The Toy (1982 film)

The playmate is an American comedy film from the year 1982 by Richard Donner. It is the remake of the French comedy The toy of 1976.

Action

Jack Brown is an unemployed journalist, who after graduating from college just can not find a job and whose house is on the verge of foreclosure. So he looks for a job that is far below his qualifications as an academic and begins as a cleaner in the company of U.S. Bates on. So he is at night while brushing and playing in the store, as he is being watched by Bates 's son Eric and his staff from a hiding place. Eric was allowed to choose any toy, what he wanted, but after seeing how clumsy Jack playing around, he just wants to have Jack. But Jack refuses to go along and can be persuaded only with difficulty. Only when you press him several hundred dollars in his hand, he agrees to be packaged as a gift to Bates ' Villa to let send.

And there he insists on his dignity and is persuaded only with a lot of money to do and buy for a week to take care of Eric and to play with him. Jack learns that Eric feels let down by his father alone, so he now also sees the job personally. But Mr. Bates Fancy wife he is humiliated at a dinner party as a new toy of her step- son, so he then angrily leaves the estate. And after Eric so angry ruined the party, Jack receives a check, which makes the forced sale of his house unnecessarily, so he sets out again on his way to work. But Eric continues to play his pranks, so Jack must explain first that you can not buy friends, but must earn a lot more.

And so Jack Eric tries to teach playful, like a newspaper works. Having interviewed the staff of Mr. Bates and so disclosed some dirty little history, they print their illegal newspaper and distribute it for free in the city. Of course, Mr. Bates is it not at all enthusiastic and ordered both to his office, where he demands that they withdraw their newspaper because it constitutes lying. However, despite Eric's protest that he wrote only the truth, says Mr. Bates, that he who has the money must determine what is the truth. And since he has the money, he determined that there are lies. And so he offers Jack a job at his newspaper, which this takes. Of course Eric is disappointed, but he believes that Jack has betrayed its ideals, but this has to think of his family and that he needs a job to survive, so he have the luxury of ideals can not afford.

But Jack is Eric then but at that on a party of Mr. Bates for the Senator donate both anger and confusion, which escape the most honored guests and the party is a disaster. Wants to drive the two troublemakers When Mr. Bates, he ends up in the pool, and must be rescued by Jack. Out of gratitude about Mr. Bates asks Jack if he could not tell him how he could better live with his son and Jack tells him.

Reviews

The film received very poor reviews. So the website RottenTomatoes of nine evaluated professional reviews counted only a positive, corresponding to a value of 11%. Also by the general public, the film was received with rather average responses, because at the same time evaluated 55 % of 15,555 users the film positive. This, in turn, is more than confirmed by the online film archive IMDb, another platform, can submit their film reviews on the normal users, because there gave users the 4677 film below-average 5.3 out of 10 possible points. (Updated: September 21, 2011)

In the liberal daily newspaper New York Times Vincent Canby criticized the film because he could bring himself hardly to watch this video until the end, which probably was because of the " poorly executed gags " that were " copied the French original " directly from. The two main actors Richard Pryor and Jackie Gleason were " wasted" in the film, because Gleason looks " as if he had permanently from hairdresser " and Pryor did not come despite the best effort approach to its standard level.

Background

In the documentary series E! True Hollywood Story stated Scott Schwartz, that he many of the scenes he played with Jackie Gleason, thereby ruining that he did not klarkam with the improvisational style of Gleason, because he had learned in drama school that you had to recite his lyrics by heart while Gleason just start playing.

Awards

  • When Young Artist Award 1982 Scott Schwartz Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture

Publication

The playmate was launched on 10 December 1982 in the American cinema and was a box office the first weekend of 6.3 million U.S. dollars, the newly launched The Incredible Journey in a crazy spaceship and only 48 hours in second place and three of the movie charts refer. Overall, he played 47.1 million U.S. dollars and is now considered the eleventh most successful remake of a French film since 1980. In West Germany the film opened on 15 April 1983 in the Kinos.Auf VHS is the film since 31 January 1989 available.

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