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A brilliant and outragously funny satire of society, 7 December 1999
Author: Dave Joerg (joerd000@mail.zdv.uni-mainz.de)
"Flodder" is one of the funniest movies ever made and few people realise that it is a Dutch movie made by none other than the Holland version of John Carpenter, the famous Dick Maas, author and director of the thriller "Amsterdamned". The Flodder family is the reincarnation of the term a-social. When the whole family bunch, basically all bastards, criminals and sluts must be relocated from their City slum because of toxic waste under their house, the city council house no choice. The only available space is in the "Zoendal" - the "Sun Valley" the best area in Amsterdam where all doctors, snobs and businessmen can afford to live their lives. And where the central point of interest and politics is the tennis club of the community. The Flodder family brings devastation to the tranquil world that ruled before. They are simply unbelievable. The characterisation is incredibly funny, beginning with Ma Flodder who searches other people's trash cans for food or making illegal liquor in her cellar and ending with the eldest daughter who is the biggest slut on earth. Together they make the most horrible family imaginable, a sort of immoral mirror image to the Brady Bunch or the Waltons. When the City counsel of Amsterdam hoped that the Flodders would show their good will to be more civilised in their new area, it turns out that Holland's most famous family would rather bring out the worst in the rich people of "Sun Valley"-wonderland. The rest is a hilarious, brilliant and well made social satire that can be watched as a provocative movie as well as a straightforward comedy. Dick Maas at his best. I salute him! Flooder was the Dutch smash hit in 1986 and brought two sequels and a tv series. All of the sequels were nice but not as great as the original.
Flodders (1986) is available on DVD in Germany in a dubbed German version in Dolby Digital 5.1. under the name:
"Flodders -Eine Familie zum knutschen"
Why is First Floor Features, the producer of the movie not bringing the Dick Maas blockbusters out on DVD in the Netherlands, I wonder. The are not even available on video there. These movies have so much potential, still to this day and have a huge silent but true following.
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一次偶然中,骗子德米特(约翰·库萨克 John Cusack 配音)遇见了安雅,并不知道安雅就是娜塔西娅公主的德米特决定让安雅假扮娜塔西娅,以骗取高额的赏金,在此过程中,两人之间却意外的产生了真挚的感情。一直以来,安雅都对自己的过去和身份耿耿于怀,这一次,她能够得到所谓的真相吗?
故事设定于上世纪60年代,琼斯博士(哈里森·福特 Harrison Ford 饰)即将迎来退休,但来访的故人之女海伦娜(菲比·沃勒-布里奇 Phoebe Waller-Bridge 饰)却打破了他平静的生活,后者希望和他一同寻找能够改变历史走向的宝物“命运转盘”,这也唤起了一段尘封已久的回忆。在二战末期,琼斯曾与纳粹争夺过“命运转盘”。宛如宿命一般,如今他再次被卷入“命运转盘”的争夺,而纳粹的残余势力也卷土重来,觊觎着这件宝物。