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Anything for Alice

2014 · 99 min

A breezy, silly romantic comedy where elaborate schemes for love keep things light and forgettable.

Directed by
Nicolas Cuche
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Max Boublil, Aïssa Maïga, Patrick Timsit
Overview
Slacker Max fell so hard for single mother Alice in college that he developed a website aimed at winning her heart. Years later, after his venture has earned him millions of dollars, Max risks his entire fortune performing an ever more complicated series of social contortions to get close to Alice, now a politically motivated factory worker.

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Directed by
Nicolas Cuche
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Max Boublil, Aïssa Maïga, Patrick Timsit
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • obsession
  • class
  • deception
  • ambition
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
teen
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror0
Humour7
Realism6
Romance6
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Genres
comedy
Directed by
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Written by
Nicolas Cuche
Starring
Max Boublil, Aïssa Maïga, Patrick Timsit, Chantal Lauby, Redouanne Harjane, Steve Tran, Naidra Ayadi, Philippe Lefebvre
Music
Christophe La Pinta
Cinematography
Guillaume Deffontaines
Runtime
99 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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