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I Want to Go Home

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.

1989 |1h 40m |  Comedy

Cast

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Laura Benson

Elsie Wellman

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Linda Lavin

Lena Apthrop

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Gérard Depardieu

Christian Gauthier

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Geraldine Chaplin

Terry Amstrong

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François-Eric Gendron

Lionel Cohn-Martin

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John Ashton

Harry Dempsey

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Caroline Silhol

Dora Dempsey

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Micheline Presle

Isabelle Gauthier

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Patrick Bonnel

Le boucher

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Alain Fromager

L'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier

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Peter Hudson

Le Spectre

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Raphaëline Goupilleau

L'étudiante dans le bureau de Gauthier

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Isabelle Habiague

La jeune femme qui chante

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Ludivine Sagnier

La petite fille de la place du village

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Isabelle Turpault

Catwoman

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Abbes Zahmani

Le Concombre Masqué

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Lucienne Hamon

Mme Roget

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Catherine Arditi

La boulangère

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Anne Roussel

La jeune femme fatiguée

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Jean Champion

Le chauffeur de taxi

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Emmanuelle Chaulet

La secrétaire de Gauthier

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Pierre Decazes

Le garagiste

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Françoise Bertin

La cliente de la marchande de légumes

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Status

Released

Language

English, French, Spanish

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