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Quatre Garçons pleins d'avenir

Quatre Garçons pleins d'avenir

Comedy · 1997

The premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from realized in this banal, unevenly paced, run-of-the-mill attempt at a supposedly funny story.

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Quatre Garçons pleins d'avenir

1997 Comedy 1h 30m

Critical arithmetic

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IMDb

6.1 / 10

899 votes

TMDB

6.3 / 10

Community rating

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The premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from realized in this banal, unevenly paced, run-of-the-mill attempt at a supposedly funny story.

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Directed by

Jean-Paul Lilienfeld

Written by

Jean-Paul Lilienfeld · Laurent Molinaro · Jean-Patrick Benes

Olivier Brocheriou

Olivier Brocheriou

Arnaud

Stéphan Guérin-Tillié

Stéphan Guérin-Tillié

Axel

Olivier Sitruk

Olivier Sitruk

Johan

Éric Berger

Éric Berger

Bretling

Thierry Lhermitte

Thierry Lhermitte

Le flic

Patrick Sébastien

Patrick Sébastien

Georges

Roland Giraud

Roland Giraud

Duprez

Court is in session

Put Quatre Garçons pleins d'avenir on trial.

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The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.