- Les Compères
Infobox Film
name = Les Compères
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director =Francis Veber
producer = Jean-Claude Bourlat
writer = Francis Veber
starring =Gérard Depardieu Pierre Richard Anny Duperey
music =Vladimir Cosma
cinematography = Claude Agostini
editing = Marie-Sophie Dubus
distributor =European International
released = flagicon|FranceNovember 23
flagicon|USMarch 1
runtime = 92 min.
country =France
language = French
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amg_id = 1:28983
imdb_id = 0085354"Les Compères" (English title: ComDads) is a 1983 French
comedy film written and directed byFrancis Veber , and starringGérard Depardieu ,Pierre Richard andAnny Duperey .This movie was remade as "Fathers' Day" (1997).
Plot
A teenaged son has run away from home. His father is ineffective at finding him, so his mother contacts two former lovers from around the time her son was conceived, telling them that the child is their son and asking them to look for him. One of them (Depardieu) is a tough
journalist investigating theMafia , while the other (Richard) is a timid former teacher who was on the verge of committingsuicide when he received the telephone call. The two former boyfriends finally meet, and together they locate the son. In the end the son tells both Depardieu and Richard (while the other is out of earshot) that his mother thinks that he is the father. Thus, the son adopts both of them as his fathers, and also reconciles with his real father.Cast
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Pierre Richard — Francois Pignon
*Gérard Depardieu — Jean Lucas
*Anny Duperey — Christine
*Michel Aumont — Paul
*Stephane Bierry — Tristan
*Roland Blanche — Jeannot
*Philippe Khorsand — Milan
*Jean-Jacques Scheffer — RalphTrivia
*The title translates literally as "The Accomplices." It is a pun, as the word "père" means "father" in French, and moreover"compère" would mean something like "co-father", "confather", with the same (Latin) prefix as the English con-/com-/co- in words like "Italic text"con"Italic text"federate", "ac"Italic text"com"Italic text"plice", "Italic text"co-con"Italic text"spirator", etc.
External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085354 IMDB page on Les Compères]
* [http://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=2607 Les Comperes review]
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