La Totale! details
Movie Details:
- Director: Claude Zidi
- Produced By: Paravision International, MDG Productions, Film Par Film, Sofiarp, TF1 Films, Films 7
- Year: 1991
- Run Time: 100 minutes
- Country: France
- Category: Feature
- Genre/Type: Comedy
- Filmed In: Color
- Alternate Titles: The Jackpot!
- Key Cast: Thierry Lhermitte, Miou-Miou, Eddy Mitchell, Michel Boujenah, Jean Benguigui, Berangere Jean, Yan Epstein, Annick Alane, Full Credits
François (Thierry Lhermitte) has convinced his wife and nearly everyone else that he is a pleasant, downtrodden civil servant who has been immured in a dead-end job. In reality, he is a very competent secret operative for the government. Meanwhile, Helene (Miou-Miou), the mother of his two children, has grown bored with her dull husband and is considering whether or not she should have an affair with an attractively sleazy used-car salesman who has been feeding her his standard seduction line: that he's a secret agent (which, in his case, is a lie). When François discovers this, he concocts a plan to teach his wife a lesson, which grows unexpectedly complicated when the two of them stumble across an international arms-smuggling cartel. by Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Keywords:
- extramarital-affair
- double-life
- espionage
- smuggling
- assumed-identity
- government-agent
- arms [military weapons]
Themes:
- Assumed Identities
- Crumbling Marriages
