Five Minute Break
Released: April 14, 1999Runtime: 90 minLanguage: FR
A college student discovers that no good deed goes unpunished in the black comedy Cinq Minutes de Detente (aka A Five Minute Break). Phillippe (Jose Garcia) is a pre-law student at what is described as "a French University in North America." One day during gym class, Phillippe lets a stranger who claims to have a heart condition borrow his shoes for a few minutes. The man then walks across a tar roof, leaving prints from Phillippe's shoes, and shoots a man who's been sleeping with his wife, before returning the shoes to Phillippe. Soon Phillippe's shoes are matched to the crime and he finds himself behind bars.
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Jose Garcia
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Richard Bohringer
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Suzan Anbeh
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Pierre Gobeil
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Pierre Drolet
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Francoise Lepine
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Jean Claude De Goros
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Attica Guedj
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