Release Date

27 Sep, 1989

Runtime

01:40: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.

Original Title

I Want to Go Home

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Actors

Laura Benson

Adolph Green

Linda Lavin

Gérard Depardieu

Geraldine Chaplin

François-Eric Gendron

Georges Fricker

John Ashton

Caroline Silhol

Micheline Presle

Patrick Bonnel

Charlotte Bonnet

Isabelle Wolfe

Jean-Marc Cozic

Tony Dias

Guillaume Farny

Alain Fromager

Peter Hudson

Raphaëline Goupilleau

Isabelle Habiague

Ludivine Sagnier

Crew

Jules Feiffer

Alain Resnais

Claude Moesching

Catherine Leterrier

Sylvie Lorthiois

Nicole Chaubet

Thi-Loan Nguyen

Philippe Turlure

Jacques Saulnier

Patrick Villain

Christian Ferry

Charles Van Damme

Albert Jurgenson

John Kander