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The Upside(Movie, 2017)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 6min | Genres: Comedy, Drama
The UpsideRating: 3.6/5 (with 550550 votes)
The Upside is a 2017 American comedy-drama film directed by Neil Burger, written by Jon Hartmere. It is a remake of the French 2011 film The Intouchables, which was itself inspired by the lives of Abdel Sallou and Philippe Pozzo di Borgo. The film follows a paralyzed billionaire (Bryan Cranston) who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a recently paroled convict (Kevin Hart) whom he hires to take care of him. Nicole Kidman, Golshifteh Farahani, and Julianna Margulies also star. It is the third remake of The Intouchables after the Indian film Oopiri, and the Argentinian film Inseparables (2016). An English-language remake was first announced in July 2011. Numerous actors were rumored to star, including Chris Rock, Idris Elba, Colin Firth and Jessica Chastain, and different dir... ()
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Available languages: German, Spanish, Italian, Spanish (Latin American Spanish), English, Polish, Japanese, Portuguese, French
Available subtitles: German, Arabic, Czech, Danish, English, Spanish (Latin American Spanish), Spanish, Finnish, Tagalog / Filipino, French, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese, Romanian, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Chinese (Mandarin) (Simplified Chinese), Chinese (Mandarin)
Duration: 2h 6min
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About The Upside

Phillip is a wealthy quadriplegic who needs a caretaker to help him with his day-to-day routine in his New York penthouse. He decides to hire Dell, a struggling parolee who's trying to reconnect with his ex and his young son. Despite coming from two different worlds, an unlikely friendship starts to blossom.

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Additional Information

Production country: United States of America (USA)
Based on: "The Intouchables" (movie, 2011)
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 31 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Estonian (ET), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Croatian (HR), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Georgian (KA), Korean (KO), Lithuanian (LT), Latvian (LV), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Slovenian (SL), Serbian (SR), Swedish (SV), Thai (TH), Turkish (TR), Ukrainian (UK), Vietnamese (VI), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 02/21/2019 (World premiere: 01/10/2019)
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Amigos por siempre"
"Sous un autre jour"
"Sempre Amici"
"1+1. Голливудская история [The Upside (2018)]"
"The Intouchables"
"The Untouchables"
"Untouchable"

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:4227, Added: 02/14/2018, Last updated: 03/22/2024