Five in a lifetime
| Episode of the Party of Five series | |
|---|---|
| title | Five in a lifetime |
| Original title | pilot |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| length | about 45 minutes |
| classification | Season 1, Episode 1 1st episode overall |
| First broadcast | September 12, 1994 on Fox |
| German-language first broadcast |
March 2, 1996 on RTL |
| Rod | |
| Director | Richard Pierce |
| script |
Christopher Keyser Amy Lippman |
| music | Steven Cahill |
| camera | Roy H. Wagner |
| cut |
Tina Hirsch W. K. Scott Meyer |
| occupation | |
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For five in life (original title: Pilot) is the first episode of the first season of the American youth series Party of Five . The American youth series was created from 1994 to 2000 and shows in 142 episodes the fate of the Salinger siblings, who are on their own after the death of their parents. Under these dramatic circumstances, they are forced to take responsibility for one another and adjust their lives to reflect reality. In the process, very different life plans develop.
action
The 24-year-old Charlie Salinger has to take over the guardianship of his siblings after the fatal car accident of his parents. He is actually overwhelmed by that and would rather spend his own life as usual and with his girlfriend instead of taking care of his siblings. Due to the lack of supervision and control, Brother Bailey buys a new Jeep instead of a family station wagon, which immediately causes trouble with his older brother Charlie. Sister Julia also prefers to buy a new leather jacket with the money she has earmarked for her studies because she wants to impress a boy.
Money worries grow when a nanny is urgently needed for Owen and a plumber has to be hired to carry out urgent repairs. Faced with these financial hardships, Claudia, who is the family's musical prodigy, transfers her beloved violin to a pawn shop. But since Charlie has invested the family inheritance in a real estate project and it was lost, the proceeds from the violin do not bring the children out of their plight. It looks like the family has no income for half a year through Charly's fault. Charlie realizes that he has to take his job as head of the family more seriously and moves back home. He even manages to get Claudia's violin back, but he still doesn't have a permanent job. The attempt to get a loan from the new owner of the "Salinger" restaurant, which belonged to his father, ends with Charly having to work in the restaurant from now on in order to be able to provide for his family. Bailey managed to make an arrangement with a nanny. For sharing the jeep with them, the cost of their employment can be reduced. In the face of this first practical test, they treat themselves to their traditional family dinner at which everyone is gathered and are optimistic that they will also be able to tackle the problems that lie ahead together.
music
The music for the pilot episode was composed by Jim Latham. Everybody Hurts by REM was used as a piece of music for the background music for the episode .
BoDean's hit Closer to Free was used as the episode's theme song . It became their only hit single when it was used in the pilot episode and then came up to # 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and even became a number one hit in Canada .
production
The concept for the episode came from screenwriter Christopher Keyser and Amy Lippman. Columbia Pictures Television with its producer team around Chris Keyser, Amy Lippman, Ken Topolsky, Mark B. Perry, Mitchell Burgess, Robin Green and Ken Topolsky produced the pilot episode, as well as many other episodes of the series, in San Francisco , California where the pilot episode was also filmed. Directed by Richard Pierce.
reception
Five people in a lifetime met mainly with enthusiasm in the media in the production country USA. "The best TV drama ... honest, unusually well-written script," wrote Time Magazine . USA Today newspaper found: "An emotionally moving drama." The pilot episode also received the renowned Humanitas Prize and the Golden Globe Award for best TV episode.
The episode is attributed to the genre drama and youth series .
Cultural
The episode, like the entire series, is specially oriented towards young people and is about a group of young people and their slow growing up. Concentrating on this youth group means that the consequences are mostly age-related problems such as love, friendship, school, training, self-discovery, pressure to adapt or puberty . The target group is mostly the same age as the characters and gets older with them.
Web links
- Five of life in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Five in a lifetime at Fernsehserien.de
- Five in a lifetime at Serien-Arena.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Five in Life at Internet Movie Database, accessed August 23, 2015.