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• Actors: Adolph Green, Laura Benson, Linda Lavin, Gérard Depardieu, Micheline Presle
• Directors: Alain Resnais
• Writers: Jules Feiffer
• Producers: Christian Ferry, Marin Karmitz
• Format: PAL
• Language: English, French
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 2 (Read more about DVD formats.)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1.0
• Studio: VellaVision
• Run Time: 100 minutes
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• ASIN: B000AZ69DC
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #210,841 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Spain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), English ( Subtitles ), Spanish ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (1.66:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Cast/Crew Interview(s), Interactive Menu, Photo Gallery, Scene Access, Trailer(s), SYNOPSIS: 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, 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.
SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Ceasar Awards, Fantasporto Awards, Venice Film Festival,