was because of Michigan state tax breaks, which gave films made in Ann Arbor a 42% tax break.

criticism

David Steinitz wrote about the film in the Süddeutsche Zeitung : "The naive hero falls into the world in a big hustle and bustle, learns a bit from it - but above all from him. The bizarre always balances very close to the abyss of dreary small-town representatives -Biographies - there is always drama in the comic. One of the people who can play this through in Hollywood very well is John C. Reilly, who in "Cedar Rapids", as the prolo insurance dandler, harassed the tragedy of the lonely, successful bonus chasing Transferred the representative to a curious performance. "

Birgit Roschy wrote in the time "Ed Helms moves in this funny, tricky comedy in a similar constellation as in the Hangover boys' comedies, in which he was chosen as a nerdy dentist and part of a fun-loving gang of men. That is where the similarities stop , because director Miguel Arteta relies on fine-grained character and milieu drawings instead of brutal humor and bodily harm. "

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ foxsearchlight.com: Information about the film , accessed on February 19, 2011
  2. ↑ thegazette.com 'Cedar Rapids' movie debuts tonight at Sundance , accessed February 19, 2011
  3. ↑ David Steinitz, Süddeutsche Zeitung: Balance on the Abyss of Tristesse - Retrieved on February 27, 2012
  4. ↑ Birgit Roschy, Die Zeit: The unfathomable charm of philistinism - Retrieved on May 1, 2012