The Valet

The Valet

6.0IMDb Score
Released:2006-03-29
Genre:Comedy
Duration:85 min
Country:France
Director:Francis Veber
Actors:Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott Thomas, Richard Berry
Production:Gaumont, EFVE, Kairos, TF1 Films Production

Overview:

Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.

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