Francis Veber

Tim is a guy on the verge of having it all. The only thing standing between him and total career success is finding the perfect guest to bring to his boss' annual Dinner for Extraordinary People, an event where the winner of the evening brings the most eccentric character as his guest. Enter Barry, a guy with a passion for dressing mice up in tiny outfits to recreate great works of art. When the duo shows up to dine, the lunacy kicks into high gear....

Gleason is U.S. Bates, a megalomaniac millionaire who owns most of south central Louisiana. Pryor is Jack Brown, a former journalist who has worked his way down the vocational ladder to the position of janitor in Bates' department store. Bates' son, Eric, selects an elaborate toy--Jack Brown--and the relationship teaches Eric more about life than fun and games.

Pierre Levasseur is an important CEO who is photographed with his lover, Elena, a world-famous model. In an attempt to salvage his marriage, he tries to convince his wife that Elena is not his lover, but that of François Pignon, the porter who was passing by and ended up on the photograph. To make his story believable, Levasseur convinces Pignon and Elena to move in together and to pretend to be a couple. Things get more complicated when this creates...

When the dangerously clumsy daughter of a wealthy industrialist disappears from a Mexican resort, an equally clumsy young man is hired to help a top private eye to find her.

"When his wife Louise leaves him for a shrink, François Pignon checks into a Nice hotel with the direst of plans. Unbeknownst to him, the adjoining room is occupied by Ralf, a hitman who is staking out a key witness in a major corruption trial in the law courts opposite the hotel. When the inept and suicidal Pignon stumbles into Ralf's perfectly laid plans, the perfect killer meets the perfect pest and riotous complications ensue as Pignon's fondness...

Sequel to Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire, a comedy of mistaken identity in which a professional violinist's life is changed when he is mistaken for a secret agent. In this sequel, the musician travels to Rio de Janeiro where he manages to foil an attempt to murder him and he evens the score with a gang of killers--all by accident.

Stupid is as stupid does in this hilarious comedy by Francis Veber. Starring two of France's big names, Gerard Depardieu and Jean Reno, Veber's pits them against each other; one as the idiot, one who needs the idiot. The French police capture the idiot Depardieu and use him in an attempt to coerce Reno's character to confess the location of a large booty he has recently stolen. In a hair-brained escape, the two leave the confines of jail and begin...

Albin, fearing he is losing his attractiveness to Renato, becomes involved with a spy and is soon the unwitting courier of precious microfilm.

A French tycoon sends his accident-prone accountant (Pierre Richard) and a private eye (Gérard Depardieu) to Mexico to find his missing daughter.

To impress an older boy, a 14-year-old girl spins a hilarious tale about her dad that sets into motion a comedy of errors and confusion.