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The Wild Goose Chase

1975 · 95 min

A breezy, chaotic farce full of slapstick chases and mistaken identities, light-hearted and silly but with a few tense moments.

Overview: The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?

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Tone: lightstrength 3 of 3
absurdstrength 2 of 3
whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
campystrength 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: deception
class
love
identity
greed
Places: big city
road trip
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	5
Horror	0
Humour	8
Realism	6
Romance	5
Tension	4
Darkness	2
Complexity	4
Emotional weight	3

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Genres: comedy
Directed by: Claude Zidi
Written by: Jean-Luc Voulfow, Michel Fabre
Starring: Pierre Richard, Jane Birkin, Michel Aumont, Marc Doelnitz, Amadeus August, Henri Déus, Luis Rego, Catherine Allégret
Music: Vladimir Cosma
Cinematography: Henri Decaë
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Country: France, Germany
Languages: French

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