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Les sous-doués

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Les sous-doués (1980)
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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... Read allBaptiste '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, determine... Read allBaptiste '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 ... Read all
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    • Director
      • Claude Zidi
    • Writers
      • Michel Fabre
      • Didier Kaminka(dialogue)
      • Claude Zidi(dialogue)
    • Stars
      • Michel Galabru
      • Maria Pacôme
      • Daniel Auteuil
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Claude Zidi
    • Writers
      • Michel Fabre
      • Didier Kaminka(dialogue)
      • Claude Zidi(dialogue)
    • Stars
      • Michel Galabru
      • Maria Pacôme
      • Daniel Auteuil
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    • 10User reviews
    • 5Critic reviews

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    Bande-annonce [OV]
    Trailer 2:36
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    Michel Galabru
    Michel Galabru
    • Le commissaire
    Maria Pacôme
    Maria Pacôme
    • Lucie Jumaucourt
    • (as Maria Pacome)
    Daniel Auteuil
    Daniel Auteuil
    • Baptiste Lavalle, alias Bebel
    Philippe Taccini
    • Julien Senquin
    Tonie Marshall
    Tonie Marshall
    • Catherine Jumaucourt
    Hubert Deschamps
    Hubert Deschamps
    • Léon Jumaucourt
    Raymond Bussières
    Raymond Bussières
    • Gaston
    • (as Raymond Bussieres)
    Georges Anderson
    • Le père de Togo
    Féodor Atkine
    Féodor Atkine
    • Le père de MC 2
    • (as Feodor Atkine)
    Henri Attal
    Henri Attal
    • Mohammed
    Gaëtan Bloom
    • Gaëtan
    • (as Gaetan Bloom)
    Richard Bohringer
    Richard Bohringer
    • Le pion
    Jean Cherlian
    • Le menuisier
    • (as Jean Cherian)
    Etienne Draber
    • Le père de Julien
    Hélène Dublin
    • Sarah
    • (as Helene Dublin)
    Katherine Erhardy
    Katherine Erhardy
    • Jeanne Hamilton
    • (as Catherine Erhardy)
    Dominique Hulin
    • Bruce Kateka
    Patrick Laurent
    • Graffiti
    • Director
      • Claude Zidi
    • Writers
      • Michel Fabre
      • Didier Kaminka(dialogue)
      • Claude Zidi(dialogue)
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    • Goofs
      The prank with the hearing aid wouldn't work because the professor would hear his own amplified voice when saying "speak louder" to the pupils.
    • Connections
      Featured in La boîte à bonus de la boîte à bac (2014)

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    10/10
    Huge hit!
    Like any other in pop culture, Japan seems always to be very adaptable anything that is "cool", with knowing of meaning of it isn't important. The celebration of Christmas Day is long gone.

    Yes, I do remember this movie, of course. This was a huge hit in Japan when I was growing up... Japanese titled "The Cunning: IQ=0". I was in my first or second grade, all the kids learned the tricks of cheating exams, well, not during the real exams, but to act like those kids in the movie. That was a real fun to do.

    And if I was right, there was a sequence of this film. Either way, I wish this movie was more well-distributed than it was, to this day, it remains as a "cult" film.

    We enjoyed it a lot in Japan back then, it is so cool movie, we even did not know (or bother to know) this is from France.
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    • Release date
      • April 30, 1980 (France)
    • Country of origin
      • France
    • Languages
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • The Under-Gifted
    • Filming locations
      • Paris, France
    • Production company
      • Films 7
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 32 minutes
    • Sound mix
      • Mono
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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