La Totale! (1991)

Original title

La Totale !

Directed by

Claude Zidi

Genre

spy film

Country

France

Runtime

1h 42m

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 117 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A spy leads a double life as a boring office worker, hiding his dangerous job from his family. His wife, tired of their dull routine, starts an affair with a con artist who claims to be a spy too.

lightheartedplayfulfast-pacedcomicdeceptivesecretivewhimsicalsilly

What happens

La Totale! (English: The Total, a French expression roughly meaning "the complete package") is a 1991 French spy comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Thierry Lhermitte, Miou-Miou, Eddy Mitchell and Michel Boujenah. It centers on a spy (Lhermitte) who lives a double life as an ordinary white collar worker, with his family unaware of his true identity. Meanwhile his wife (Miou-Miou), bored by their monotonous life, begins an affair with a con artist pretending to be a spy (Boujenah). The film was released in France by AMLF on December 18, 1991. It was later the basis for director James Cameron's 1994 action comedy True Lies. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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