Fools Rush In (1997 film)
- Matthew Perry: Alex Whitman
- Salma Hayek: Isabel Fuentes Whitman
- Jon Tenney: Jeff
- Carlos Gómez: Chu
- Tomas Milian Tomas Fuentes
- Siobhan Fallon: Lanie
- John Bennett Perry: Richard Whitman
- Stanley DeSantis: Judd Marshall
- Suzanne Snyder: Cathy Stewart
- Anne Betancourt: Amalia
- Jill Clayburgh: Nan Whitman
- Shelley Morrison: Aunt Carmen
- Leslie Silva: Courier
Fools Rush In - heart over head ( Original Title: Fools Rush In) is an American comedy film from the year 1997 was directed by Andy Tennant, the screenplay by Katherine Reback and Joan Taylor.. The main roles were played by Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek.
Action
Isabel Fuentes is a U.S. citizen of Mexican descent. She spends a lot of time in Mexico, where her family lives. In her hometown of Las Vegas she learns in line at the toilet of a bar a native of New York construction manager Alex Whitman know who builds a club building in the city.
Isabel spends a night with Alex and disappears. After a few months she seeks Alex again to tell him that she was pregnant. Later, Alex is warmly received at the Fuentes and presented as Isabel's friend.
Isabel and Alex married in a simple Wedding Chapel in Las Vegas without Isabel's parents. Even the parents of Alex, the wedding initially withheld. Isabel's father is angry about it first and thinks Alex was more like a thief than behave like a man, because he did not formally asked for the hand of Isabel.
When the two surprise visit by Alex get parents, they are first led to believe that Isabel was a domestic help. Angry forces Isabel then Alex, to tell the truth, which is incorporated shocked by the parents.
On his birthday, Isabel travels with him to the Grand Canyon. She tells a story about a family of squirrels, their descendants on both sides of the canyon differently developed and yet a family would be a thing, even though they are spatially separated by the canyon. Alex understands history as an indication of the cultural differences in his marriage. Isabel says she would move to New York when Alex stay until the birth of the child in October in Las Vegas.
The building in Las Vegas will be completed in July, and Alex is right then take the next job site in Manhattan, a job to which he has been working for a long time. Isabel learns thereof but not by her husband but by his boss. She feels betrayed so and leaves her husband. When Alex is already in New York, Isabel reaches a divorce, which should be final in a few days. You lied to him as well, she had lost the child in a miscarriage.
Alex then travels to Mexico, where he learns of Isabel's great-grandmother, that Isabel is on the way back to Las Vegas. The old woman says, Isabel would still love him, but at the same time fear that the marriage, which is only held together by their child would have no future. On the way back he meets Isabel on the street in the middle of the Hoover Dam and discovered that it despite its rhetoric is still pregnant. She gets to the dam into labor and gives birth to the child exactly at the moment when the divorce becomes final. However, you want to stay with Alex.
In the final scene re- marriage of Isabel and Alex is shown, which takes place near the Grand Canyon.
Background
The film was shot in Toronto, New York City, Las Vegas, Henderson, Santa Fe, Taos and Crown Point. More pictures were taken at Grand Canyon National Park, Lake Mead and the Hoover Dam. Filming began on 19 April 1996 and ended on 20 June 1996. Celebrated its world premiere of the film in the U.S. on 14 February 1997. Switzerland the film on 8 August 1997, to see. In the cinemas in Germany he was on 14 August 1997. On the opening weekend over 9.7 million U.S. dollars were imported into the United States. Overall the income in the United States amounted to nearly 29.3 million U.S. dollars. Other 12.1 million U.S. dollars have been taken around the world. At the deutschten box office crowd turnout in the first game week over 39,700 and a total of nearly 90,500. On 6 December 2001 the film in Germany by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment was released on DVD with a G -6 release.
Originally Jennifer Lopez was offered the role of Isabel Fuentes, who rejected this role to play in Anaconda can so that she was eventually awarded to Salma Hayek. John Bennett Perry played not only in the film, the role of Matthew Perry's father, but is actually the father of the main character.
For the shooting of the film, the boundary between the two U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada was on the road that runs over the Hoover Dam, recorded. The local leaders set themselves a favor of keeping this marker. Since September 2005, this marker is, however, now gone.
Review
James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews the film would have done well. He praised the illustrations by Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek, and wrote that the film would be positively distinguished from the other disappointing ( disappointing ) comedies.
Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times on February 14, 1997, the film would be the energy of the representations ( energy of the performances ) live, where he praised especially those of Salma Hayek. He liked also that the main characters in the film would start opposite, which in many comedies, which are supported by the opposites of the characters, should not really be the case. As an example, he mentioned days like this with Michelle Pfeiffer and George Clooney.
Awards
Salma Hayek and was nominated in 1998 for the American Latino Media Arts Award in the category Best Actress, while the film was nominated for best film.