Grosse chaleur

Sep 29, 2004

1h 30m

★ 6.0

Overview

On vacation in the Luberon, a high ranking civil servant, in love with the good old fashioned thinking, has to put up with a bunch of troublemakers in his haven of tranquillity and prevent them from watering in circles. Wife, child and mother-in-law in the front row, brother-in-law and sister-in-law as bonus gifts. Add to that a terrible heat wave and a mother left alone in her apartment in Paris... The cocktail is boiling, even explosive... with this heat it will be hard to keep it cool.

Genres

Comedy

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Cast

Marie-Sophie Merceron

Brigitte Fossey

Mireille

Catherine Arditi

Paul

Jean Benguigui

Madeleine

Annik Alane

Hédiard Merceron

Benoît Petitjean

Pierre-Louis Merceron

Pierre Benichou

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