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French Exit

French Exit

20215.61h 53m

Overview

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

Directed by Azazel Jacobs
Written by Patrick DeWitt
Produced by Olivier Glaas, Trish Dolman, Christine Haebler
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Top Cast

Michelle Pfeiffer

Michelle Pfeiffer

Frances Price

Lucas Hedges

Lucas Hedges

Malcolm Price

Tracy Letts

Tracy Letts

Franklin Price (voice)

Valerie Mahaffey

Valerie Mahaffey

Mme Reynard

Susan Coyne

Susan Coyne

Joan

Imogen Poots

Imogen Poots

Susan

Danielle Macdonald

Danielle Macdonald

Madeleine the Medium

Isaach de Bankolé

Isaach de Bankolé

Julius

Daniel Di Tomasso

Daniel Di Tomasso

Tom

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Eddie Holland

Young Malcolm Price

Themes & Keywords

paris, francebased on novel or bookcatwidowmediumaffectationreincarnationocean crossingsocialitecomplexmother son relationshipintrospectiveirreverentlightheartedbittercomplicatedconceiteddignifiedgentlepessimistic

About French Exit

French Exit is a comedy, drama film released in 2021 exploring themes of paris, france, based on novel or book, cat, widow, medium, affectation. Directed by Azazel Jacobs, it stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts. “My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

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