Unsre Mutter ist halt anders

Name: Unsre Mutter ist halt anders
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2003-10-07
Rating: 5.5
Cast: Martina Gedeck, Richy Müller, Tobias Retzlaff

TV Movie
2003

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5.5/10

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Comedy

Thirtysomething Paula lives like a crazy teenager. Nothing in her life lasts longer than some months: no job, no residence and no man. Although she is a caring and open-minded mother, her da... Read allThirtysomething Paula lives like a crazy teenager. Nothing in her life lasts longer than some months: no job, no residence and no man. Although she is a caring and open-minded mother, her daughters Fidelia, 15, and Lisa, 12, can't stand the permant moves any more. After another d... Read allThirtysomething Paula lives like a crazy teenager. Nothing in her life lasts longer than some months: no job, no residence and no man. Although she is a caring and open-minded mother, her daughters Fidelia, 15, and Lisa, 12, can't stand the permant moves any more. After another disastrous relationship they settle down in Landshut and try to start a new life again. Whi... Read all

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5/10

"Mermaids" in Germany

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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