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Titolo originale: The Real Howard Spitz

1998
PG
1h 42min

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5,6/10

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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaHoward Spitz is a cranky, has-been detective novelist out of money and out of luck - until he meets eight-year-old Samantha, who convinces him he has what it takes to write children's books.Howard Spitz is a cranky, has-been detective novelist out of money and out of luck - until he meets eight-year-old Samantha, who convinces him he has what it takes to write children's books.Howard Spitz is a cranky, has-been detective novelist out of money and out of luck - until he meets eight-year-old Samantha, who convinces him he has what it takes to write children's books.

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Distributors Metrodome were hugely reluctant to give the film a cinema release in the UK as the film only did average business at the North American box office and, as a small company, they wanted to keep their overheads to a minimum by selling the film to the foreign home rental market and make deals for television broadcast rights. However English director Vadim Jean , whilst understanding the business logic, felt a little short-changed as he made the film for cinema release and wanted to see it given some kind of theatrical release in his home country, not only for the sake of his own conscience but to show off to family and friends. Therefore he struck a deal with Metrodome where if they gave him a period of grace, he would finance a small UK cinema release out of his own pocket. He argued that a small summer release in the UK would be a good time as there was nothing else showing other than big Hollywood blockbusters so there would be some screen availability for a family PG comedy and most of the other small scale independent films deliberately avoided that time of the year to avoid big Hollywood releases. Although they knew the film was never going to set the box office ablaze, Metrodome were struck by his honesty and passion so graciously agreed to his request. Jean paid for four film prints to be struck (at a cost of £1500 each) and the film was indeed given a tiny release in London in the late summer of 1998 and then toured around the country for a couple of months after.

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4/10

Really Strange Direction

This is a family movie that was broadcast on my local ITV station at 1.00 am a couple of nights ago . This might be a strange decision on the part of the schedulers but THE REAL HOWARD SPITZ is a rather strange film , strange in the way it doesn't want to upset its audience . Come on there's nothing kids like more than sadism and that's why Roald Dahl was such a popular author for children . It also explains why DOCTOR WHO was such a successful show across the world . In this screenplay you're just dying for pulp fiction author to do something nasty to the kids but this doesn't happen . I'm not advocating child abuse but to see Howard Spitz lose his rag at the little ones would have made the movie rather better . Can you imagine how much worse KINDERGARTEN COP would have been if the producers had gone all PC ? I mean if you're making a movie centered around a children's author who hates children shouldn't the story show and not tell ?

Much of the problem lies with director Vadim Jean and you do get the feeling he doesn't know how to handle the material which is bad news for the movie . As someone previously noted the soundtrack is haphazard and Kelsey Grammar is very wooden . I guess he was trying to play it dead pan just like in that show he's famous for but it fails to work here and there's many scenes with quiet ridiculous camera angles which seem unintentional but which are very distracting . But at the end of the day the main problem remains that the potential is ruined because no one wanted to offend the audiences sensibilities