Dutch (1991)

Director:

Peter Faiman

Guionista (WGA):

John Hughes (written by)

Release Date:

19 julio 1991 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Frase comercial:

They're the best of friends... And they've got the scars to prove it.

Plot:

To get to know his girlfriend's son, a man volunteers to pick him up from a prep school....only to learn that her son's not the nicest kid.

Plot Keywords:

Hit On Head | Prostitute | Mother Son Relationship | Road Trip | Fireworks

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

I can do something you can't...pay for my breakfast...

Cast

Ed O'Neill	...	Dutch Dooley
Ethan Embry	...	Doyle Standish (as Ethan Randall)
JoBeth Williams	...	Natalie Standish
Christopher McDonald	...	Reed Standish
Ari Meyers	...	Brock
Elizabeth Daily	...	Hailey (as E.G. Daily)
L. Scott Caldwell	...	Homeless Woman
Kathleen Freeman	...	Gritzi
Lisa Figus	...	Party Woman
Cedering Fox	...	Party Woman
Shelby Leverington	...	Party Woman
Kyle Fredericks	...	Maid
David James Alexander	...	Man #1
Ross Borden	...	Man #2
Joe Baker	...	Party Butler

También conocida como:

Driving Me Crazy
Tu novio huele mal (Spain) [es]

Duración:

107 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Australia:M | Finland:K-8 | Germany:12 | Singapore:NC-16 | Spain:T | Sweden:11 | USA:PG-13

Filming Locations:

Berry College - 2277 Martha Berry Highway, Rome, Georgia, USA

Company:

Hughes Entertainment

Trivialidades:

Prior to filming, director Peter Faiman and writer/producer John Hughes and producer Richard Vane took a road trip throughout the Georgia, The Carolina's (North and South), Mississippi and Tennessee to scout the route the film's characters, Dutch Dooley and Doyle would take to drive back home to Chicago for Thanksgiving. Faiman liked most of the places that he'd seen during the trip and they ended up in final film.

Goofs:

Factual errors: In the car trip at night when Doyle and Dutch are arguing over the radio, the power window and power seat switches are in the wrong position on their car. The Lincoln Town Car had these switches on the front doors, not on the center console, as these cars were six-seater cars.

Quotes:

Doyle: You still gonna shoot me in the ass?
Dutch: [smiling] Yes.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Married with Children: England Show I (#6.24)" (1992)

Soundtrack:

Beyond The Blue Horizon

I can do something you can't...pay for my breakfast...

Although it has similarities to 'Trains, Planes and Automobiles', it is absolutely original. The two lead characters work so well together and off one another that it's hard to remember sometimes, Ethan Randall is just acting.

Basic Plot: Dutch (O'Neil), is dating a beautiful rich woman who is going through a separation with her well-to-do husband. She has a son named Doyle (Randall), who attends a boarding school far enough away from home, he has been requested to come home for Thanksgiving, by plane. He declines, and refuses to see his mother for the holidays. Instead of getting upset, she sends her, 'heart's bigger than his brain' for a boyfriend by car to go get her hurtful son. Once he arrives, he finds that this twelve year old is more problem than expected, and the road-trip that leads them from where they began to where they end up, is a truly heart-warming and funny story.

Hughes brings us characters in this that make you feel for them all. As in all of his films, for the most part, but to a certain degree even more so in this. A gradual escalation from hateful to loving, from cold to warm, and from angry to happy. It's most assuredly one of the best scripts ever written.

I give it a 9 out of 10 (10 being the highest). I don't give it a full ten, because there are some slow scenes, I could have done without, but they do help the movie keep its sincerity.

And that's my review.