''Les Tuche 2 - Le rêve américain'' is a 2016 French

comedy film A comedy film is a category of film which emphasizes humor. These films are designed to make the audience laugh through amusement. Films in this style traditionally have a happy ending (black comedy being an exception). Comedy is one of the ol ...

directed by

Olivier Baroux Olivier Baroux (born 5 January 1964) is a French actor, comedian, writer and director who has acted both on stage and on screen. He first became known in forming with Kad Merad Kad Merad (born Kaddour Merad, ar, قدور ميراد, link=no; ...

. It is the sequel to ''

Les Tuche ''Les Tuche'' is a 2011 French comedy film directed by Olivier Baroux. A sequel, '' Les Tuche 2'', was released on 3 February 2016. Plot The Tuche family is the stereotypical unemployed lower class French family. Jeff (the father) is the proud d ...

''. It earned over US$32.5 million and was the highest-grossing domestic film in France in 2016, with 4,619,884 tickets sold.

Cast

Jean-Paul Rouve Jean-Paul Rouve (born 26 January 1967) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He is a member of the troupe "Les Robins des Bois". He has appeared in more than thirty film and television productions since 1993. Personal li ...

as Jeff Tuche *

Isabelle Nanty Isabelle Nanty (born 21 January 1962) is a French actress, film and theatre director and screenwriter. Career She was a teacher for several years at the Cours Florent, and then received a nomination for the César Award for Most Promising Actres ...

as Cathy Tuche *

Claire Nadeau Claire Nadeau (born 1 June 1945) is a French actress. Theater Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Nadeau, Claire French film actresses 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses Actresses from P ...

as Grandma Suze *

Théo Fernandez Théo Fernandez (born in Toulouse on 18 September 1998) is a French film actor. He is best known for playing the role of Donald Tuche in ''Les Tuche'' (2011), '' Les Tuche 2 - Le rêve américain'' (2016) and '' Les Tuche 3'' (2018). He plays th ...

as Donald Tuche * Sarah Stern as Stéphanie Tuche * Pierre Lottin as Wilfried Tuche * Ralph Amoussou as Georges Diouf *

Darrell Dennis Darrell Dennis is an Indigenous Canadian comedian, actor, screenwriter and radio personality from the Secwepemc Nation in the interior of British Columbia. Darrell’s acting career began at the age of 17 when he walked into his first profession ...

as Indian

Release

''Les Tuche'' 2 was distributed by

Pathé Pathé or Pathé Frères (, styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French people, French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896. In the early 1900s, Pathé became the world's largest ...

in France.

Reception

The Hollywood Reporter ''The Hollywood Reporter'' (''THR'') is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Cinema of the United States, Hollywood film industry, film, television, and entertainment industries. It was founded in 1930 as a daily trade pap ...

'' gave the film a negative review, finding the films comedy as "puerile and naive whenever it’s not straightforwardly moronic", noting a list of American clichés and that "like in local box-office monsters ''

Intouchables ''The Intouchables'' (french: Intouchables, ), also known as ''Untouchable'' in the UK and Ireland, is a 2011 French Buddy film, buddy comedy-drama film written and directed by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano. It stars François Cluzet and Omar ...

'' and ''

Serial (Bad) Weddings ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' (french: Qu'est-ce qu'on a fait au Bon Dieu?, lit=What have we done to the Good Lord?) is a 2014 French comedy film directed by Philippe de Chauveron, and starring Christian Clavier and Chantal Lauby. It is the first ins ...

'', what passes for crude humor in France can be perceived as racially insensitive in the U.S. and elsewhere". The review commented on the writing as "staggeringly lazy and unfocused".

References

External links

* 2016 films 2010s French-language films French comedy films 2016 comedy films Pathé films French sequel films Films directed by Olivier Baroux 2010s French films Foreign films set in the United States {{2010s-France-film-stub