François Pignon, an accountant in a condom factory, learns that he is going to be fired. Already overwhelmed by personal problems, he decides to throw himself out the window. He is stopped in his tracks by his next-door neighbor who suggests an unexpected plan to keep his job: pretend to be a homosexual. Assuming that in this age of political correctness, one does not fire a gay man, he manages to convince Pignon to play along while remaining a discreet and shy little man... What will change is the way others look at him. Pignon will thus benefit from an unusual reintegration by coming out of a closet where he had never entered.
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Cast
7 people
Élie Semoun
François Pignon
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Ducoboo
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Laurent Gamelon
Felix Santini
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Philippe Magnan
Jean-Pierre Belone
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The Magic Tuche
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Zoé Félix
Mademoiselle Bertrand
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Welcome to the Sticks
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François Levantal
Messieurs Kopel
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The Crimson Rivers
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Laurent Paolini
Guillaume
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Marie Facundo
Ariane
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Dominique Thiel Director · Francis Veber Story
Worldwide gross $50M · Budget $14M · First release May 29, 2015
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Budget
$14,500,000
Worldwide gross
$50,100,000
Gross vs. budget
3.5×
Production
France
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Original language
French
Spoken on screen
French
Release dates
France · May 29, 2015
TV · D8
No release date listed for United States.
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