Big Is Beautiful

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Big Is Beautiful
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French Mince alors!
Directed by Charlotte de Turckheim
Written byCharlotte de Turckheim
Gladys Marciano
Jeanne Le Guillou
Produced by Dominique Besnehard
Anne Derré
Michel Feller
Christine Gozlan
Starring Victoria Abril
Lola Dewaere
Catherine Hosmalin
CinematographyPierre Aïm
Edited byScott Stevenson
Music byÉric Neveux
Production
companies
Distributed by UGC Distribution
Release date
  • 28 March 2012 (2012-03-28)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$8 million [1]
Box office$11.6 million [2]

Big Is Beautiful (French : Mince alors!) is a 2012 French comedy film, directed by Charlotte de Turckheim and starring Lola Dewaere, Victoria Abril and Catherine Hosmalin.

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Plot

The young, round and lovely Nina is married to Gaspard, who, unfortunately, rather likes very thin women. The couple move to Paris and Nina is preparing to launch a sophisticated line of swimwear. Because of her love for her husband, Nina accepts his ambiguous gift: a slimming treatment at Brides-les-Bains, considered "the last hope of the fat". There, she makes two flamboyant friends. Sophie, a lawyer from Marseille who likes to control everything, including herself. Émilie is a caregiver whose weight has begun to affect her health and her love life yet her motto remains, "Big is beautiful".

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References

  1. "Mince alors! (2012) - JPBox-Office".
  2. "Big is Beautiful".