There's nothing revolutionary or artistically groundbreaking here, but there's something reassuring in the fact that this is what the French have anointed as their biggest hit. Vive la (low-key) difference.
Welcome to the Sticks
2008 · 1h 46m · Not Rated
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed by
Dany Boon
,
Nicolas Guy
Overview
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
Director and cast
- Dany Boon Director
- Nicolas Guy Director
- Kad Merad as Philippe Abrams
- Dany Boon as Antoine Bailleul
- Zoé Félix as Julie Abrams
- Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret as Raphaël Abrams
- Anne Marivin as Annabelle Deconninck
- Philippe Duquesne as Fabrice Canoli
- Guy Lecluyse as Yann Vandernoout
- Line Renaud as Madame Bailleul
- Michel Galabru as le grand oncle de Julie
- Stéphane Freiss Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
[Dany] Boon tinkers with the formula just enough to make his story fresh and the sentiment at its heart not too sweet, though compounded contrivances in the last 30 minutes of the picture threaten to unravel its peculiar magic.
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