Fresh
Weaves a simple premise into comedy gold.
Lisa Nesselson, Variety
Overview
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
Director and cast
- Francis Veber Director
- Jacques Villeret as François Pignon
- Thierry Lhermitte as Pierre Brochant
- Francis Huster as Juste Leblanc
- Daniel Prévost as Lucien Cheval
- Alexandra Vandernoot as Christine
- Catherine Frot as Marlène Sasseur
- Edgar Givry as Jean Cordier
- Christian Pereira as Dr Sorbier
- Benoît Bellal Cast
- Jacques Bleu Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
73%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Despite the stagey set-up (it was originally conceived as a play and it shows), the film manages to maintain its humor and energy until the final scene in which Veber suddenly casts aside his delightful meanspiritedness and gets soft-hearted and preachy.
Andrea C. Basora, Newsweek
Fresh
Some realist nuances in the characters' behavior become more intriguing than the belabored humor.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Fresh
A sip of sparkling champagne in a moviegoing summer of mostly cheap red wine for teenage winos.
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer
Fresh
On its own terms, it's an idiot's delight.
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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