Curly Sue
- James Belushi: Bill Dancer
- Kelly Lynch: Grey Ellison
- Alisan Porter: Curly Sue
- John Getz: Walker McCormick
- Fred Dalton Thompson: Bernard Oxbar
- Branscombe Richmond: Albert
- Steve Carell: Tesio
- Gail Boggs: Anise Hall
- Burke Byrnes: Dr. Maxwell
- Viveka Davis: Trina
- Barbara Tarbuck: Mrs. Arnold
Curly Sue - A curly head up a storm ( Curly Sue ) is an American comedy film directed by John Hughes from 1991.
Action
The Homeless Bill Dancer moves with his daughter Curly Sue by the United States. They come to Chicago, where Dancer simulates an accident, for it can be approach from the wealthy and ostensibly cold lawyer Grey Ellison. Ellison takes care of Dancers and Curly Sue. This does not fit their callous fiance Walker McCormick and he begins to intrigue against the two. After a second, unintended collision Ellison takes the two on in their luxury apartment.
In a conversation with Ellison, it turns out that the father of Sue Dancer is not, however, its always lovingly took after her mother died early. Ellison discovered that Dancer and Curly Sue have become close to her. At the same time they changed their behavior towards their clients in a positive sense, what triggers these as with her boss astonishment. Ellison and Dancer have the feeling that Sue needs a regular life, Sue sees the time being somewhat different. She begins to suspect what could happen to them.
After a conflict-laden dinner in fancy restaurant, which also pushes McCormick, Dancer and Sue run away. Ellison tried to change her mind on the road. Ultimately, it succeeds but the two to bring Ellison to spend the evening after their gusto. Astonished, they must take note of what the two companies without a cent in his pocket, and finds pleasure in it. What a contrast to her ordered life in high society.
McCormick realized that it swim away the skins and denounced Dancer and Curly Sue in the guardianship authorities. Sue comes into the home and Dancer in jail. As Ellison finds out, she goes on a rampage and runs for the third time someone overboard, this time her fiancé.
Ellison succeeds thanks to its relationships to bring Dancer from prison and Sue from the home. The family togetherness can start and Sue befriends even with the transition to school.
Reviews
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times of 25 October 1991, the film was a " schmaltzy, sentimental exercise in manipulating the public", but was effective in this regard. It was unrealistic from the beginning to the end. Although the plot " shamelessly sentimental " is, Ebert had it accepted by watching and felt sympathy for the characters.
The lexicon of international film wrote that the film was a "modern " Christmas Fairy Tale " ," the " without imagination tells ", is " wealth distanzlos " bring before and verniedliche poverty. He was a " hypocritical assembly line product", sometimes too brutal for younger audience.
Awards
Alisan Porter won the 1993 Young Artist Award.
Background
The film was shot in Chicago and Evanston (Illinois ). His cost of production was estimated at 30 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA about a 33.7 million U.S. dollars.