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"Patate" is the kind of material which works best on stage.It would have been great as part of "Au Théâtre Ce Soir" series.Marcel Achard's play was hardly a comedy and ,although the film often verges on farce ,some of its lines are bitter indeed.Thanks to a good cast,the movie survives a non-existent directing.The subject is not so dumb:we all know someone who has brilliantly succeeded and whose favorite pastime is to put other people down,to humiliate them..Pierre Dux portrays Leon ,nicknamed "Patate" ,a less-than-handsome man whose toys business needs money.He's got a faithful wife (Danielle Darrieux) and a naughty daughter (Sylvie Vartan,the first yeah yeah girl of the era ,then Johnny Hallyday's fiancée;she's also Michael Vartan's aunt).He has to ask his friend(??) handsome Noel (Jean Marais)who has got on in life thanks to his charm and whose wife (Anne Vernon) is a millionaire.He's also Patate's daughter's secret lover.Like this?try this...."Le Dîner De Cons " Francis Veber 1998
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