Guardian Angels(Les Anges gardiens)
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France · 1995
1h 50m
Director Jean-Marie Poiré
Starring Gérard Depardieu, Christian Clavier, Eva Grimaldi, Yves Rénier
Genre Comedy, Crime
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Gerard Depardieu plays a sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective who flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob. He leaves the boy in the hands of an earnest priest (Christian Clavier), who escorts him back to Paris. Soon Clavier and Depardieu are fighting it out, each shadowed by his good or evil guardian angel.
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