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It is a remake of the French 2011 film The Intouchables, which was itself inspired by the lives of Abdel Sallou and Philippe Pozzo di Borgo. The film follows a paralyzed billionaire ( Bryan Cranston ) who strikes up an unlikely friendship with a recently paroled convict ( Kevin Hart ) whom he hires to take care of him.
The Intouchables (French: Intouchables, pronounced [ɛ̃tuʃablə]), also known as Untouchable in the UK, Ireland, and Scandinavia, [2] [circular reference] is a 2011 French buddy comedy-drama film written and directed by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache.
In vignettes throughout the movie, Patrice portrays her younger self amid an ensemble of child actors (more than 100; some with disabilities) who play people from Patrice’s past in scenes that ...
In the French- and Romanian-language film, three hearing characters' lives intersect. One of the characters is a teacher at a school for deaf children, and one of his students is his little sister. [15] [2] Compensation: 1999: The film features two love stories set in Chicago – one at the turn of the 20th century, the other in contemporary times.
The film made a successful debut in France in 1981 with 2,281,569 admissions, and had success in the U.S. the next year, grossing $2,678,103. [2] The film was selected as the French entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 54th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. Diva became a cult classic and was internationally acclaimed.
CODA is a 2021 coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Sian Heder.An English-language remake of the 2014 French-Belgian film La Famille Bélier, it stars Emilia Jones as Ruby Rossi, the child of deaf adults (CODA) and only hearing member of her family, who attempts to help her family's struggling fishing business while pursuing her aspirations to become a singer.
Custody (French: Jusqu'à la garde, lit. 'Up to the Hilt') is a 2017 French drama film written and directed by Xavier Legrand and starring Denis Ménochet, Léa Drucker and Thomas Gioria. It was screened in the main competition section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival where it won the Silver Lion.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (French: Le Scaphandre et le Papillon) is a 2007 biographical drama film directed by Julian Schnabel and written by Ronald Harwood.Based on Jean-Dominique Bauby's 1997 memoir, the film depicts Bauby's life after suffering a massive stroke that left him with a condition known as locked-in syndrome.