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Penny Pincher!

2016 · 89 min

A breezy, silly French farce where watching a man hoard coins and squirm through lies is light, cringe-adjacent fun.

Directed by
Fred Cavayé
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Dany Boon, Laurence Arné, Noémie Schmidt
Overview
François Gautier is stingy! Saving puts the joy, it causes pay sweats. His life is set for the sole purpose of never spend anything. A life that will switch in one day: he falls in love and discovers he has a daughter he did not know existed. Forced to lie in order to hide his terrible default, this will be the beginning for François problems. Because lie can sometimes be expensive. Very expensive…

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Directed by
Fred Cavayé
Genres
Comedy
Starring
Dany Boon, Laurence Arné, Noémie Schmidt
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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • absurdstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 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
  • family
  • love
  • identity
  • deception
  • greed
Places
  • big city
  • workplace
  • home
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
Realism7
Romance5
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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