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La Boîte

2001 · 100 min

A breezy, good-natured French comedy about friends turning a petty snub into a scrappy scheme.

Overview
Five childhood friends, who live in a small provincial town, were excluded from the only nightclub in the region. With nothing else to do they plan to open a competing nightclub in the garage of two of the father of two of them.

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Tone
    Pacing
    brisk, 3 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • friendship
    • ambition
    Places
    • small town
    • 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
    Realism6
    Romance3
    Tension3
    Darkness2
    Complexity2
    Emotional weight3

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    Details

    Genres
    comedy
    Directed by
    Claude Zidi
    Starring
    William Kinganga, Nassim Iazouguen, Roméo Escala, Guy Marchand, Jean-Marie Bigard, Armelle Deutsch, Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Fabrice Deville
    Runtime
    100 min
    Languages
    French

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