Geert de Jong Movies
- 1996
A widowed Latvian father's quest for a much-loved Dutch pen pal, whom he hasn't heard from in three decades, provides the basis of this comedy-drama. The father is accompanied by his traumatized and mute eight-year-old son whom he had to kidnap from a Riga hospital. Together, the two flee towards Holland where the father Yuris hopes to find his long-lost friend Marie, whom he remembers as a great beauty. During the long journey, father and son have several funny adventures, many of which occur because neither father nor son speak much Dutch. They finally arrive at Marie's door empty-handed. What they find, gives them little hope, for the lithe young idealist of Yuris' dreams has become middle-aged and cynical. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1996
Lisa is Swiss mountain climber whose life is destroyed when her philandering ex-boyfriend Rob drops a boulder of bad news upon her. The two broke up shortly after Lisa returned from a failed attempt to climb the Matterhorn and found Rob in bed with a stranger. To work off her anger and grief she rappels down the side of a tall hotel building. Just before the police catch her, she drops into the room of Sam, a serious young pianist preparing for an up-coming competition. An introverted mama's boy, Sam seems an unlikely candidate for being her next lover, but after Lisa gives Sam a few mountain climbing lessons, that is exactly what he becomes. Unfortunately, Rob has been trying to find her, not to win her back, but to inform Lisa that he has been diagnosed as HIV-positive. Lisa, too tests positive and now she must use her mountain-climbing skills to scale the high walls of the remote mountain monastery where Sam has gone to prepare for the semi-finals of his piano competition. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- 1991
In this talky drama, based on a play by British writer Alan Ayckbourn, two company owners and their wives are wending their way up a river in a rented motorboat. While the men are important people in their company, and their wives are similarly well-respected, they are not especially canny sailors. After they nearly have a catastrophic accident and are rescued from it by a disreputable and cunning low-life who happens to be a decent sailor, they take the man onto their yacht, and the fun begins there. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Geert de Jong
- 1990
Gabriel is a mural painter from Dutch Surinam who has been hired to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary in a church in Curaçao. Curaçao is a self-governing island in the Netherlands Antillees off the coast of South America. In the story, he has taken a mixed-race woman as his model, and the emerging picture, with its negroid features, is creating quite a stir. Meanwhile, he has fallen in love with his model, who is engaged to a white police officer, and the wife of the island's governor has fallen in love with him. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- 1989
Liesje has heard about her father all her life. The story her mother tells her is that she met and married in Rio de Janeiro, and left him to return to Amsterdam because she was homesick. He is supposed to rejoin them after he has made a lot of money from his crocodile hunting business. In the meantime, they have been staying at her grandfather's house. Grandpa is dead, and Liesje's mother has a boyfriend who is staying in his old room. Liesje is not happy about his, and quietly manages to sell off some old heirloom stamps to find her father and set things right. Instead, she discovers the truth, which is that he is just around the corner, and is serving time in prison for smuggling. This serious children's drama is based on a book by Burny Bos, and was released in some markets as Maman! dessine-moi un papa. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Geert de Jong, Theu Boermans, (more)
- 1987
This social drama concerns the residents of an Amsterdam tenement apartment. The characters come from all walks of life and share a common bond in hopes for a better life. Included are a female student who lives with her brother, a single blonde mother with two dark-skinned daughters, and a shady trader who wheels and deals to make a modest income. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marijke Veugelers, Gerard Thoolen, (more)
- 1987
When Jan (Cas Enklaar) visits his father (Geert de Jong) on his deathbed, he tries to reconcile for years of mutual animosity. Flashbacks are used to tell the story of the family's struggles beginning in the 1930s and through World War II until the 1960s. The family is trapped in a love-hate cycle that belies the Protestant religious foundation that serves as faith. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tom Jansen, Geert de Jong, (more)
- 1986
A well-wrought sequel to the popular Schatjes, Mama Is Boos! draws on the same styles and themes that inspired the success of the earlier comedy. The all-out war between the parents and their children in Schatjes has become an all-out war declared by Danny Gisberts (Geert de Jong) against her two-timing, fickle husband John (Peter Faber). She throws objects as well as tantrums, is not above kidnapping her kids, and has a final, glorious say about what she thinks of him at a NATO gathering featuring her husband. NATO's stage entertainment is cleverly sub-par, but that cannot be said for this comedy, which is fast-paced and fun. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Peter Faber, Geert de Jong, (more)
- 1984
In one action-filled segment after another, this spoof of Hollywood exaggeration, rebellious teenagers, military machos, and domineering parents mimics some well-known characters and scenes from American movies, and pits a family's brood of kids against the Dutch army. In the constant battle with their parents, the son blows up their bedroom, and the daughter fights it out with her mother over a new boyfriend (they both want him). The father is a helicopter pilot from the nearby military base and as his children's activities escalate into setting up barbed wire around the house, the military gathers its forces for an attack. While a kind of uncontrollable anarchy pervades each step in the story, this fast-paced spoof does not have a definitive plot to hold everything together, and nor any noticeable character development - though for some viewers, the incongruous scenes would be entertaining enough by themselves. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Akkemay, Peter Faber, (more)
- 1984
This Dutch film (it's dubbed) focuses upon the ranting Gisbert family whose foul-mouthed members have a hard time getting along with one another. This film does contain nudity. ~ All Movie Guide
- 1984
Not a French revolution epic as might be assumed, Bastille is a modern social drama filmed in Holland. Derek de Lint plays the grown-up child of Dutch Holocaust victims. Throughout the first half of the film, he denies his past even while seeking out the facts behind his parents' demise. His indecision gives way to obsession: before the film has drawn to a close, he has convinced himself that he is capable of going back in time and changing history. Director Rudolph Van den Berg sometimes seems as confused as his Bastille protagonist. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Derek de Lint, Geert de Jong, (more)
This stylish erotic thriller gained a cult following for its frank treatment of bisexuality, bizarre visuals, and an extremely sexy performance by Renee Soutendijk as a woman who may or may not have killed her three previous husbands. Jeroen Krabbe is terrific as the intended fourth, a broken-down bisexual writer who is pulled into Soutendijk's web like an unsuspecting fly. Bloody and erotic, De Vierde Man will also interest fans of director Paul Verhoeven, who returned to many of the same themes in his smash American hit Basic Instinct. ~ Robert Firsching, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jeroen Krabbé, Renée Soutendijk, (more)
- 1975
Based on a popular and well-known Dutch stage play, Rooie Sien tells the story of a woman (Willeke Alberti) living in Rotterdam before the First World War. Her mother, a prostitute in Amsterdam, refuses to be "rescued" by her husband. Sien moves to Amsterdam and marries and is now unhappy in her own right. She sings a number of popular songs throughout the story. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Willeke Alberti, Pim de la Parra, (more)
