Les sous-doués

Apr 30 1980 N/A 1h 32m
Comedy

The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!

Plot

Baptiste 'Bebel' Lavalle and his classmates in Versailles' private high-school Louis XIV enjoy their carefree life enough to deliberately fail the exams, a national record of zero graduating pupils. Permissive headmaster Léon Jumaucourt's bitchy wife Lucie takes charge, determined to make them pass. She's no match for Bebel's tricks, despite cruel abuse, but the gang also annoys the public, including the dumb police commissioner. After a mix-up between their bomb-alert prop and a real terrorist group's African embassy attack, Bebel's bunch is condemned to pass their exams or go to jail, and the commissioner, charged with supervision, is in no mood to let them off easily.

Written by

Michel Fabre, Didier Kaminka, Claude Zidi

Directed by

Claude Zidi

Cast

Michel Galabru, Maria Pacôme, Daniel Auteuil

Crew

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Production Countries

France

Production Companies

Films 7

Languages

Français

Awards

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Scores
# of Votes
4,566
Average Rating
6.5 out of 10
Metascore
NA
Popularity
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