An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has been found; she's a truckstop waitress in France. The mobsters' proposition: romance the broad, and get hitched. Or else. Then the crooks can bump her off and keep the casino for themselves...
Acting
Josiane Balasko commits fully to truck-stop Cinderella chaos.
Production
Vegas mobsters in rural France: spectacularly wrong aesthetics.
Director
Claude Zidi
Josiane Balasko
Arlette
Christopher Lambert
Frank Martin
Ennio Fantastichini
Angelo Mascarpone
Stéphane Audran
Diane
Jean-Marie Bigard
Victor
Armelle
Lucie
Martin Lamotte
le chef du routier
Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Lulu
France Zobda
Samantha
Jean-Claude Bouillon
le présentateur
Ronny Coutteure
le patron du routier
Arno Chevrier
Mickey le routier
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was a rare comedy detour for Christopher Lambert, still riding Highlander fame into deeply questionable territory.
Director Claude Zidi specialized in commercial French crowd-pleasers; this was his stab at international crossover with American stars.
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