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Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Pedro Armendariz Jr., André Valardy, Corynne Charbit ...( see more  see more... ) , Jorge Luke , Maritza Olivares , Michel Robin , Sergio Calderón

Unable to find the 22-year-old, accident-prone daughter of a wealthy industrialist, a private eye has to work with a distracted and unlucky publicist under the theory that only someone as absent-minde...( read more  read more... )d as the vanished girl can find out where she is. Their travels range from the boardrooms of a huge multinational conglomerate to the tropics of Mexico. "LA CHEVRE" introduced the popular comic duo of Gérard Depardieu and Pierre Richard, who went on to star in a number of other films together.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 30 min.

Directed by: Francis Veber

Release Date: December 9, 1981

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DVD Release Date: March 4, 2003

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  • hypathio7
    March 21, 2009
    hypathio7
    nominated for best foreign film by NBR
  • jmlanlo
    March 13, 2009
    jmlanlo
    Je ne suis pas fan de comédies françaises mais j'aime beaucoup Pierre Richard, et Depardieu n'est pas mauvais non plus quand il veut.
    Alors...
  • AndySitzerFan
    June 10, 2008
    AndySitzerFan
    I wish I could watch every movie ever made but I sadly don't have the time. I'm not interested in this movie because I don't think I'll like it or don't know enough about it to think I might like it. I may still end up seeing it some day though.
  • MECreviews
    March 24, 2008
    MECreviews
    This movie had potential, but fell through the cracks. To bad.
  • ugot2luvme
    March 18, 2008
    ugot2luvme
    Very light comedy, but it is so enjoyable to watch! I love it when Pierre Richard and Gerard Deparideu co-star a movie!
  • InfamousHugo
    March 14, 2008
    InfamousHugo
    LA CHÈVRE (1981)
    directed by Françis Veber
    starring Pierre Richard, Gérad Depardieu, Corynne Charbit

    Do you remember Pure Luck starring Martin Short and Danny Glover ? Well if you do, its a remake of La chèvre bu
    ...( read more)t if you dont, well, heres the plot. After his very unlucky-slash-clumsy daughter, a rich man hires a private detective and a man who suffers the same lack of luck with the same clumsiness as her to find her trace.

    Françis Veber is a playwright. He always has the same kinda premise with the same type of characters with only a few changes. Its always a dummy with either a strong dude or an intellectual. Here, its a strond dude, played by Gérard Depardieu, who was mostly known as a serious actor back then. Pierre Richard, a famous French comedian, is the dummy, but of course he doesnt know. The clumsiness of his character will take them from one place to another and all coincidences will put them on the right path, which is always disbelived by Depardieu's character as a «magic trick» of destiny.

    The humor here is quite easy. One simply joke after another. Its not great but its somehow effective. La chèvre seems a bit dated and the jokes arent well-punched. Basically it didnt age well enough to still be as hilarious as it was once considered.

    Richard and Depardieu are pretty much flawless with their roles, which makes the film, at least, still effective today.

    Its not a very clever film, but its kinda well-crafted, even if its easy to make. It works, its all that counts. If you want to see a real good Veber film, I suggest you see Le dîner de con also known as The dinner game.

    P.S. La chèvre means «the goat» but there are no goat in the film and it must simply refer to a French expression that I dont know, even if Im French-Canadian.
  • onomatopee
    February 20, 2008
    onomatopee
    Belle paire que font ces deux là! Malgré tout, je trouve que le film était moins bon que les suivants (Le dîner de cons notamment). Depardieu est vraiment charmant.
  • majorroadrage76
    February 13, 2008
    majorroadrage76
    wasnt that bad but what was with the fucking music???
  • bomberthomson
    June 4, 2007
    bomberthomson
    The strength of Francis's Veber's comedies is that he always starts with a great comic premise then builds on it with a strong script and cast. In this film a wealthy businessman's daughter goes missing in Latin America. He hires a detective ( Depardieu ) to find her, but the fir...( read more)st attempt is unsuccesful. His daughter is exceptionally accident-prone and so the president's advisor suggest a solution : send his accident-prone underling Francois Pignon with the detective and he's sure to find her ! This leads to no end of scrapes. Gerard Depardieu is of course the straight man in this and is brilliant as ever as a super macho PI.

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