Les Tuche

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Les Tuche
Les Tuche.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Olivier Baroux
Written byPhilippe Mechelen
Chantal Lauby
Olivier Baroux
Produced by Richard Grandpierre
Arthur (associate producer)
Starring Jean-Paul Rouve
Isabelle Nanty
CinematographyArnaud Stefani
Edited byRichard Marizy
Music byMartin Rappeneau
Production
companies
Pathé
Eskwad
Distributed byPathé
Release date
  • 1 July 2011 (2011-07-01)(France)
Running time
95 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$12.4 million [1]
Box office$13.9 million [2]

Les Tuche is a 2011 French comedy film directed by Olivier Baroux. [3] [4] Three sequels had been released since the first opus.

Contents

In the film, a perpetually unemployed lower class family wins a fortune in a lottery. The nouveau riche family then attempts to fit in with the upper class in Monaco.

Plot

The Tuche family is the stereotypical unemployed lower class French family.

Jeff (the father) is the proud descendant of the unemployment welfare inventor, and has never worked a day in his life. Out of his 3 kids, the youngest one seems to be extremely intelligent. This will come in handy when all of a sudden, they win €100 million in the lottery, and will attempt to fit in Monaco's upper class.

Cast

Remake

An Italian remake entitled Poveri ma ricchi (lit. 'Poor but rich') was released in December 2016. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Les Tuche (2011) - JPBox-Office".
  2. ↑ "The Tuche Family".
  3. ↑ "Les Tuche". unifrance.org. Retrieved 2015-07-19.
  4. ↑ "Les Tuche". cineuropa.org. Retrieved 2015-07-19.
  5. ↑ Vasini, Michela (16 December 2016). "Poveri ma ricchi, la recensione della commedia di Fausto Brizzi" (in Italian). CineAvatar. Retrieved 15 July 2020.
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