A woman flying to France to confront her straying fiance gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling.A woman flying to France to confront her straying fiance gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling.A woman flying to France to confront her straying fiance gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Suzan Anbeh
- Juliette
- (as Susan Anbeh)
Élisabeth Commelin
- Claire
- (as Elizabeth Commelin)
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- Writer
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Storyline
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- TriviaKevin Kline had a professor to coach him with the French to speak it as a Frenchman. He studied French during his Jr. High/High school years and a year in college. He didn't learn to speak it until he went to Alliance Française in New York.
- GoofsTrains from Paris to Cannes do not go past the Eiffel Tower.
- Crazy creditsNear the beginning of the credits, we hear the voices of Kate and Luc. They talk, and then he sings the song "La Mer."
- SoundtracksLes Yeux de ton Père
Performed by Les Négresses Vertes
Written by Mathieu Crespin, Jean-Marie Paulus, Noel Rota, Stefane Mellino and Mathieu Paulus
Courtesy of Sire Records by arrangement with Warner Special
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Featured review
Delightful romantic comedy, this Frenchman's a charmer
This is a really cute little romantic comedy. The story revolves around a young history teacher, Kate, who's afraid of flying but forces herself to hop on a plane for Paris to try and win back her fiancé, Charlie, who has dumped her for a gorgeous French woman. However, her seat mate on the plane happens to be a charming French crook named Luc, who uses the unsuspecting Kate to smuggle his stolen diamond necklace for him. Then, casting himself as an expert in affairs of the heart, he resolves to help Kate win back her man, later complicated by the fact that he falls for her himself.
Their adventures across France, from Paris to Cannes, in pursuit of the fiancé and his new girlfriend, make for some pretty amusing scenes. The plot is livened up by the repercussions of Luc's larcenous tricks, little sub-plots with a fellow con artist and a cop who owes him a favour. My sole complaint with this movie is a couple of unnecessary f-words and a fair bit of profanity, especially on Kate's part (taking the Lord's name in vain), reflective of the screenwriters' laziness in avoiding clever dialogue in these scenes.
Meg Ryan is her usual cute, bubbly, rather ditsy self in the role of Kate and Timothy Hutton is suitably obnoxious and despicable as Charlie, the fiancé who dumped her. However, the real star of this film is Kevin Kline, who puts genuine charm into the role of this rakishly endearing thief, Luc, and demonstrates an extremely credible French accent, in my opinion. His entire persona here makes it difficult to believe that Kline isn't really French. He must have had a fantastic language coach! Also, there is great on screen chemistry between Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline.
It's a delightful, light hearted film, a good date movie, and not necessarily just a chick flick as my husband enjoyed it too.
Their adventures across France, from Paris to Cannes, in pursuit of the fiancé and his new girlfriend, make for some pretty amusing scenes. The plot is livened up by the repercussions of Luc's larcenous tricks, little sub-plots with a fellow con artist and a cop who owes him a favour. My sole complaint with this movie is a couple of unnecessary f-words and a fair bit of profanity, especially on Kate's part (taking the Lord's name in vain), reflective of the screenwriters' laziness in avoiding clever dialogue in these scenes.
Meg Ryan is her usual cute, bubbly, rather ditsy self in the role of Kate and Timothy Hutton is suitably obnoxious and despicable as Charlie, the fiancé who dumped her. However, the real star of this film is Kevin Kline, who puts genuine charm into the role of this rakishly endearing thief, Luc, and demonstrates an extremely credible French accent, in my opinion. His entire persona here makes it difficult to believe that Kline isn't really French. He must have had a fantastic language coach! Also, there is great on screen chemistry between Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline.
It's a delightful, light hearted film, a good date movie, and not necessarily just a chick flick as my husband enjoyed it too.
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Paris Match
- Filming locations
- Chateau Val Joanis, Pertuis, Vaucluse, France(grape harvest scenes)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $38,896,854
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,018,022
- May 7, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $101,982,854
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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