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• Main Authors: Dany Boon (director, Keith Oatley, Welcome To The Sticks, Directed Dany Boon, Written Dany Boon
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Kad’; North Pole
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.687.9685; http://psqtest.typepad.com/blogPostPDFs/200919181_psq_54-45_JustForALaugh.pdf

Charlot, and Franck Magnier, is said to have been France’s most successful film of all time. It’s about a post office manager, Philippe (Kad Merad), and his grumpy, difficult wife, Julie (Zoé Félix). They live in Provence, but she leans on him to get a transfer to the French Riviera. To help his chances of such a favorable move, it seems Philippe needs to be disabled. By the time an inspector arrives to check his transfer application, Philippe has bought a wheelchair. But his performance as a disabled person is wanting, his ruse is discovered, and, perhaps as a punishment meted out by the Post Office Human Relations Department, he is transferred to Bergues at the opposite end of France, near the English Channel coast. Dwellers in the south think that this is the North Pole, and Julie refuses to accompany him there. On the day before he is due to start in his new position, Philippe sets out in his car, alone and reluctant. When stopped by the police for driving too slowly on the highway, he explains that he has been transferred to the north. “Be brave, ” says the cop, and lets him go without a fine.