It Could Be Worse

Feb 9, 1983

1h 35m

★ 2.4

Overview

A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Le Goff Productions

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Cast

Jean-Philippe Delorme

Henri Courseaux

Charles Murat

Daniel Russo

Jack Renard, the Mayor

Darry Cowl

The lawyer

Geneviève Grad

Inspector Lanvin

Catherine Lachens

Daniel Cordet

Pierre Reggiani

The biker

Mike Marshall

The doctor

Hubert Deschamps

Monsieur Lambert

Daniel Prévost

Pivot

Jacques Balutin

Marthe Mahler

Corinne Touzet

One day, Carmen Müller realizes that her husband Werner has been unemployed for months and has accumulated debts of 80,000 DM in their bank account. She comes up with a plan to rob her bank. When the branch manager and neighbor Lothar Fuchs, whom Carmen has always envied for his beauty and wealth, recognizes her, she takes him hostage. In their hideout in the Allgäu, the banker falls in love with the housewife, just as Werner and Fuchs' mistress Gabriele grow closer. The quartet form an alliance and defraud the bank together. Having come into money so suddenly, the Müllers don't feel comfortable either and secretly distribute their fortune around the neighborhood.

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