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Overall Rank: 12862
Average Rating: 2.5/4
# of Ratings: 7
Theatrical Release Date: 01/01/2008
Language: French
Genre: Comedy
Director: Dany Boon
Plot: When Philippe Abrams (Kad Merad) is transferred to the "north" of France, he finds that life up there is as strange as he's heard about. -- Allison
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Welcome to the Opportunity for a Potential Remake
Allison - wrote on 05/22/2008
Will Smith is remaking this movie as "Welcome to the Sticks". In fact all the elements are in place for Hollywood to want to remake this: it set box office records in France (even outgrossing Titanic), it's a situational comedy that is actually funny, and the script is setup properly for it to payoff properly. Dany Boon wrote, directed, co-stars in this movie where practically anywhere in France is considered France except "The North". In America, some people may feel this way about "The South".
The main difference between the North and everywhere else is the strange way they talk. Not only are their "S" sounds more like "Ch" sounds, but they have invented words that mean nothing to the rest of the universe.
When a stranger first arrives to this strange universe, he is befuddled …
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