![]() Unlike West Germans, of course, they know no English, and much of the film’s humor relies on inevitable but tediously obvious linguistic misunderstandings.Įventually Tom and Veit run, rather improbably, into a beautiful German-speaking girl on their long and financially-challenged trek across America, and this allows for the welcome expansion of the road-movie into more romantic territory, before we have completely tired of the high-jinks of the two young men. There are the tough bikers, the fat waitress with the heart of gold, vicious cops and seemingly vicious black ladycops who turn sweet, marijuana-induced laughing jags, southern beauty queens who say things like “I didn’t even know there were two Germanies,” plus lots of contention about the boys’ status as communists, whom all Americans are raised to hate. Tom, his best friend, decides to tag along.įrom that moment on, every European cliche about America (both the negative and the positive ones) is trotted out in a nice, neat row. Then, when the Berlin wall collapses in 1989, Veit announces that his goal is to travel to San Francisco to find the father who escaped from East Germany years earlier. To both, the communist system they have grown up under has always seemed ridiculous, but having had nothing to compare it to, they never knew why. ![]() Tom and Veit have been close friends since meeting in grade school.
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