The Man on the Train

Infobox_Film
name = Man on the Train

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caption = United States theatrical poster
director = Patrice Leconte
writer = Claude Klotz
starring = Jean Rochefort,
Johnny Hallyday
producer = Philippe Carcassonne
distributor= Paramount Classics (USA)
budget =
released= flagicon|USA 9 May, 2003
runtime = 90 minutes
language = French
imdb_id = 0301414|

"L'homme du train" ("The Man on the Train") is a 2002 French crime-drama film, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday. It is also known as "Man on the Train" in the United States

The movie was shot in Annonay, France and won the audience awards at the Venice Film Festival for "Best Film" and "Best Actor" (Jean Rochefort) in 2002.

This was the first foreign language film in which the British Film Council invested £500,000 (€750,000). The total budget of the film was €5,000,000.

Paramount Classics acquired the United States distribution rights of this film and gave it a limited US theatrical release on May 9, 2003; this film went on grossing $2.5 million in the United States theaters [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301414/business] , which is a solid result for a non-English film [http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_031230yearend.html] . Paramount Classics was ecstatic with this film's performance in the United States market. [ [http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/google/article_brief/1000593177 Making the Grade] , Hollywood Reporter, 3 August 2004]

Plot

A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.

Hollywood Remake

Miramax Films is producing an English remake of this film. [http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=44393]

Trivia

At one point in the film, Jean Rochefort plays the piano for Johnny Hallyday and at the end of the piece asks him: "Are you musical?" Hallyday is one of France's best-known and most successful rock-and-rollers, so this is roughly the equivalent of Uma Thurman's line to John Travolta in "Pulp Fiction": "Do you dance?"

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External links

*imdb title|id=0301414|title=L'homme du train