Kotch

  • Walter Matthau: Joseph P. Kotcher
  • Deborah Winters: Erica Herzenstiel
  • Felicia Farr: Wilma Kotcher
  • Charles Aidman: Gerald Kotcher
  • Ellen Geer: Vera Kotcher
  • Donald and Dean Kowalski: Duncan Kotcher
  • Arlen Stuart: Mrs. Fisher
  • Jane Connell: Miss Roberts
  • James Brodhead: Mr. Weaver
  • Jessica Rains: Dr. McKernan
  • Darrell Larson: Vincent Perrin
  • Biff Elliot: Motel Manager
  • Paul Picerni: Dr. Ramon Caudillo
  • Lucy Saroyan: Sissy
  • Kim Hamilton: Emma Daly
  • Paul Fierro: Pablo
  • Larry Linville: Peter stem
  • Penny Santon: Mrs. Segura
  • Dee Carroll: Dorothy Ballinger

Grandpa 's can not be is an American comedy film from the year 1971. The film adaptation based on the novel by Katharine Kotch Topkins. He's in Germany under the Alternative title Grandpa Kotch - known Full steam out of the impasse.

Action

The pensioner Joseph P. Kotcher lives with his son Gerald and his daughter Wilma Kotcher in a house in Los Angeles, California. He is a caring, loving, but also slightly more talkative old man who loved to take care of his grandson Duncan. However, he goes with his kind Wilma so on the nerves that they are slowly trying to oust him from the family. So they replaced it with the new babysitter Erica Herzenstiel. You should take care of Duncan now. This makes them more bad than good, so Joseph contaminated to intervene with Gerald. Instead, he must learn that he is to be deported in a retirement home. But Sunnydale However, he is less than enthusiastic. He will prefer to take care of his family. When he visited Gerald and Wilma for Halloween, but he has to realize that he is not really welcome.

Joseph seeks instead to prefer Erica. She is pregnant and he helped her some time ago with some money. Now he finds her as a hairdresser in Palm Springs, California. He rents a house there, offers her to stay with him and henceforth takes good care of her. She enjoys the following time and care. But to his horror, she decides that baby release after birth for adoption. This prevents him, however, no doubt to continue to care for them. One night she wakes him. The labor has started. Quick moves them toward Joseph Hospital. But they do not make it in time. Erica delivers her child in the ladies toilet of a petrol station. She decides to keep the baby and begins after a time to a new life in Los Angeles.

Joseph, however, visited after a long time again his son. Gerald and Wilman knew all the time not know where Joseph was. They worried and saw yourself how much she missed him, so they apologize and ask him now, to be recovered. Joseph refuses. He wants to stay in Palm Springs, because he is there still needed. Rather, he invites them to himself. As to himself, he is back home, Joseph finds a letter from Erica. Originally it was written to explain the adopted child later why she decided against it. He reads it learns from the greatest gratitude felt by Erica opposite him for his care.

Background

Jack Lemmon's directorial debut should continue to be his last film as a director. His friend Walter Matthau was at the time of the shooting 50 years old. Charle Aidman, who plays his son was 45 years, only 5 years younger. Matthaus stepdaughter Lucy Saroyan played the character of Sissy.

The film opened on 17 September 1971 in the American cinema. With a production budget of 1.5 million U.S. dollars, he played in the U.S. More than 3.3 million and nearly 1.4 million overseas again. In order for a profit of just over $ 330,000 was generated. In East Germany the film was first aired on October 23, 1978 to DFF 1 and in the Federal Republic of Germany on May 7, 1982 in ARD.

Criticism

Vincent Canby of The New York Times saw in the film a "beautiful sentimental what- if - comedy". He praised Matthau, the " games as possible with as little Attitude " his character and criticized Lemmon's directorial debut. Because of this make of the story too little and is almost " respectable, if not depressing. "

Although the renowned film critic Roger Ebert guess the actor, he said that he simply could not take seriously the figure constellation. While all the other "simple and one-dimensional parodies " are, WOULD his character much to "complete, knowledgeable and welcoming. " He also criticized Lemmon as a director, because all the things making up to him as an actor, he lacked as a director, besides " many dozens small things " especially" his sense of humor. "

The lexicon of the International film saw in the movie " one supported by insightful humor comedy with melancholy undertones about the difficulties of growing old, loneliness, sense of responsibility and solidarity. Thanks to the Art Walter Matthau, despite formal defects worth seeing. "

Awards

  • Best Actor: Nomination for Walter Matthau
  • Best Editing: Nomination for Ralph E. Winters
  • Best Song: Nomination for " Life Is What You Make It " ( Marvin Hamlisch and Johnny Mercer )
  • Best Sound: Nomination for Richard Portman and Jack Solomon
  • Best Original Song: "Life Is What You Make It " ( Marvin Hamlisch and Johnny Mercer )
  • Nomination for Best Picture - Comedy or Musical
  • Best Actor - Comedy or Musical: Nomination for Walter Matthau
  • Best Screenplay: Nomination for John Paxton
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