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
    (4,870 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, 1 hr. 30 min.
Directed By
Eric Lartigau
Genres
Comedy
On DVD
Dec 9, 2008
Alliance Atlantis Vivafilm

Critic Reviews

  • 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.

  • Karl French, Financial Times

    A stilted, intermittently winsome story.

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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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