Adolph Green, Caroline Sihol, Geraldine Chaplin, Gerard Depardieu, John Ashton ...( see more  see more... ) , Laura Benson , Linda Lavin , Micheline Presle

Joey Wellman, a cantankerous American cartoonist, accepts an invitation to come to an exhibition in Paris, because his estranged daughter Elsie is a student there. He arrives with his girlfriend Lena,...( read more  read more... ) and very soon wants to go home as the culture shock is too much for him. Elsie puts off meeting him because she is busy trying to find Professor Christian Gauthier, in order to get him to read her thesis on Flaubert. However Gauthier is enamored with American culture, and invites Joey and some other Americans to his mother's house for the weekend. Elsie arrives at the gathering in time for the masquerade party and to see her father beginning to appreciate French culture.

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Directed by: Alain Resnais

Release Date: September 7, 1989

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DVD Release Date: February 19, 2008

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  • July 30, 2008
    What a mess. Resnais must have been drunk when he made this. A satire about American-French relations with a bizarre cast. Adolph Green gives one of the most obnoxious performances ever as an American cartoonist who goes to Paris to visit his estranged daughter. Depardieu can...( read more)'t speak proper English. The film culminates in a Rules of the Game-ish costume party. It ends up as pretty much a live action cartoon.

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