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      Life Is a Long Quiet River

      1987 1h 30m Comedy List
      Reviews 80% Audience Score 500+ Ratings A vengeful nurse (Catherine Hiegel) gets back at the doctor (Daniel Gélin) she's been having an affair with by switching two babies in the maternity ward. The families taking home new babies couldn't be more different. The affluent Le Quesnoy family takes home a daughter, and the criminal-minded Groseilles take home a little boy. Neither family causes much of a fuss when they discover what's happened, so the switched girl (Valérie Lalande) and boy (Benoît Magimel) remain with the wrong families. Read More Read Less

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      Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Rated: 3/5 Jun 19, 2005 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member This film is just awesome. Very well directed, great story, good actors, it's so brilliantly done, you'll have to adore it! One of the best film from my childhood. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member « Les deux Jésus, ils ne partent pas avec les mêmes chances dans la vie » Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Audience Member Film soi-disant culte... L'histoire est longue a demarrer. L'idee est pourtant interessante mais je trouve qu'elle a mal ete exploiter. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member El 1r cop q la vaig veure (l'any 1990) em va semblar de 5 estrelles... Però à (C)s q aleshores tenia 13 anys. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/01/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie has achieved iconic status in France. So many sentences are now famous and stay funny even more than 20 years later... The story is quite weirdo sometimes but the plot stays very actual... Characters are so funny by their madness and extravangance... I just love them !!! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member un film culte, des répliques intemporelles. Un peu de militantisme sociale... Génial!!! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/06/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Synopsis A vengeful nurse (Catherine Hiegel) gets back at the doctor (Daniel Gélin) she's been having an affair with by switching two babies in the maternity ward. The families taking home new babies couldn't be more different. The affluent Le Quesnoy family takes home a daughter, and the criminal-minded Groseilles take home a little boy. Neither family causes much of a fuss when they discover what's happened, so the switched girl (Valérie Lalande) and boy (Benoît Magimel) remain with the wrong families.
      Director
      Étienne Chatiliez
      Screenwriter
      Étienne Chatiliez, Florence Quentin
      Production Co
      Centre National de la Cinematographie, France 3 Cinéma
      Genre
      Comedy
      Original Language
      French (France)
      Release Date (Streaming)
      Jul 27, 2020
      Box Office (Gross USA)
      $52.1K
      Runtime
      1h 30m
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