Santa Claus Is a Stinker
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Director Jean-Marie Poire Genre Comedy Country France | 7.8/10 IMDb Featured song Destinee Duration Language French | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 25 August 1982 (1982-08-25) Writer Josiane Balasko, Marie-Anne Chazel, Christian Clavier, Gerard Jugnot, Thierry Lhermitte, Bruno Moynot, Jean-Marie Poire Cast (Katia), (Thérèse), (Zézette), (Pierre Mortez), (Madame Musquin), (Félix) Similar movies Christian Clavier movies, Christmas movies, Comedies |
Santa Claus Is a Stinker or Le père Noël est une ordure is a cult French comedy play created in 1979 by the troupe Le Splendid and turned into a film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré in 1982.
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Plot

Pierre a stuffy, self-righteous volunteer at a telephone helpline for depressed people and his well-meaning but naïve co-worker Thérèse, are stuck with the Christmas Eve shift in the Paris office, much to their displeasure.

The building's lift is malfunctioning, and they receive visits from unwanted callers: Katia, a depressed transvestite who tries to hit on Pierre, M. Preskovic who lives in the same building and always turns up unexepectedly to offer them various unappetizing pastries and Josette, a heavily pregnant woman on the run from her violent fiancé Félix. Félix is working as a Santa Claus during the season and turns up on her trail in costume and brandishing a gun. Félix and Josette, a caricature trailer trash couple, end up struggling over the gun and accidentally shooting dead the lift repairman, whom they then butcher and feed to zoo animals.
English (US) remake of the film

In 1994 the basic plot was used by writer/director Nora Ephron to develop the US film Mixed Nuts.
Cast
References
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