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A Bad Son (1980)

A Bad Son poster
Original title
Un mauvais fils
Directed by
Claude Sautet
Genre
drama film
Country
France
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
18
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 63 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young man returns to France after serving time for drug crimes in the United States. He struggles to reconnect with his strict father and falls in love with a woman who is also addicted to drugs.

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What happens

A Bad Son (French: Un mauvais fils) is a 1980 French drama film directed by Claude Sautet. It tells the story of a young man who is sent back to France after a sentence for narcotics in the USA and tries to restart his life, but has difficulty relating to his widowed father and suffers the pain of falling in love with a girl who is an addict. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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