 JUST
VISITING
It causes the audience to
look at things in a fresh way and wonder how well we would transplant
in a strange and bizarre situation.
-REVIEW BY BETTY HAMM |
JUST VISITING
(2001)
This page was created on April 25, 2001
This page was last updated on
May 23, 2005
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 Directed
by Jean-Marie Gaubert and Jean-Marie Poir?
1993 screenplay Les Visiteurs: Christian Clavier and Jean-Marie
Poir?
Screenplay: Christian Clavier, Jean-Marie Poir?, & John Hughes
Jean
Reno .... Count Thibault
Christian Clavier .... Andr?
Christina Applegate .... Rosalind/Julia
Matt Ross .... Hunter
Tara
Reid .... Angelique
 Bridgette
Wilson .... Amber
John Aylward .... Byron
George Plimpton .... Dr. Brady
Malcolm McDowell .... Wizard
Sarah Badel .... Queen
Bill Bailey .... Thibault's Father
Clare Welch .... Thibault's Mother
Kendra Torgan .... Thibault's Sister
Lucy Blair .... Thibault's Sister #2
Richard Bremmer .... King Henry
 Produced
by John Alan Amicarella (associate producer), Christian Clavier
(associate producer), Richard Hashimoto (executive producer), Patrice
Ledoux (producer), Ricardo Mestres (producer), Jean-Marie Poir?
(associate producer)
Original music by John Powell
Additional music by James McKee Smith and Geoff Zanelli
Cinematography by Ueli Steiger
Film Editing by Michael A. Stevenson
Rated PG13
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They're
not just from another time,
they're from France.
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 STUDIO
SYNOPSIS:
"Just Visiting" is an American retelling of the 1993 French comedy
blockbuster "Les Visiteurs," in which stars Jean Reno and Christian
Clavier reprise their popular roles for original director Jean-Marie
Gaubert. In the film, a French nobleman, Count Thibault of Malfete
(JEAN RENO, right), and his servant Andr? (CHRISTIAN CLAVIER, left)
find themselves in modern-day Chicago, transported from the 12th century
due to a wizard's flawed time-travel potion. Confused, lost, and overwhelmed,
they meet Thibault's descendant Julia Malfete (CHRISTINA APPLEGATE)
and her scheming fianc?, Hunter (MATTHEW ROSS). Thibault and Andr?
soon realize they must quickly find a way back to their own time ?
otherwise Julia and all of Thibault's lineage will never exist. With
their timeless values of honor and courage, Thibault and Andr? wreak
hilarious havoc as they foil diabolical plots in both the 12th and
21st centuries. |
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Do
You Need A Dragon Taken Down To Size?
REVIEW
BY BETTY HAMM
bhamm@efcn.org
Arts Director
Evangelical Free Church
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  Do
You Need A Dragon Taken Down To Size? This film is an American remake
of a French film also with Jean Reno and Christian Clavier. |
 It
is the tale of an 11th-century French knight and his squire who are
accidentally transported to modern America by a wizard. |
  I
thoroughly enjoyed watching these two explore our time. Their reactions
to the mundane are funny and surprising. |
  It
causes the audience to look at things in a fresh way and wonder how
well we would survive being transplanted into a strange and bizarre
situation. |
  Great
themes of courage and honor are brought out in the story. |
 The
fast-talking, out for themselves modern person pales considerably
next to the French nobleman who lives by a code of honor. |
  We
also see strong themes of freedom and respect. |
 The
squire shows us that the job does not make the man, the heart does.
The knight clearly shows that love does not abuse or use the person
they say they love. This film shows that a slayer of dragons with
a heart that loves can succeed in any age. |
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