Full Speed

Sep 25, 1996

1h 25m

★ 5.2

Overview

A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it...

Genres

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

PolyGram Filmed Entertainment

Full Speed Trailers

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Cast

Julie

Élodie Bouchez

Jimmy

Stéphane Rideau

Quentin

Pascal Cervo

Samir

Mezziane Bardadi

Rick

Romain Auger

Jamel

Salim Kéchiouche

Karim

Mohammed Dib

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