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The Under-Gifted In Vacation
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Title: The Under-Gifted In Vacation

Release Date: 10 Mar 1982

Runtime: 1h 35m

Genre: Comedy

Director: Films 7

Production Companies: Films 7

Overview: A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants her too. He convinces the luckless guy to act like a fool and the girl leaves him and goes with the singer to the French Rivera.

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Average Vote: 5.402 (256 votes)

Cast

  • Baptiste Laval dit Bébel: Daniel Auteuil
  • Jean-Louis Glomot dit Paul Memphis: Guy Marchand
  • Claudine / Hélène: Grace de Capitani
  • Pétronille: Charlotte de Turckheim
  • l'inventeur du Love Computer: Jean-Paul Farré
  • le chirurgien: Hubert Deschamps
  • Gaëtan: Gaëtan Bloom
  • Graffiti: Patrick Laurent
  • Stéphane: Jean-Paul Lilienfeld
  • Zard: Patrick Zard
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