2 Days in New York (2012)

Manhattan couple Marion and Mingus, who each have children from prior relationships, find their comfortable family dynamic jostled by a visit from Marion's relatives.

Director:

Julie Delpy

Writers:

Julie Delpy (scenario), Alexia Landeau (scenario),

Stars:

Chris Rock, Julie Delpy, Albert Delpy

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Chris Rock	...	Mingus
Julie Delpy	...	Marion
Albert Delpy	...	Jeannot
Alexia Landeau	...	Rose
Alexandre Nahon	...	Manu (as Alex Nahon)
Kate Burton	...	Bella
Dylan Baker	...	Ron
Daniel Brühl	...	The Oak Fairy
Talen Ruth Riley	...	Willow (as Talen Riley)
Owen Shipman	...	Lulu
Malinda Williams	...	Elizabeth
Carmen Lopez	...	Julia
Emily Wagner	...	Susan
Arthur French	...	Lee Robinson
Petronia Paley	...	Carol Robinson

Storyline

Marion (Delpy) has broken up with Jack (Two Days in Paris) and now lives in New York with their child. But when her family decides to come visit her, she's unaware that the different cultural background held by her new American boyfriend Mingus (Rock), her eccentric father, and her sister Rose who decided to bring her ex-boyfriend along for the trip, added to her upcoming photo exhibition, will make up for an explosive mix.

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Plot Keywords:

photo exhibition | french stereotype | father daughter relationship | belief in the soul | radio host | 

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Genres:

Comedy

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for language, sexual content, some drug use and brief nudity

Details

Official Sites:

Official site Official site [jp]

Country:

France Germany Belgium

Language:

English French Italian

Release Date:

28 March 2012 (France)

Also Known As:

2 Dias em Nova Iorque

Filming Locations:

Belvedere Castle, Central Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Box Office

Opening Weekend:

$23,942 (USA) (10 August 2012)

Gross:

$632,824 (USA) (9 November 2012)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Polaris Films, Tempête Sous un Crâne, Senator Film Produktion

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Julie Delpy wrote the role of Mingus specifically for Chris Rock.

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Quotes

Marion: If you live your life with one person only, one day they'll be gone or you'll be gone. And one of you will be left in the cold world. The family we are born in eventually vanishes. By then you have created your own family if you're lucky. First you have to choose the person you'll build this family with, and stick to it as much as possible. How many tries do you get before you strike out? When my mother died, just a few hours before the end, she looked in my eyes and had the expression of a ...

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Connections

Follows 2 Days in Paris (2007)

User Reviews

A pathetic and insane series of clichés about French (dirty, ill-mannered and so on...). Shameful !

Oh my god. It's one of the worst movies I've ever seen in 30 years. What is very rare with me, I wanted to leave the theatre quickly after the beginning of the movie. The last time it happened to me it was 30 years ago, I was about 14. But this time, for the first time in my life, I left the movie theatre one half hour before the end, because I couldn't stand it any longer.

I saw that movie because one of my colleagues like "2 days in Paris", and this one was its sequel.

Right from the beginning, I was dismayed by the vulgarity of the movie. The character played by the french actor July Delpy (who is also the director of the movie) is vulgar and insane, telling with crude words her whole sexual life to one of her colleague.

But the worst came after : her french family came in New-York to visit her and her husband. Her father doesn't want to take a shower more than once a week, he was arrested at the airport because he had a lot of french sausages hidden under his clothes. Her sister and her sisters' partner are sex-addicts and drug users. The whole family is a bunch of asocial, immoral, ill-mannered and childish people.

Well, one could say : it's just a farce. But the problem is that it's not shown like that. They seemed to be a typical french family, a kind of primitive tribe coming in a civilized world, the US.

I didn't expect to see that kind of french-bashing coming from a french director. But True, Julie Delpy left France a long time ago and live in the US since many years now. Seeing that movie, I understand why : she seems to despise her former country and her former fellow citizens.

I can imagine some US french-haters seeing that movie in the US, laughing loudly, and thinking : "I always knew that the french were like that, and it's a french who tells us, so it must be true !" I felt insulted, as if mrs Delpy had spit on my face. I'm not chauvinistic, but I don't like to be insulted, as anybody else I think.