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Those Happy Days

2006 · 103 min

A gentle, good-natured comedy of small disasters and mild chaos, easy to settle into and hard to dislike.

Tagline
This summer, let your kids drive someone else crazy!
Overview
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings...

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How it feels

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Tone
  • lightstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
  • warmstrength 1 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • work
  • family
  • coming-of-age
  • friendship
  • class
Places
  • countryside
  • small town
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • ensemble
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
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight4

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Details

Genres
comedy, family
Directed by
Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
Written by
Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano
Starring
Jean-Paul Rouve, Marilou Berry, Omar Sy, Lannick Gautry, Julie Fournier, Guillaume Cyr, Joséphine de Meaux, Jacques Boudet
Cinematography
Rémy Chevrin
Runtime
103 min
Country
France
Languages
French

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