While his three former college friends - Thierry, Gérard and Francis have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make the grade. Tired of Daniel's frequent attempts to drag them into ill-considered ventures, Thierry and Gérard decide to play a cruel trick on him by making him think he has won the national lottery.
Acting
Cluzet's smug superiority practically oozes through the screen
Direction
Zidi balances genuine cruelty with slapstick precision
Production
Glossy 80s corporate aesthetics aged like expensive cheese
Director
Claude Zidi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures France's 1980s 'golden boy' business culture perfectly—these characters are the exact archetypes that would collapse in the 2008 crisis.
François Cluzet was already typecast as smug elites; he'd later play the disabled hero of The Intouchables, proving French cinema loves redemption arcs.
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