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Maybe... Maybe Not

Original title: Der bewegte Mann
  • 19941994
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  • 1h 33m
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6.5/10
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Maybe... Maybe Not (1994)
Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.
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Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.Thrown out by his girlfriend from her apartment, Axel lives for a while with Norbert, a gay man he met some days before.
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
6.2K
YOUR RATING
POPULARITY
45,922
1,323
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    • Director
      • Sönke Wortmann
    • Writers
      • Sönke Wortmann(screenplay)
      • Ralf König(comics "Der bewegte Mann" and "Pretty Baby")
    • Stars
      • Til Schweiger
      • Katja Riemann
      • Joachim Król
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Sönke Wortmann
    • Writers
      • Sönke Wortmann(screenplay)
      • Ralf König(comics "Der bewegte Mann" and "Pretty Baby")
    • Stars
      • Til Schweiger
      • Katja Riemann
      • Joachim Król
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 21User reviews
    • 19Critic reviews
    • Awards
      • 10 wins & 1 nomination

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    Til Schweiger and Joachim Król in Maybe... Maybe Not (1994)
    Til Schweiger, Joachim Król, and Katja Riemann in Maybe... Maybe Not (1994)
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    Til Schweiger
    Til Schweiger
    • Axel Feldheim
    Katja Riemann
    Katja Riemann
    • Doro Feldheim
    Joachim Król
    Joachim Król
    • Norbert Brommer
    Rufus Beck
    Rufus Beck
    • Waltraud
    Armin Rohde
    Armin Rohde
    • Metzger
    Nico van der Knaap
    • Fränzchen
    Antonia Lang
    • Elke Schmitt
    Martina Gedeck
    Martina Gedeck
    • Jutta
    Judith Reinartz
    • Claudia
    Kai Wiesinger
    Kai Wiesinger
    • Aufreißer
    Horst D. Scheel
    • Günter
    Christof Wackernagel
    • Rüdiger
    Martin Armknecht
    • Lutz
    Heinrich Schafmeister
    Heinrich Schafmeister
    • Klaus Dieter
    Helmut Buchel
    • Dirk
    • (as Helmut Büchel)
    Monty Arnold
    • Monty
    Hans Peter Reutter
    • Dr. Bertie
    Heinz Baumeister
    • Else
    • Director
      • Sönke Wortmann
    • Writers
      • Sönke Wortmann(screenplay)
      • Ralf König(comics "Der bewegte Mann" and "Pretty Baby")
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    • Trivia
      At the time of release, this was the biggest grossing homegrown film at the German box office. It was also the third-highest successful movie that year overall, after Forrest Gump (1994) and The Lion King (1994).
    • Quotes

      Doro Feldheim: [after hanged up the phone hearing a male voice] That was a man!

      Jutta: So, in addition she's married.

      Doro Feldheim: [hysterical] That was a homosexual guy!

    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Striptease/Cold Fever/The Nutty Professor/A Perfect Candidate/Maybe, Maybe Not (1996)
    • Soundtracks
      Ja und nein
      Music by Franz Grothe

      Lyrics by Willy Dehmel

      Performed by Palast Orchester featuring Max Raabe

    User reviews21

    Review
    Top review
    6/10
    American title: Maybe . . . Maybe Not
    There is only one reason to watch this film: sexy Til Schweiger. He has beauty and magnetism, besides being an extraordinary young actor with subtlety, understated power, and depth. Unfortunately, these qualities are all but lost in this heavy-handed comedy. It is beautifully shot but, considering its comedic intent, rather darkly so. The story and its underlying principles leave much to be desired.

    Handsome Axel (Schweiger) works in a 30's-style supper club, presumably to remind us of the wacky social farces of that period. Any illusions on that score end, however, when he gallantly accompanies an inviting woman into the bathroom for a quickie. His girlfriend Doro, in the next stall, informs him that they're through. Axel is a very pretty boy but, looking for a place to stay, he is rebuffed with varying degrees of vehemence by former girlfriends all too familiar with his womanizing. Alas, Axel's unfortunate coitus interruptus is the inauspicious high point of the movie, with the opening credits barely over.

    Axel is adopted by a group of 'thoughtful' gay men in his hour of need. Norbert, a middle-aged nebbish, gives him a place to stay in hopes that there is a 'maybe'. What ensues is a series of awkward and tasteless gags, mostly involving Axel's discomfort being around gays. Stereotypes abound, and no one comes off particularly well. The straight men are dorky, unattractive, and strangely mortified by the use of common euphemisms for breasts. The gay men are selfish, unattractive, and impossibly flamboyant (in case we miss the point). Doro is shrill, intolerant, and controlling. Axel is shallow, thoughtless, and virtually monosyllabic, but adorable .

    When Axel speaks of 'us normal men' we know where the film stands politically. The gay men appear in female attire much of the time, but speak in caricatured bass voices (in case we miss the point). Axel is deeply offended when cruised by a gay man in a gay disco; especially surprising as he asked the man for a light and directions to the bathroom, while hot, sweaty, and very sexy in a tight muscle shirt. 'Nuff said.

    The plot thickens – and so does the humor – when Doro finds that she is pregnant and decides to get Axel back. She finds him in her own bed with unsightly Norbert, disturbingly naked, in the middle of a very inept seduction. Despite this awkward reunion, Axel and Doro get married. Axel unceremoniously drops Norbert because his wife is 'allergic to gays' .

    The downward spiral continues unabated. Norbert, a strict vegetarian, hooks up with a repellent and humorless butcher, about whom the best one can say is that he has shaved every inch of his gross body. Axel cheats on Doro yet again, with a woman whose animal stimulants put him a coma. We finally hit rock bottom when Doro is bitch-slapped during one last bout of hysteria, and goes into labor. This is funny?

    Til Schweiger is scrumptious eye-candy, and looks stunning throughout the film in tight t-shirts, muscle shirts, open shirts, no shirt. Thank heavens for small mercies. But, in one unfortunate aesthetic choice after another, the odious older men appear in greater states of undress more often than the exquisite young man who makes this peculiar move worth watching.

    The ending has a nice feeling and suggests some reconciliation between Norbert and Axel. It's way too little, too late.
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    • May 20, 2007

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    • Release date
      • July 12, 1996 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • Germany
    • Language
      • German
    • Also known as
      • Pretty Baby
    • Filming locations
      • Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
    • Production companies
      • Constantin Film
      • Olga Film
      • Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $468,930
    • Gross worldwide
      • $468,930
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby SR
      • Dolby
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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