You Don't Choose Your Family
Released: November 9, 2011Runtime: 103 minLanguage: FR
César Borgnoli, an unsuccessful car salesman from Italy, lives well beyond his means. In order to get out of his financial disaster, he agrees to a deal: he pretends to be the husband of his sister's girlfriend Kim so she can legally adopt a little girl from Thailand. Caesar believes this to be a great idea and is looking forward to his trip to Thailand. After all, he is going to be able to mix business with pleasure--so he thinks. He didn't expect the local police, the Chinese Triads and the director of the orphanage to chip in, who want to make sure that little Mai is going to end up in a nice family.
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Christian Clavier
as César Borgnoli
Jean Reno
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Muriel Robin
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Helena Noguerra
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Michel Vuillermoz
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Maily Florentin Dao
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Helene Patarot
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Anna Gaylor
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Caroline Anglade
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