''La Ch'tite famille'' is a 2018 French film directed and starring

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 ...

Cast

: Valentin Duquenne *

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: Mother Duquenne *

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* Living people French film actresses 21st-century French actresses 1982 births People from Angoulême ...

: Constance Brandt *

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: Louloute *

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: Gustave *

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: Alexander *

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: Jacques Duquenne * Juliane Lepoureau : Britney * Judi Beecher : Kate Fischer *

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: Minister of Culture *

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: Himself * Julia Vignali : Herself *

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: Himself *

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: Himself *

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: Herself

Production

Jordan Mintzer of ''

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'' stated that the film was not specifically a sequel to Boon's previous film ''

Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis ''Welcome to the Sticks'' (, ) is a 2008 French comedy film directed and co-written by Dany Boon and starring Kad Merad and Boon himself. The film is the highest-grossing French film of all time at the box office in France. Plot Philippe Abram ...

'', but was "closer to a spinoff project". Boon stated that in 2014 he wrote a second draft of a follow-up to ''Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis'' but that he "wasn’t that happy with it, something was missing." While working on ''

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'', Boon began re-developing ''La Ch'tite famille''.

Release

''La Ch'tite famille'' was released in France on 28 February 2018. On its opening weekend in France, the film grossed $16,739,183 in France, debuted in first place at the French box office. The film grossed a total of $46,316,363 in France.

Reception

Mintzer of ''The Hollywood Reporter'' stated that Boon "takes his concept as far as it can go and then some, nailing a few solid laughs along the way but running out of steam after the midway mark."

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ch'tite Famille, La French comedy films 2010s French-language films Pathé films 2018 comedy films Films directed by Dany Boon 2010s French films French-language comedy films