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Lieber Brad (2001)

In letters to her idol, Brad Pitt, twelve-year-old Tina Vonlanthen pours out her heart about what life in a small Swiss border town on the Rhine is like: trouble with her older sister, twenty-year-old Babs, "who still hasn't found a man," and worries about her single father Urs, who has been so distracted lately. But it is neither spinsterhood nor Alzheimer's that the Vonlanthens suffer from. Rather, it is the small and large love affairs that they try to keep secret from each other: Babs' lover is her married German boss—and Urs' girlfriend is Caroline, a black woman from Cameroon. At the local big event, the "fish dinner," everything comes out in the open—and Tina also has some heart-pounding experiences that she prefers to keep quiet about in her letters to Brad...

  • Comedy
  • Family

Top billed cast

  • Photo of Carol SchulerCarol SchulerTina
  • Photo of Andrea GuyerAndrea GuyerBabs
  • Photo of Mathias GnädingerMathias GnädingerUrs
  • Photo of Martine MaximinMartine MaximinCaroline
  • Photo of Ingo HülsmannIngo HülsmannLudger
  • Photo of Susanne-Marie WrageSusanne-Marie WrageFrau Senn
  • Photo of Katharina von BockKatharina von BockLudgers Frau