The In-Laws (2003/I)

Regisseur:

Andrew Fleming

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Andrew Bergman (screenplay)
Nat Mauldin (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

23. Mai 2003 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Komödie | Thriller

Werbezeile:

The cake is going to hit the fan

Plot:

Right before his daughter's wedding, a mild-mannered foot doctor discovers that his new in-laws are international smugglers.

Plot Keywords:

Gay Kiss | Jump From Height | Fanny Pack | Remake | Slapstick

Nutzerkommentare:

Welcome To My World Said The Agent To The Podiatrist

Besetzung

Michael Douglas	...	Steve Tobias
Michael Bodnar	...	Cherkasov's Bodyguard
Vladimir Radian	...	Cherkasov
Robin Tunney	...	Angela Harris
Albert Brooks	...	Jerry Peyser
Boyd Banks	...	Patient
Susan Aceron	...	Nurse
Lindsay Sloane	...	Melissa Peyser
Maria Ricossa	...	Katherine Peyser
Ryan Reynolds	...	Mark Tobias
Chang Tseng	...	Quan Le
Tamara Gorski	...	Yadira
Matt Birman	...	Agent at Restaurant
A. Russell Andrews	...	Agent Will Hutchins (as Russell Andrews)
Richard Waugh	...	Agent Thorn

Alternativ:

The Wedding Party (USA) (working title)
Till Death Do Us Part (USA) (working title)
Ungleiches Paar, Ein (Deutschland)
Wild Wedding - Ein ungleiches Paar (Deutschland) (DVD title)
Ungleiches Paar - Der eine hart, der andere zart, Ein (Österreich) [de]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for suggestive humor, language, some drug references and action violence.

Länge:

USA:98 Min

Produktionsland:

USA | Deutschland

Sprache:

Englisch | Französisch | Mandarin

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

DTS | Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

USA:PG-13 (certificate #39788) | Netherlands:6 | Iceland:12 (video rating) | South Korea:12 | Venezuela:PG-13 | Iceland:L | Finland:K-11 | Argentina:Atp | Australia:M | Canada:PG | Germany:12 | Ireland:12 | New Zealand:M | Norway:11 | Philippines:PG-13 | Singapore:PG | Spain:7 | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12A

Drehorte:

Cambridge, Ontario, Canada

Firma:

Franchise Pictures

Dies und das:

Originally released to the public in trailers and previews as The Wedding Party in early 2003, and yet was touted as a remake of The In-Laws (1979). Eventually the film was renamed.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: When Steve and Jerry are on the plane to France, the clock next to Jerry reads 7:10. However, in the next shot during the same conversation the clock reads 12:00.

Dialogzitate:

Angela Harris: We've got the FBI on us like trailer trash on Velveeta.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweist auf/spielt an auf/erwähnt My Best Friend's Wedding (1997)

Soundtrack:

Will Hunting (Main Titles)

Welcome To My World Said The Agent To The Podiatrist

Judging by reviews in the press and the user comments here, this version of The In-Laws is a pale imitation of the 1979 classic with Peter Falk and Alan Arkin. I didn't find it so, this film has a lot of good laughs in it and some fine comic performances.

In his TCM tribute to his father Michael Douglas says that when he was starting out in the picture business he avoided taking roles as action heroes because he did not want comparison with his father. At this point though he's definitely not worried about that. The part that Michael Douglas plays, the CIA agent whose life prevents him from having any kind of home life that was done by Peter Falk in the original, I could easily see being done by Kirk Douglas in the Forties or Fifties.

Douglas's son Ryan Reynolds is going to marry Lindsay Thorne the daughter of a mild mannered podiatrist who has more phobias going on than Adrian Monk. But Albert Brooks as the podiatrist is just a little concerned about this mysterious father of the groom that keeps avoiding meeting. When Brooks and family eventually do meet Douglas, he bungles his way into a mission that Douglas is on. After that it's one wild ride from Chicago to Paris and back with both bad guys and the FBI trailing both.

The In-Laws has some very nice moments and the stars work well together. But the best performances are from David Suchet as the international arms trafficker who's gay and who Douglas convinces that Brooks is a regular Dirk Diggler. And the other great performance is from Candice Bergen who is Douglas's estranged wife and Reynolds mother. As she says she's the only one who really has her husband's number, but she's still crazy about him in certain ways.

This version of The In-Laws is an amusing comedy, a worthy next century successor to the original.