Hudson Hawk DVD 1991 / Directed by Michael Lehmann / Starring: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, Richard E. Grant, Sandra Bernhard, Donald Burton, James Coburn

UPC 5999010443271

REGION 2 PAL DVD  

MADE IN HUNGARY

AUDIO: ENGLISH 2.1, FRENCH 2.1, GERMAN 2.1, ITALIAN 2.1, SPANISH 2.1

SUBTITLES: HUNGARIAN, ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, POLISH, CZECH, HINDI, TURKISH, ARABIC, DANISH, SWEDISH, FINNISH, ICELANDIC, DUTCH, NORVEGIAN, PORTUGUESE, GREEK, HEBREW, SPANISH, ITALIAN

Total Runtime: 96 minutes

English Summary:

Hudson Hawk is a 1991 American action comedy film directed by Michael Lehmann. Bruce Willis stars in the title role and also co-wrote both the story and the theme song. Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, James Coburn, David Caruso, Lorraine Toussaint, Frank Stallone, Sandra Bernhard and Richard E. Grant are also featured. It was a box office bomb, losing the studio nearly $50 million.

The live action film employs cartoon-style slapstick heavily, including sound effects, which enhances the movie's signature surreal humour. The plot combines material based on conspiracy theories, secret societies, and historic mysteries, as well as outlandish "clockpunk" technology à la Coburn's Our Man Flint movies of the 1960s.

A recurring plot device in the film has Hudson and his partner Tommy "Five-Tone" (Aiello) singing songs concurrently but separately, to time and synchronize their exploits. Willis-Aiello duets of Bing Crosby's "Swinging on a Star" and Paul Anka's "Side by Side" are featured on the film's soundtrack.

Plot

Eddie "Hudson Hawk" Hawkins (Bruce Willis)—"Hudson Hawk" is a nickname for the bracing winds off the Hudson River—is a master catburglar and safe-cracker, attempting to celebrate his first day of parole from prison with a cappuccino. Before he can get it, he is blackmailed by various entities, including his own parole officer, a minor Mafia family headed by the Mario Brothers, and the CIA into doing several dangerous art heists with his singing partner in crime, Tommy "Five-Tone" Messina (Danny Aiello).

The holders of the puppet strings turn out to be a "psychotic American corporation", Mayflower Industries, run by husband and wife Darwin (Richard E. Grant) and Minerva Mayflower (Sandra Bernhard) and their blade-slinging butler, Alfred (Donald Burton). The company, headquartered in the Esposizione Universale Roma, seeks to take over the world by reconstructing La Macchina dell'Oro, a machine purportedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci (Stefano Molinari) that converts lead into gold. A special assembly of crystals needed for the machine to function are hidden in a variety of Leonardo's artworks: the maquette of the Sforza, the Da Vinci Codex, and a scale model of DaVinci's helicopter design. Sister Anna Baragli (Andie MacDowell) is an operative for a secretive Vatican counter-espionage agency, which has arranged with the CIA to assist in the Roman portion of Hawk's mission, though apparently intending all along to foil the robbery at St. Peter's Basilica.

Hungarian Summary:

Hudson Hawk - Egy mestertolvaj aranyat ér (Hudson Hawk) egy 1991-es amerikai akció-vígjáték, Andie MacDowell és Bruce Willis főszereplésével. A filmet korának egyik legnagyobb veszteségét elkönyvelt filmjeként tartották számon: a bekerülési költségeknek nagyjából mindössze az ötöde jött vissza, emiatt a filmet legyártó TriStar Pictures csődbe is jutott.

Napjainkban a film megítélése sokkal jobb lett már és inkább pozitívan fogadják, mint afféle jól sikerült rossz filmet, amely képes fenntartani a figyelmet és nem kevés élményt nyújt a megtekintése. Sokat nyom a latban, hogy Willis is McDowell a főszereplő. Bár a másik szereplő James Coburn is színészlegenda, de karakterének kidolgozottsága nem teljes, ennek ellenére mégis magával ragadó, mely magától értetődően a színész tehetségének tudható be. Éppúgy Richard E. Grant vagy David Caruso is figyelemre méltó alakítást nyújtanak, de Willis túlságosan beleszólt a forgatókönyv írásába és saját szerepének jelentőségét próbálta kiemelni a többiek rovására. Részben emiatt sem lett túl sikeres a film, amellyel valamennyi színész és az alkotó is roppant elégedetlen volt. McDowell és Grant a mai napig legszörnyűbb szerepének tekinti a Hudson Hawkban nyújtott alakítását és nehéz emlékeket őriznek róla.

Magyarországi bemutató: 1991. szeptember 6.

Cast / Szereplők:

• Bruce Willis as Eddie Hawkins/Hudson Hawk
• Danny Aiello as Tommy "Five-Tone" Messina
• Andie MacDowell as Anna Baragli
• James Coburn as George Kaplan
• Sandra Bernhard as Minerva Mayflower
• Richard E. Grant as Darwin Mayflower
• Donald Burton as Alfred
• Andrew Bryniarski as Butterfinger
• David Caruso as Kit Kat
• Lorraine Toussaint as Almond Joy
• Don Harvey as Snickers
• Doug Martin as Igg
• Steve Martin as Ook
• Leonardo Cimino as The Cardinal
• Frank Stallone as Cesar Mario
• Carmine Zozzara as Antony Mario
• Enrico Lo Verso as Apprentice
• Courtenay Semel as Bratty girl in museum
• Frank Welker as Bunny the Dog (voice)
• William Conrad as The Narrator