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Le Placard
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Le Placard

2015-05-29 · 85 min · ★ 5.4

Comedy

François Pignon, an accountant in a condom factory, learns that he is going to be fired. Already overwhelmed by personal problems, he decides to throw himself out the window. He is stopped in his tracks by his next-door neighbor who suggests an unexpected plan to keep his job: pretend to be a homosexual. Assuming that in this age of political correctness, one does not fire a gay man, he manages to convince Pignon to play along while remaining a discreet and shy little man... What will change is the way others look at him. Pignon will thus benefit from an unusual reintegration by coming out of a closet where he had never entered.

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Directors
Dominique Thiel
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Countries
France
Status
Released

Top Cast

Élie SemounÉlie SemounFrançois Pignon
Laurent GamelonLaurent GamelonFelix Santini
Philippe MagnanPhilippe MagnanJean-Pierre Belone
Zoé FélixZoé FélixMademoiselle Bertrand
François LevantalFrançois LevantalMessieurs Kopel
Laurent PaoliniGuillaume
Marie FacundoMarie FacundoAriane

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