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Les convoyeurs attendent

  • 19991999
  • 1h 34m
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6.8/10
1.3K
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Benoît Poelvoorde in Les convoyeurs attendent (1999)
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Dreaming of more than his routine life, a father pushes his 15 years old son to break a world record: opening and closing a door 40,000 times in 24 hours.Dreaming of more than his routine life, a father pushes his 15 years old son to break a world record: opening and closing a door 40,000 times in 24 hours.Dreaming of more than his routine life, a father pushes his 15 years old son to break a world record: opening and closing a door 40,000 times in 24 hours.
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1.3K
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    • Benoît Mariage
    • Emmanuelle Bada
    • Benoît Mariage
    • Jean-Luc Seigle
  • Stars
    • Benoît Poelvoorde
    • Morgane Simon
    • Bouli Lanners
    • Benoît Mariage
    • Emmanuelle Bada
    • Benoît Mariage
    • Jean-Luc Seigle
  • Stars
    • Benoît Poelvoorde
    • Morgane Simon
    • Bouli Lanners
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    • 9User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
    • 73Metascore
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    Benoît Poelvoorde
    Benoît Poelvoorde
    • Roger Closset - le père
    Morgane Simon
    • Louise Closset - la fille
    Bouli Lanners
    Bouli Lanners
    • Coach
    Dominique Baeyens
    Dominique Baeyens
    • Madeleine Closset - la mère
    Philippe Grand'Henry
    • Felix
    Jean-François Devigne
    • Michel Closset - le fils
    Lisa Lacroix
    • Jocelyne
    Philippe Nahon
    Philippe Nahon
    • Overseer
    Édith Le Merdy
    Édith Le Merdy
    • Edith (Jocelyne's mother)
    Patrick Audin
    • Patrick (Jocelyne's father)
    Claude Caudron
    • Schoolteacher
    Simone Tasiaux
    • Radio announcer
    Renaud Rutten
    • Pushy pigeion raiser
    Martin Viot
    • Child on the empty lot
    Joshua Noppe
    • Child on the empty lot
    Marianne Brizi
    • Child on the empty lot
    Antoine Berger
    • Child on the empty lot
    Aurelien Viot
    • Child on the empty lot
      • Benoît Mariage
      • Emmanuelle Bada
      • Benoît Mariage
      • Jean-Luc Seigle
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    • Trivia
      The unusual title is actually a term used by pigeon-fanciers meaning "the carriers are waiting". It's used when a race has been delayed due to inclement weather.
    • Connections
      Featured in At the Movies: Instinct/The Loss of Sexual Innocence/Limbo (1999)
    • Soundtracks
      Take My Hands
      Written by Stéphane Huguenin, Yves Sanna

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    Dark humor from Belgium
    The movie is set in rural Belgium, in a place inhabited by poor, gloomy people who do not look like Julia Roberts or Hugh Grant. The "hero", a clueless photographer for a local newspaper, is a father who decides that his family deserves better : the only way out appears to be in the Guinness Books of Records. After a failed attempt at spitting olive stones as far as he can, he forces his son to be the next world champion of door openings so that the family can get a new car... This movie is a unique mix of gritty social comment (though not heavy-handed) and dark humour, something often to be found in recent movies from Belgium, the Netherlands and North of France (Benoit Poelvoorde was also the hero of "Man Bites Dog"). Some of the strangest people we meet (a Belgian Elvis, a school teacher right out of the 50's) are in fact playing themselves, and the scenario itself is based on the true story of a father who trained his 3-year old son to be a professional biker. Certainly not for all tastes, and with its share of very dark humour and a little brush of tragedy, and with a fantastic Poelvoorde, "Les convoyeurs" will please the viewers who enjoy "different" movies.
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    • Sep 29, 1999

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      • May 19, 1999 (Belgium)
      • France
      • Belgium
      • Switzerland
      • French
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      • K-Star
      • K2 SA
      • Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF)
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    • 1 hour 34 minutes
      • Black and White
      • Dolby Digital

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