Le pari

1997 [FRENCH]

Action / Comedy

4
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 57%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 57% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.3/10 10 4711 4.7K

smoking cigarette

Plot summary

Two rival "brothers-in-law" make a bet that they can stop smoking for 2 weeks. But, it's just not that easy...

Director

Didier Bourdon Photo
Didier Bourdon

Top cast

Régis Laspalès Photo
Régis Laspalès as Gilbert
Albert Dray Photo
Albert Dray
Jean-Roger Milo Photo
Jean-Roger Milo as Le poloicier
Hélène Surgère Photo
Hélène Surgère as Mme Ramirez
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
898.86 MB
1280*688
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 4
1.63 GB
1904*1024
French 2.0
NR
Subtitles fr  
24 fps
1 hr 37 min
Seeds 11

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by dbdumonteil

Not as good and funny as "les trois frères"...

In 1995, the movie "les trois frères" made by the French comic trio Les Inconnus and was very successful. Two of them felt like renewing with this success and for this, they chose to make a movie about tobacco. It deals with 2 brothers who hate themselves: the first one is a rich chemist and the second one is a modest teacher. One day, during a family meal, they put themselves to the test: they mustn't smoke for a fortnight. Their troubles have just begun...At the beginning, the movie rather turns out to be promising because the starting point is interesting. Alas! the more the movie advances and the more it wanders from the topic. As a consequence, the plot becomes non-existent and you deal with a labored comedy that doesn't avoid clichés linked to tobacco. And this comedy's got trouble sustaining the interest. Moreover, comic effects often fall flat and Pascal Légitimus' absence is something that you feel.In the long run, "Le pari" is less funny and entertaining than the Inconnus' previous movie. To forget without remorse.
Reviewed by leplatypus 10 / 10

A winning one (tv)

It's very close to « Les 3 Frêres » : a really funny comedy which pits upper/lower families in a big exploding crisis. The only difference is the absence of Legitimus. In a way, it's the kind of movies that is currently not produced anymore as today french comedies are like American ones totally devoted to rich idle people. Here, on contrary, the two partners looks like us, the (paying and working) audience. So that's the key to get into the story and thus we pay attention to the characters, we can exchange with them, we can recognize ourselves or find inspiration. With those guys, their trademark is to have fun but always coupled with a social content, here the smoking habit. And as the best comedy, the drama is never far away so it's really an intelligent and engaging movie that brings a good moment!
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