A fake kidnapping goes hilariously wrong when actual crooks crash the party.
Lydia and Vincent Lufft adopted the now 10-year-old Marie, so Vincent has better career prospects at the very child-friendly Henderson Games. But Marie forges with her friend Nick a plan: they want to fake a kidnapping to get away from the adoptive parents. To find the alleged abducted Marie Max Hoch, expert of a security company, consulted. Max himself does not want to have children unlike his girlfriend. He soon finds out that the abduction can only be faked. However, when Heinz Michelin, a friend of the family who wants to pay Marie's debt back with the reward, urges to help with the kidnapping, he brings with him two real hijackers. Max brings Marie to his unsuspecting girlfriend Karo to protect her. In the meantime, Max is himself suspected by the police to have kidnapped Marie. Only with a trap can he prove his innocence.
Acting
Tim Bergmann's exasperated everyman energy carries the absurd premise.
Writing
Kid-fakes-kidnapping-to-escape-career-climber-parents is darkly inspired.
Director
Thomas Louis Pröve
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This TV movie is a loose remake of the 1992 film 'Weibsbilder' — Germany loves recycling its own premises.
The Henderson Games subplot satirizes 2000s corporate 'family values' branding — Vincent literally commodifies fatherhood for a promotion.
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