Ja zuster, nee zuster (2002)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Pieter Kramer

Writers:

Harry Bannink (writer)
Frank Houtappels (writer)

Release Date:

23 October 2002 (Belgium)

Genre:

Comedy | Musical

Plot:

The film is a cheerful stylised musical comedy a la 8 femmes. The story happens in the guesthouse of sister Klivia in one of the Dutch towns...

Plot Keywords:

Grandpa | Dancing In The Rain | Pigeon | Police | Barbershop

Awards:

3 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Loes Luca	...	Sister Klivia
Paul Kooij	...	Neighbour Boordevol
Tjitske Reidinga	...	Jet
Waldemar Torenstra	...	Gerrit
Paul de Leeuw	...	Wouter
Beppe Costa	...	Engineer
Edo Brunner	...	Bertus
Lennart Vader	...	Bobby
Frits Lambrechts	...	Opa
Olga Zuiderhoek	...	Rechter
Arjan Ederveen	...	Choreographer
Pierre van Duijl	...	Greek
Guus Dam	...	Agent 1
Joep Onderdelinden	...	Agent 2
Ad Knippels	...	SRV Boss

Also Known As:

Yes Nurse! No Nurse! (International: English title) (USA)

Runtime:

Germany:100 min (Berlin Film Festival) | USA:100 min

Country:

Netherlands

Language:

Dutch

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:AL

Company:

Bos Bros. Film & TV Productions

Goofs:

Anachronisms: Although the movie is set in the '60s, you can see a present day cat food tin when Ingenieur feeds his pill to Boordevol's cat.

Movie Connections:

References "Ja zuster, nee zuster: Ja Gerrit nee Gerrit (#2.8)" (1968)

Soundtrack:

Ladumaar meneer

Fun entertainment for the entire family.

It's kind of funny, in America and other countries this movie is very popular by homosexual people (the DVD release there even has a pink cover), while in The Netherlands this movie is regarded as a children's movie based on a '60's almost entirely lost (tapes were too expensive in the '60's for the Dutch broadcasting stations that other material was recorded over the original tapes.) TV-series that was made for the entire family.

This movie is made in the same style as those campy, over-the-top American musical movies such as "Singin' in the Rain" and "An American in Paris". So fans of those types of movies will already be delighted by this movie. Further more this movie also reminded me of those old MGM comedies from the '30's and '40's.I have to admit that I'm not really a big fan of musicals. Why? Because normally a musical movie features about maybe 2 good songs and the rest is absolute fodder. I however enjoyed every musical number in "Ja zuster, nee zuster", not only because most songs are very well known old sing-along-songs written by Annie M.G. Schmidt and composer Harry Bannink but also because they have a very high fun-level. The musical numbers are so ridiculously over-the-top that they become fun to listen to and definitely watch at.

The story really isn't the most essential part of the movie. This is one of those movies that really don't need a story at all. This movie is all about the atmosphere and the characters that are in it. The typical '60's atmosphere this movie is set in is truly notable in the houses and their interiors and the characters are highly fun. Normally Dutch movies have the tendency to put as many as possible famous Dutch names in a movie as possible. The cast of "Ja zuster, nee zuster" mainly consists out of fairly unknown actors (with the exception of Loes Luca, Paul de Leeuw and some actors in small cameo roles) which I absolutely applaud.

Especially to you Americans, don't let the pink movie cover scare you off! I can assure you as a straight adult male person that this movie is good, clean, entertaining fun for the entire family.

9/10