Prete-moi ta main (I Do: How to Get Married and Stay Single)

Prete-moi ta main (I Do: How to Get Married and Stay Single) (2006)

  • 53% of critics liked it
    (15 reviews)

  • 71% of users liked it
    (4,929 ratings)

Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perfume creation company, cosseted by his mother and five sisters. It could have lasted for a whole life, but fed up with mollycoddling and helping him, his mother and sisters decide it's time he got… More

Unrated,
Directed By
Genres
Comedy
On DVD
Dec 9, 2008
Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm

Critic Reviews

  • Wally Hammond, Time Out

    A heavily contrived, undemanding and often funny mainstream Paris-set comedy-drama.

  • Lisa Nesselson, Variety

    Remains in conventional (if enjoyable) movie territory from start to finish.

  • Enrique Buchichio, Uruguay Total

    (...) Es el tipo de película sobre la cual no puede decirse nada demasiado positivo ni demasiado negativo. A veces está bueno ir al cine sabiendo que no hay que esperar más que eso.

  • Anthony Quinn, Independent

    Proof that the French can make romcoms as annoying as ours.

  • Tim Robey, Daily Telegraph

    Prominent base notes of chauvinism and insincerity here.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Dean M


    Great funny, heart-warming tale about love, commitment and family. How sweet and enjoyable this French film is. And Alain Chabat is hilarious and he made his original idea of this comedy-romantic story amazing.

  • Mark A


    The first half of this was entirely predictable and almost lost this viewer as it strictly followed the script. The second half proved much more entertaining as the pseudo-couple, Luis (Alain Chabat) and Emma (Charlotte Gainsbourg) moved on to Plan B after Plan A backfired. We always… More

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