Welcome to the Sticks

Feb 20, 2008

1h 46m

★ 6.7

Overview

Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...

Genres

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Pathé Renn Productions

Hirsch

Pathé

TF1 Films Production

Les Productions du Ch'timi

Pictanovo

Welcome to the Sticks Trailers

Cast

Philippe Abrams

Kad Merad

Antoine Bailleul

Dany Boon

Julie Abrams

Zoé Félix

Raphaël Abrams

Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret

Annabelle Deconninck

Anne Marivin

Fabrice Canoli

Philippe Duquesne

Yann Vandernoout

Guy Lecluyse

Mrs. Bailleul

Line Renaud

Julie's Great Uncle

Michel Galabru

Jean

Stéphane Freiss

Policeman on A7

Patrick Bosso

Inspector Lebic

Jérôme Commandeur

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7.2

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5.4

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7.8

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6.6

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7.8

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5.4

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6.7

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5.5

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7.1

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7.4

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5.0

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6.2

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7.1

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5.9

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7.3

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