''Radin!'' 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
Fred Cavayé. It stars
Dany Boon
Dany Boon (; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.
Starting out as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the film comedy ''Welcome to ...
,
Laurence Arné,
Noémie Schmidt and
Patrick Ridremont.
Cast
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Dany Boon
Dany Boon (; born Daniel Farid Hamidou on 26 June 1966) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.
Starting out as a comedian during the 1990s, he found success in 2008 as an actor and director in the film comedy ''Welcome to ...
as François Gautier
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Laurence Arné as Valérie
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Noémie Schmidt as Laura
* Patrick Ridremont as Cédric
* Christophe Canard as Gilles
* Christophe Favre as Demeester
* Karina Marimon as Carole
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Sébastien Chabal
Sébastien Chabal (born 8 December 1977) is a French former rugby union player. He played number eight and lock for Bourgoin (1998–2004), Sale Sharks (2004–2009), Racing Métro 92 Paris (2009 – February 2012), and for the French national ...
as himself
Release
''Radin!'' was released in France on 28 September 2016, where it topped the box office during its opening week with 1,002,709 entries.
Reception
''
The Hollywood Reporter
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'' found that the film provided "a handful of decent laughs" but it "ultimately runs out of comic steam about midway through" and that "the third-act twist that makes it all happen is one of the easiest, lamest screenwriting tools in the book."
References
External links
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2016 films
2016 comedy films
2010s French-language films
French comedy films
Films directed by Fred Cavayé
Films scored by Klaus Badelt
2010s French films
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