103 mins |
Rated
M
He's lived too long off his parents and it's time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. A one-time gigolo and a borderline bum, he knows what he wants -- to become rich and famous. He even has a business plan: tourism combined with cheap plastic surgery. Jacques moves in with his older sister, Monique, who manages an Emmaus village in the south west of France. And before long, the smooth-talking chancer has convinced a group of workers to pool their meager funds and set out on a trip to a clinic in Bulgaria, where all their dreams of a brighter and more beautiful future will all come true.
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He's lived too long off his parents and it's time for 40-year-old slacker Jacques to get by on his own. A one-time gigolo and a borderline bum, he knows what he wants -- to become rich and famous. He even has a business plan: tourism combined with cheap plastic surgery. Jacques moves in with his older sister, Monique, who manages an Emmaus village in the south west of France. And before long, the smooth-talking chancer has convinced a group of workers to pool their meager funds and set out on a trip to a clinic in Bulgaria, where all their dreams of a brighter and more beautiful future will all come true.