La Totale! (1991)
Directed by Claude Zidi
Genres - Comedy |
Sub-Genres - Adventure Comedy, Spy Comedy |
Release Date - Dec 20, 1991 (USA - Unknown) |
Run Time - 100 min. |
Countries - France, United States |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Clarke Fountain
François (Thierry Lhermitte) has convinced his wife and nearly everyone else that he is a pleasant, downtrodden civil servant who has been immured in a dead-end job. In reality, he is a very competent secret operative for the government. Meanwhile, Helene (Miou-Miou), the mother of his two children, has grown bored with her dull husband and is considering whether or not she should have an affair with an attractively sleazy used-car salesman who has been feeding her his standard seduction line: that he's a secret agent (which, in his case, is a lie). When François discovers this, he concocts a plan to teach his wife a lesson, which grows unexpectedly complicated when the two of them stumble across an international arms-smuggling cartel.
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double-life, assumed-identity, government-agent, smuggling, arms [military weapons], espionage, extramarital-affair, family, secret-agent, servant, terrorist