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Oscar (1967)

Oscar poster
Directed by
Édouard Molinaro
Genre
comedy film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 25m
Rated
AL
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 537 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

An industrialist has a very bad day. He learns his daughter is pregnant and that an employee has robbed him. More disasters keep piling up at his home and business.

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What happens

Oscar is a 1967 French comedy of errors directed by Édouard Molinaro and starring Louis de Funès. In the movie, Louis de Funès plays an industrialist named Bertrand Barnier who discovers over the course of a single day that his daughter is pregnant, he has been robbed by an employee, and various other calamities have befallen his household and his business. An English-language version of the movie was made in 1991, by John Landis, under the same name and starring Sylvester Stallone. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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