The Fisher King (1991)

Regisseur:

Terry Gilliam

Drehbuchautor (WGA):

Richard LaGravenese (written by)

Premierendatum:

20. September 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Komödie | Drama | Romanze

Werbezeile:

A Modern Day Tale About The Search For Love, Sanity, Ethel Merman And The Holy Grail.

Plot:

A radio DJ, suicidally despondent because of a horrible mistake he made, finds redemption in helping a deranged homeless man who was a victim of it.

Plot Keywords:

Black Comedy | Psychiatrist | Central Park Chase | Friendship | Alcoholism

Filmpreise:

Won Oscar. Another 10 wins & 17 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

The perfect Robin Williams movie (and much more)

Besetzung

Jeff Bridges	...	Jack Lucas
Robin Williams	...	Parry
Mercedes Ruehl	...	Anne Napolitano
Amanda Plummer	...	Lydia Sinclair
David Hyde Pierce	...	Lou Rosen (as David Pierce)
Adam Bryant	...	Radio engineer
Paul Lombardi	...	Radio engineer
Ted Ross	...	Limo bum
Lara Harris	...	Sondra
Warren Olney	...	TV anchorman
Frazer Smith	...	News reporter
Kathy Najimy	...	Crazed video customer
Harry Shearer	...	Sitcom actor Ben Starr
Melinda Culea	...	Sitcom wife
James Remini	...	Bum at hotel

Alternativ:

König der Fischer (Österreich) (Deutschland) [de]

Länge:

137 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (Technicolor)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:14 | South Korea:15 | Sweden:15 | Portugal:M/12 | Iceland:16 (video rating) | Germany:16 | Australia:M | Argentina:13 | Chile:14 | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Peru:14 | Spain:13 | UK:15 | USA:R | Norway:15

Drehorte:

101 Park Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Firma:

Columbia Pictures Corporation

Dies und das:

The Girl that Jack says might be able to help Parry to find the Holy Grail is named Lydia Sinclair. One of the legends about the grail is that it is buried under Rosslyn Chapel in Scotland which was built by the Sinclair clan. The name Sinclair comes back in several grail myths.

Pannen:

Audio-Visuelle Asynchronität: After the little quarrel with Anne, Jack gets a call. When he picks up the phone, it still keeps ringing for a short moment.

Dialogzitate:

Jack Lucas: It's important to think. It's what separates us from lentils.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in What the Pythons Did Next... (2007) (TV)

Soundtrack:

I Wish I Knew

The perfect Robin Williams movie (and much more)

This movie is really exceptional in a lot of ways. It's got one of those plots, full of ironic reversals and personal struggle, that's been turned into melodramatic trash in every creative medium ever invented. With Robin Williams as the magic crazy guy and Jeff Bridges in an 80s ponytail, the ways the basic concept could have gone awry (in other hands) are truly frightening to contemplate. But with Terry Gilliam at the helm, The Fisher King speaks to your emotions more directly and powerfully than 90% of the movies out there without degenerating into sappiness.

Perhaps the most brilliant acheivement of this movie is the way it takes Robin Williams' crazy-improvisational persona and makes it an integral part of the story. Instead of being a tacked-on adjunct to the "real" movie, Williams' stream-of-consciousness patter is essential to the work as a whole.

At the same time, Gilliam is making an almost-mainstream movie for the first time in his career, while explicitly referencing his past (the Holy Grail). It all comes together into a movie you will never forget.