My Father the Hero (1991)
Original title: Mon père, ce héros
My Father the Hero is a 1991 French-language comedy movie directed by Gérard Lauzier, with a running time of 1h 45m. It stars Gérard Depardieu, Marie Gillain and Catherine Jacob.
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...
Cast
- Gérard Depardieu as André Arnel
- Marie Gillain as Véronique "Véro" Arnel
- Catherine Jacob as Christelle
- Charlotte de Turckheim as Irina
- Gérard Hérold as Patrick
- Patrick Mille as Benjamin
- Benoît Allemane as Notable
- Harriet Batchelor as Benjamin's girlfriend
- Sultan Beeharry
- Éric Berger as Julien
- Franck-Olivier Bonnet as The bartender
- Yan Brian as Benjamin's father