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Animal

Animal

Comedy · 1977

Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.

Movie details

Animal

1977 Comedy 1h 40m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.5 / 10

3.6K votes

TMDB

6.0 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Claude Zidi

Written by

Michel Audiard

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Mike Gaucher / Bruno Ferrari

Raquel Welch

Raquel Welch

Jane Gardner

Dany Saval

Dany Saval

Doris

Charles Gérard

Charles Gérard

Hyacinthe

Raymond Gérôme

Raymond Gérôme

Le comte de Saint-Prix

Julien Guiomar

Julien Guiomar

Fechner

Aldo Maccione

Aldo Maccione

Sergio Campanese

Court is in session

Put Animal on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Adrenaline Seeker

“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 Prestige Tourist

“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.