Life Is a Long Quiet River

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Life Is a Long Quiet River

1987

1h 30m

Comedy

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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.

Emanuel Levy

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Rated: 3/5

Jun 19, 2005

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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

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« Les deux Jésus, ils ne partent pas avec les mêmes chances dans la vie »

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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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

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El 1r cop q la vaig veure (l'any 1990) em va semblar de 5 estrelles... PerÃ² Ã (C)s q aleshores tenia 13 anys.

Rated 3 out of 5 stars

02/01/23

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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

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un film culte, des rÃ©pliques intemporelles. Un peu de militantisme sociale... GÃ©nial!!!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Étienne Chatiliez

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Momo Groseille

Hélène Vincent

Madame Marielle Le Quesnoy

André Wilms

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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
Producer: Florence Quentin
Screenwriter: Étienne Chatiliez, Florence Quentin
Production Co: France 3 Cinéma, Centre National de la Cinematographie
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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