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Full House (1987)
A real family show
I have never seen the whole series (I usually happened upon it when it was running about halfway...), but I have loved since the first time I saw it.
Danny Tanner, father of three girls and a job as a sports commentator, has just lost his wife in a car accident, and is now compelled to raise his three daughters (about 10, 5 and 0 years old) alone. Luckily he gets help from his brother in law Jesse Katsopolis (why did he have another last name in the beginning?) and his all time friend Joey. Jesse is a super Elvisfan and hoping to become a rock star himself, but in the meantime he works in his father's "pest control specialist" company. Joey is a stand up comedian, but mainly without a job, it seems, and very good in imitating people and animals and all kind of cartoon characters. And Danny is a somewhat annoying cleaning freak, but I must say I find him so much more sympathetic as Danny Tanner than as himself as host of America's Funniest Home Video's!
The Tannerfamily & Co live happily ever after, but with all the kind of small and bigger problems that one can see in an average family. Kids fighting and teasing each other, not willing to do their chores, and all the things their parents/guardians have to come up with to get them to do what THEY want (mostly the right thing). I have seen comments talking about this show as unrealistic, but I find it quite the opposite. It shows how a normal family OUGHT to live together, seeking problems to be solved, and no matter how much we fight, we love each other.
No violence, no swearing, no sex... If you want your kids to grow up like normal people, with respect for others and with honourable values, then this is the show to let them watch. You don't even have to watch it with them if it's inconvenient, but in that case you'd be missing out on a lot!
Das doppelte Lottchen (1950)
This is the real one!!!
There have been many remakes of this movie, mainly in the US and in Germany, but this is the one and only real one!!! Following the book line by line, even the authors comments (given by the author Erich Kästner himself in the movie!) on what is happening, the story is highly enjoyable and more than touching!
Set in Austria/southern Germany in the beginning fifties, the story about the unhappy divorce of the famous musician and conductor Ludwig Palffy and the hardworking (at that time!!!) mother/journalist Louiselotte Körner is ever so realistic. Don't let yourself being prejudiced by it's old appearance; this movie is worth watching! Sentiments and misunderstandings, a laugh and a cry, everything comes up. Here, the switch is kept up for at least a couple of weeks, with all the difficult situations to master. In the later movies, like the latest Parent Trap, how funny and nice that one is, the exchange doesn't last more than a few days. But these original Lotte and Louise had a REALLY hard time, keeping it up so long!
To me, all the main characters are sympathetic, and that's a must in a movie like this. You really want them to get together again, and are so happy when they finally manage! With, as a symbol, Palffy's atelier moved to the condo next door, instead of somewhere else in the city.
The only real minus is the fact that the twins Louise and Lotte don't really look alike. It's quite easy to tell them apart, and therefore rather strange that nobody notices. Their acting isn't all that fantastic either, but on the whole this movie is - at least in my opinion - the best parenttrapmovie ever made.