L'animal

Oct 5 1977 Not Rated 1h 40m
Action, Comedy, Romance

Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.

Plot

A movie about good-for-nothing stuntman Mike Gaucher (Jean-Paul Belmondo), who can't do one single job without something going wrong. His fiancée wants to kill him, the film studios don't want to give him any more work and, as King Kong for a promotion in a supermarket, he winds up destroying some display shelves. The only role he plays well is pretending not to be able to hear, speak, and walk in order to get money from the government. Then along comes the "beautiful" actor called Bruno Ferrari (Jean-Paul Belmondo). Supposedly a fearless stuntman, Ferrari turns out to be afraid of heights once his feet leave the ground. So a stuntman is needed to prevent a scandal. And who is the man who looks most (or exactly) like Bruno? You guessed it, good-for-nothing Mike.

Written by

Michel Audiard, Dominique Fabre, Claude Zidi

Directed by

Claude Zidi

Cast

Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Dany Saval

Crew

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Production Countries

France

Production Companies

Cerito Films, Les Films Christian Fechner

Languages

Français

Awards

1 win & 1 nomination

Scores
# of Votes
3,506
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
NA