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French Postcards

French Postcards

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French Postcards

"American students go to Paris...The less they study the more they learn."

1979

1h 35m

5.1(10 votes)

Comedy

Drama

Romance

Overview

French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.

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Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

David Marshall Grant

David Marshall Grant

Alex

Miles Chapin

Miles Chapin

Joel

Valérie Quennessen

Valérie Quennessen

Toni

Debra Winger

Debra Winger

Melanie

Marie-France Pisier

Marie-France Pisier

Madame Tessier

Jean Rochefort

Jean Rochefort

Monsieur Tessier

Blanche Baker

Blanche Baker

Laura

Lynn Carlin

Lynn Carlin

Mrs. Weber

George Coe

George Coe

Mr. Weber

Mandy Patinkin

Mandy Patinkin

Sayyid

Creative team

Directed by: Willard Huyck
Written by: Gloria Katz
Willard Huyck
Produced by: Gloria Katz

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