Proper Attire Required
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His estranged wife is worth millions, but poor Paris resident Richard is homeless and jobless. He applied for unemployment benefits and now faces charges of fraud. To save himself from nine months in jail he must find his wife and force her to tell the courts the truth, that though she has married a politically-ambitious American governor and is filing U.S. tax returns, she is technically still married to Richard. But as she lives in America, how can he get to her? Opportunity knocks when Richard learns that she and her husband will be attending an international conference at an exclusive Paris hotel. To get in he will need a disguise.
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Jacques Gamblin
Richard Poulenc
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Zabou Breitman
Catherine Sperry
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Elsa Zylberstein
Lucie
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Jean Yanne
M. Brucker
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Daniel Prévost
M. Bardon
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Christian Sinniger
Maurice
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Philippe Beglia
Don Sperry
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Urbain Cancelier
Raoul Duchemin
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Fabienne Chaudat
Rose Duchemin
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Zinedine Soualem
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JCVD
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Jean-François Perrier
Walter
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Yves Afonso
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Philippe Lioret Director · Sandra Joxe Writer Jean-Louis Leconte Writer
First release March 21, 1997 · Produced in France · Production Epithète Films, France 3 Cinéma
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PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
Production
Epithète Films
Production
France 3 Cinéma
Production
France
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Tenue correcte exigée
Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
Switzerland · March 21, 1997
Theatrical
France · March 26, 1997
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Belgium
April 9, 1997 · Theatrical
Canada
April 11, 1997 · Theatrical
France
July 17, 2000 · Physical · DVD
February 1, 2016 · Digital · VOD
Lebanon
March 9, 2000 · Theatrical
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