America's Sweethearts

America's Sweethearts (German: "America's darlings " ) is an American comedy film from the year 2001.

Action

The film producer Lee Phillips must match the premiere of a new movie in the living separation spouses Eddie Thomas and Gwen Harrison. Both are well-known Hollywood stars, but popular as a pair with the public. While Gwen has a Latino lover, Eddie remains after the separation and its collapse in a mental hospital.

To make matters worse, that the eccentric director and three-time Academy Award winner Hal Weidmann refuses to earlier than to show the film during the official presentation to the press. So the disappointed pressmen the Premiere can not leave early, Lee Phillips organized the demonstration in a remote located hotel in Nevada.

Before the premiere Eddie becomes increasingly clear that he has overlooked numerous characteristic weaknesses of Gwen, because he wanted to see them for real life as they are in their film roles. At the same time he feels increasingly drawn to Gwen's sister and assistant Kiki (Julia Roberts). The ultimately held Screening out of control. Weidmann has without a script, the actors and other employees without their knowledge privately filmed and cut everything accordingly to redefine the authenticity of his works. At the press conference Eddie reveals his feelings towards both Gwen and Kiki. Gwen dismisses Kiki as an assistant, and unexpectedly experienced again a career boost. You hugged her sister, Eddie and Kiki kiss each other in front of the reporters.

Production

Formation

Originally Julia Roberts was cast in the role of Gwen Harrison, but she opted for in their opinion, more diverse role of Kiki. Robert Downey Jr., who was to play the role of Hector, was arrested on drug possession shortly before filming began on 10 January 2001 on suspicion.

Costs

The production costs were approximately 48 million U.S. dollars. The film played in the American cinema, a 94 million dollars. He is counted in addition to Jurassic Park III to the most financially successful films of 2001.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews, the film thematize the lives of Hollywood dream pairs such as Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise, Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid or Demi Moore and Bruce Willis. High-profile actors like Julia Roberts, Catherine Zeta -Jones, John Cusack and Billy Crystal would act like a closed ensemble here; self supporting roles were with first-class character actors (A -list character actors ) as Christopher Walken and Stanley Tucci occupied. Berardinelli praised the ground ( sharp) dialogs as well as wrote and directed the film was the best comedy of the summer 2001.

Synchronization

  • Julia Roberts ( Kiki Harrisson ): Daniela Hoffmann
  • Billy Crystal (Lee Phillips): Joachim Tennstedt
  • John Cusack ( Eddie Thomas ): Andreas Fröhlich
  • Catherine Zeta -Jones ( Gwen Harrison ): Arianne Borbach
  • Hank Azaria ( Hector ): Tobias Meister
  • Seth Green (Danny Wax, Assistant to Lee Phillips): Marcel Collé
  • Christopher Walken (Hal Weidmann ): Frank Glaubrecht
  • Stanley Tucci (Dave Kingman ): Michael Pan

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Awards

James Newton Howard won the Film and Television Music Award 2002 by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.

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