The Under-Gifted

Apr 30, 1980

1h 32m

★ 6.4

Overview

The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!

Genres

Comedy

Production Companies

Films 7

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Cast

Baptiste Laval, dit "Bébel"

Daniel Auteuil

le commissaire

Michel Galabru

Lucie Jumaucourt

Maria Pacôme

Julien Senquin

Philippe Taccini

Léon Jumaucourt

Hubert Deschamps

Gaston Pourquier

Raymond Bussières

le père de Julien

Étienne Draber

Catherine Jumaucourt

Tonie Marshall

le pion

Richard Bohringer

Caroline Janin

Françoise Michaud

Gaëtan

Gaëtan Bloom

Graffiti

Patrick Laurent

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