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...film centers on the experience of young East Berliner Alex Kerner, played by wide-eyed 24-year-old Daniel Brühl. After fainting during the Berlin riots, Alex??s mother (Katrin Sass) enters a deep coma for several months. As she recovers slowly, Alex enters into a relationship with her nurse Lara (Chulpan Khamatova), a humbly beautiful and patient woman. Upon his mother’s release, the doctor cautions Alex that he must insulate her from any shocks, because a stressful event could kill her. Since his mother was fiercely loyal to the idealism...
...Alex starts working for a West German TV company he becomes friends with his co-worker Denis (Florian Lukas), a budding filmmaker with grandiose dreams of success. In one hilarious scene, he shows Alex a wedding video he made in which he imitates a famous cut from 2001. When Alex??s mother wants to watch television, Alex and Denis film hours of fake news footage to reassure her that change is not coming too quickly into her comfortable world. When she notices a banner for Coca-Cola being hung on a nearby building, Alex, barely missing a beat...
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...with taking a political stance. Politics were always subordinate to family, a message reinforced by the producers’ decision to replace the original opening credits, a series of photographs from Elyse and Steven’s hippie days, with a painted portrait of the family. When Steven interrupts Alex??s prom at an elitist country club to protest the club’s policies, Alex imparts some perspective: “Dad, I’m 17. When I see Kimberly Blanton in a strapless gown, I don’t look past her for the Bill...
...sell short the rare charisma that oozed from the pores of Michael J. Fox, now and forever Alex P. Keaton. People tuning in to “Family Ties” repeats are nostalgic not merely for legwarmers and Watergate humor, but for the boy Fox once was. Alex??s eagerness to grow up is now steeped in tragic irony, as his real-life counterpart is stricken with Parkinson’s disease, an disorder that usually afflicts people decades older...