In one split second, their lives went from party to potty.
Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one-month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
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Classical in form, comic, intimate and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
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- tmdb76622195on TMDB · Sep 20237/10
This is the French film that was remade as the 1987 treacly ubersuccess "Three Men and a Baby." They are both equally good, and for different reasons. Pierre (Roland Giraud) the architect, Michel (Michel Boujenah) the cartoonist, and Jacques (Andre Dussollier) the air steward all live in the same Paris apartment. Their swinging ways are turned upside down when Jacques' hitherto unknown infant child is left on the doorstep with a note attached from the mother saying she will be in the United States on a modelling shoot for a few months. Jacques is not there, either, as he is in the Far East. He did promise to hold a package for a friend, and Pierre and Michel assume baby Marie is it. Very similar to the remake, so far. The baby is given to drug dealers, who come looking for a "package" of heroin. The exchange is not made, and the police follow Pierre and Michel, looking for the narcotics. Strangely, halfway through the film, Michel hands off the heroin in a diaper to the dealer, and this plot, which never worked in either film, suddenly ends! No hidden camera, no dressing like a woman, and no eccentric detective. I wondered just what the heck these people were going to do for the re
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Cast
- Roland GiraudPierre
- Michel BoujenahMichel
- André DussollierJacques
- Philippine Leroy-BeaulieuSylvia
- Dominique LavanantMs. Rapons
- Marthe VillalongaAntoinette
- Annick AlanePharmacist
- Josine ComellasMs. Rodriguez, concierge
- Jennifer MoretMarie Nr. 2
- François DomangePaul
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- Coline SerreauDirector
- Coline SerreauScreenplay
- Jean-Yves EscoffierDirector of Photography
- Jean-Jacques BouhonDirector of Photography
- Catherine RenaultEditor
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