The Bet (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Bet

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director = Didier Bourdon
Bernard Campan
writer = Didier Bourdon
Bernard Campan
starring = Didier Bourdon
Bernard Campan
Isabelle Ferron
producer = Claude Berri
distributor =
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released = flagicon|France 15 October, 1997
runtime = 100 min.
language = French
amg_id = 1:160068
imdb_id = 0119863

"The Bet" (French title: "Le Pari") is a 1997 film directed, written, and starred by Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan.

Plot

Bernard is a teacher in the suburbs and lives with Victoria. Didier is a wealthy Parisian pharmacist and is married to Muriel. While the former drives a rusty 205, the other, the latter drives a black Mercedes. Both siblings are complete opposites and hate each other. During dinner, Didier and Bernard make a bet: to stop smoking for fifteen days, until the next family get-together. The first days go off like a dream and both are on top of the world. But things quickly turn sour. Didier and Bernard find it harder and harder to resist the temptation. They become irritable, suspicious, they lie; until the fifteenth day: the family get-together. They have kept their word, but relations between them and their wives are at an all time low. Despite this, they are both determined to remain non-smokers.

Main cast

*Didier Bourdon – Didier
*Bernard Campan – Bernard
*Isabelle Ferron – Murielle
*Isabel Otero – Victoria

External links

*imdb title|id=0119863|title=The Bet