The Valet

Name: The Valet
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2006-03-29
Duration: 1 h 25 min
Rating: 7
Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry

La Doublure (2006)

Timing: 1:25 (85 min)

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Video for the film The Valet — The Valet | Official Trailer (2006)

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Release date

2006-03-29

Country

France

Production

Gaumont, TF1 Films Production, EFVE, Kairos

Genre

Comedy

Budget

Box office

$29 326 868

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Director

Francis Veber

Actors

Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry, Virginie Ledoyen, Dany Boon, Michel Jonasz, Michel Aumont, Laurent Gamelon
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Scenario

Francis Veber, Declan May

Producer

Patrice Ledoux, Francesco Pamphili, Candice Zaccagnino

Camera operator

Robert Fraisse

Composer

Alexandre Desplat

Artist

Dominique André

Audition

Françoise Menidrey

Editing

Georges Klotz
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Short description

Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.

What's left behind the scenes

Towards the end of the film, François Pinion's father (played by Gad Elmaleh) tells him that he has received an invitation to lunch, where he will be talking about his corkscrew collection. This is a reference to Francis Weber's film “The Dinner Game” (1998), where the main character is also named François Pinion, and where he talks about his matchstick models.