It's "Pillow Talk"!!! Yes, the old movie with Rock Hudson and Doris Day! And the plot of this remake really isn't all that different from the original. In this 2002 version, the two protagonists also unwillingly share a phone line (a fault that the telephone company seems unable to correct), he's a raging womanizer, she's prim and proper and waiting for Mr. Right. And it continues just like the original: He approaches her under a false identity playing the perfect man, and - naturally - they fall for each other. Everything's peachy until he's found out. There's even the nice, chummy mutual friend. It's okay as a remake, but I feel the original screenwriter should have been given credit. It's so sad that German TV productions have to resort to plagiarism more and more often these days.
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Kein Mann für eine Nummer
(2002 TV Movie)
In case nobody noticed, this is a remake
9 August 2010
Warning: Spoilers
Unsre Mutter ist halt anders
(2003 TV Movie)
"Mermaids" in Germany
9 July 2009
I only watched this film, because I'm a fan of Martina Gedeck. Plotwise, this film is very similar to "Mermaids" from ca. 1991 with Cher and Winona Ryder. The main difference is that it plays in Germany and in the present instead of the 1960s. Other than that, the shoe store owner/ mother's boyfriend (Bob Hoskins in "Mermaids") owns a bar in this version (played by Richy Mueller), the mother is not a shoe seller but a hairdresser, again there are two daughters, and again the mother moves the family anytime there's a problem with her relationships or the like. There's zero originality, yet there's no nod to the "Mermaids" movie or the novel on which it was based. I don't think one can really call this an original screenplay. So, it's not a very interesting effort, which is too bad, because Martina Gedeck is still worth seeing - as she is in all of her films. Therefore, I'm still giving this non-original opus five points out of 10.
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