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A French comedy from French master, Francis Veber (The Valet, The Dinner Game).
Francois Pignon (Patrick Timsit), whose wife (Virginie Ledoyen)...
A French comedy from French master, Francis Veber (The Valet, The Dinner Game).
Francois Pignon (Patrick Timsit), whose wife (Virginie Ledoyen) has just left him for a shrink, checks into the same Nice hotel as hitman Ralf (Richard Berry). Ralf is there to stake out a key witness in a major corruption trial, while Pignon plans to hang himself in the bathroom. Their adjoining rooms bring them together; the perfect killer and the perfect pest. Complications cement their relationship as Pignon’s fondness for the cold-as-ice assassin grows stronger.
This is a re-make of Veber's own 1973 film, which was adapted from his own play.
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63 %8 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
48 %114 reviewsAudience score rating
"Lands neither the performances nor the gags needed to make this hotel room farce anything more than painfully unfunny."
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Variety
Variety"Francis Veber's touch of the absurd is in fine form in his latest comedy of errors involving a crim, a hitman, a suicidal jilted husband, his adulterous wife, her shrink lover and the hotel butler."
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Urban Cinefile
Urban Cinefile"Without being in the same league as last year's brilliant In Bruges, the comedy here sometimes comes from a deliciously dark place."
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Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald"A 'Pain in the Ass' is pretty much definitely the best comedy playing in town this week."
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Christchurch Press
Christchurch PressA Pain in the Ass (L'emmerdeur) | Details
- Rating
- M, contains violence & offensive language
- Runtime
- 80
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country of origin
- France
