Tuesdays with Morrie (film)

Tuesdays with Morrie is a television film directed by Mick Jackson from 1999, based on the book by Mitch Albom. Book and film describe the real relationship between the journalist Mitch Albom and the terminally ill sociology professor Morrie Schwartz.

Action

Mitch Albom works as a popular sports columnist at the Detroit Free Press. Although he has a successful career, but fills it not work. He is one night carefully a newscast on his former college professor Morrie Schwartz, whom he had lost after the end of his studies of the eyes by accident. Mitch discovers that the 78 -year-old now is suffering from the nerve disease ALS and is in a wheelchair. A first meeting of the two runs to the surprise of the journalist from a very friendly, although Mitch feels guilty for having lost contact with Morrie. A discussion of life, happiness and death both result in weekly meetings continue, in which Mitch slips again until the death of Morrie in the student's role. After a few weeks now, the old friendship between the two has blossomed again and they begin to question the superficial, egogeladene absurdity of the sports world. Mitch realizes that Morrie's impending death has made the college professor is not embittered old man. He is still a bubbling over teacher with a keen mind, can be the slow death see things with incredible clarity.

Genesis and Release Date

Morrie Schwartz was in the 1970s Alboms former college professor at Brandeis University. After Albom had had for 16 years no contact with him, he was accidentally attention in March 1995 by the news program Nightline on his old mentor, who was interviewed by journalist Ted Koppel. He then visited these 14 weeks, on Tuesdays.

Mitch Alboms based on the meeting that took place Roman Oprah Winfrey put forward in her book club and he liked it so much that they decided to produce a film based on it. In addition to Oprah Winfrey and Kate Forte and Jennifer Ogden worked with as a producer. The exporting production companies were the Oprah Winfrey Harpo Productions company owned and Carlton America. The film was shot in Los Angeles and Santa Carlita in California.

The first broadcast in the U.S. took place on December 5th place in 1999 on the ABC television, the German premiere took place on 27 May 2001 to VOX.

Reviews

Ray Richmond on U.S. industry publication Variety noted that screenwriter Tom Rickman would have closely followed the literary model, but Alboms insight and sensitivity trivialized and would have mitigated. He praised the two main actors Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria: " Lemmon plays his best work on ... Azaria shows the most complex and empathic performance of his career ," says Richmond. Similar complained James Poniewozik (Time): " No matter how good the literary work may be, their Carpe Diem aphorisms transfer is not particularly good in the film, which applies also grip the eye all the means up to the lacrimal gland to key. " Peter Croatto criticized in his criticism on Filmcritic.com also that at least does not really convince in the movie the wisdom of Morrie, the acting performances of Jack Lemmon and Hank Azaria, he judged, however, also positive.

Awards

For his last feature film role Jack Lemmon won an Emmy Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Kodarsteller Hank Azaria also won the Emmy for Best Supporting Actor and a nomination for the Screen Actors Guild. Other awards included the Writers Guild of America Award, the Humanitas Prize and the Prize of the Directors Guild of America for Mick Jackson. Winfrey won an Emmy as a producer as well and the price of the Producers Guild of America.

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