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I Do (2006)

I Do poster
Original title
Prête-moi ta main
Directed by
Éric Lartigau
Genre
romantic comedy
Country
France
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
AL
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 350 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A man hires a woman to pretend to be his fiancee to get his family to stop pressuring him to marry. She eventually becomes trapped in the role as the situation grows more complicated.

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What happens

I Do (French: Prête-moi ta main; lit. 'Lend me your hand') or Rent a Wife (international working title), is a 2006 French romantic comedy film directed by Éric Lartigau, based on an original idea by Alain Chabat. The film stars Charlotte Gainsbourg, Alain Chabat and Bernadette Lafont. It is Chabat and Gainsbourg's third collaboration, after Ils se marièrent et eurent beaucoup d'enfants (2004) and The Science of Sleep (2006). This film was officially remade into an Indian Telugu language film Manmadhudu 2 released in August 2019. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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