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Start the Revolution Without Me

1970 · 90 min

A silly, fast-moving farce of mistaken identities that plays like a live-action cartoon with witty wordplay and slapstick chaos.

Tagline: Gene Wilder... wilder than ever!
Overview: Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigue.

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Tone: absurdstrength 3 of 3
satiricalstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
lightstrength 2 of 3
Pacing: brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: identity
class
deception
power
family
Places: single country house
countryside
Era: period
Audience: teen
Form: ensemble
nonlinear
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	4
Horror	1
Humour	8
Realism	4
Romance	3
Tension	3
Darkness	2
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	2

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Genres: comedy, history
Directed by: Bud Yorkin
Written by: Lawrence J. Cohen, Fred Freeman
Starring: Gene Wilder, Donald Sutherland, Hugh Griffith, Jack MacGowran, Billie Whitelaw, Victor Spinetti, Ewa Aulin, Helen Fraser
Music: John Addison
Cinematography: Jean Tournier
Runtime: 90 min
Country: United States of America
Languages: English

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