The Bachelor (1999 film)

The Bachelor ( Original title: The Bachelor) is an American comedy film from the year 1999 was directed by Gary Sinyor, the screenplay was written by Steve Cohen on the basis of the play Seven Chances of Roi Cooper Megrue. . The film stars Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger.

The play Seven Chances ( Alternative: Buster Keaton, the man with the 1000 brides ) was in 1925 under the title of a film. The main roles were played by Buster Keaton and Ruth Dwyer, and directed by Buster Keaton.

Action

Who lives in San Francisco Jimmie Shannon makes his girlfriend Anne Arden to marry him. She thinks he's not mature enough to marry. Anne rejected the request and leaves the city.

Shortly thereafter dies Jimmie grandfather, who leaves behind a fortune worth about 100 million U.S. dollars. Jimmie is to inherit the money on the condition that he married until his 30th birthday. Since it is the day before this date and Anne can not reach, he asks the former girlfriends if they would marry him. Most, including a police officer and a student, this reject strictly. The last demand Buckley Hale -Windsor agrees at first, for their impoverished family from the upper class she wants to make sacrifices. Then she learns that one of the conditions Testament to have children within five years. This clause also discourages them from.

Jimmie talks about marriage to a priest friend who was married for many years before he became a widower, to clerics. The priest shows Jimmie the photo of his youngest grandchild. This changes Jimmies attitude towards the family.

A friend of the desperate Jimmie wants to announce publicly in a newspaper ad that Shannon is looking for a wife. The case is described in an article on the front page, hundreds of women in white wedding dresses login. Shannon frightened and fled, the women chasing him through San Francisco. Anne comes back to town in time to reach Jimmie and to marry him.

Reviews

  • William Arnold wrote in the newspaper Seattle Post -Intelligencer of 5 November 1999, the film would be a waste of time. He criticized that the movie Chris O'Donnell co-produced, would put the actor too much in the center. The representation of Renée Zellweger he described as incompetent.

" Uninspired romantic comedy with a wooden acting protagonist, the loveless unwinds the usual stereotypes. "

"Unfortunately, the joke about the groom stopped working against his will today, even if the potential spouses are trying to date pierced or bisexual. And given the dialogues one wishes back the silent film era. "

"Fresh and surprisingly full of ideas at the beginning, turns out, The Bachelor ' than those of standard fare that you could anyway suspect in this topic. Sympathetic performer and some good ideas to save the bachelor therefore not fall into the typical Komödienklamauk of the danger in the course of the action. "

Others

  • Some of the brides at the end of the film were men dressed because not enough women were available
  • One of the brides mentioned that she had been in Princeton, where Brooke Shields had studied. Brooke Shields plays Buckley
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