Odd Job (film)

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Odd Job
Un petit boulot.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Un petit boulot
Directed by Pascal Chaumeil
Screenplay by Michel Blanc
Based onSince the Layoffs
by Iain Levison
Produced byYann Arnaud
Genevieve Lemal
Starring Romain Duris
Michel Blanc
Cinematography Manuel Dacosse
Edited bySylvie Landra
Music byMathieu Lamboley
Production
companies
Gaumont Film Company
Scope Pictures
Distributed by Gaumont Film Company
Release dates
  • 1 August 2016 (2016-08-01)(Fantasia)
  • 31 August 2016 (2016-08-31)(France)
Running time
100 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$8.8 million [1]
Box office$3 million [2]

Odd Job (French: Un petit boulot) is a 2016 French comedy film directed by Pascal Chaumeil. [3] [4]

Contents

Plot

Jacques lives in a small town where all the inhabitants were put on straw stock following a dismissal. The factory closed, his girlfriend is gone and debts accumulate. So when the Mafia bookmaker corner him, asking him to kill his wife, Jacques gladly accepts.

Cast

Production

This is the last film Pascal Chaumeil directed, before he died on 27 August 2015.

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References

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  2. "Odd Job".
  3. "Un petit boulot". Fantasia.
  4. "Bande-annonce Un petit boulot : Romain Duris s'improvise tueur à gages pour Michel Blanc". AlloCiné. 7 July 2016.