My Father the Hero(Mon père, ce héros)
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France · 1991
1h 45m
Director Gérard Lauzier
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Catherine Jacob, Charlotte de Turckheim
Genre Comedy, Drama
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Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...
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