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I Want to Go Home

  • 19891989
  • 1h 40m
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
750
YOUR RATING
I Want to Go Home (1989)
Comedy
A grumpy American is suffering during his visit to Europe.A grumpy American is suffering during his visit to Europe.A grumpy American is suffering during his visit to Europe.
IMDb RATING
5.4/10
750
YOUR RATING
    • Alain Resnais
    • Jules Feiffer
  • Stars
    • Laura Benson
    • Adolph Green
    • Linda Lavin
    • Alain Resnais
    • Jules Feiffer
  • Stars
    • Laura Benson
    • Adolph Green
    • Linda Lavin
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    • 3User reviews
    • 11Critic reviews
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    Laura Benson in I Want to Go Home (1989)
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    Gérard Depardieu and Adolph Green in I Want to Go Home (1989)
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    Laura Benson
    Laura Benson
    • Elsie Wellman
    Adolph Green
    Adolph Green
    • Joey Wellman
    Linda Lavin
    Linda Lavin
    • Lena Apthrop
    Gérard Depardieu
    Gérard Depardieu
    • Christian Gauthier
    Geraldine Chaplin
    Geraldine Chaplin
    • Terry Amstrong
    François-Eric Gendron
    François-Eric Gendron
    • Lionel Cohn-Martin
    Georges Fricker
    • Roxy Darcel, le compagnon de Terry
    John Ashton
    John Ashton
    • Harry Dempsey
    Caroline Silhol
    • Dora Dempsey
    • (as Caroline Sihol)
    Micheline Presle
    Micheline Presle
    • Isabelle Gauthier
    Patrick Bonnel
    • Le boucher
    Charlotte Bonnet
    • La femme chauffeur de taxi
    Isabelle Wolfe
    • Laureline
    • (as Isabelle Canet-Wolfe)
    Jean-Marc Cozic
    • Tintin
    Tony Dias
    • Valentina
    Guillaume Farny
    • Bateman
    Alain Fromager
    • L'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier
    Peter Hudson
    Peter Hudson
    • Le Spectre
      • Alain Resnais
      • Jules Feiffer
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    • Trivia
      Writer Jules Feiffer claimed that the plot of the film originated with the amused bafflement he, as an American, felt about the intense admiration shown by French intellectuals towards the films of Jerry Lewis.
    • Quotes

      Lena Apthrop: What I admire most about you, Lionel, is that you don't even have to listen to disagree.

    • Soundtracks
      I Love Paris
      Music by Cole Porter

      Lyrics by Cole Porter

    User reviews3

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    3/10
    Terribly obnoxious and unfunny
    One of Alain Resnais' more mainstream films, including American actors and characters in a mostly English language script. It is deservedly forgotten. Quite frankly, it's garbage. Adolph Green (of the musical team Comden and Green, who worked on Singin' in the Rain and The Bandwagon) plays a curmudgeonly Cleveland comic strip writer who is invited to Paris for a gallery show on American comics. He hopes to finally see his daughter (Laura Benson), who hasn't spoken to him in the two years she's been going to college there. Benson finds her father lowbrow, though, and ditches him, hoping she can finally catch up to her professor (Gerard Depardieu). Unbeknownst to her, Depardieu is secretly a huge fan of American comic strips, and ends up inviting Green and his girlfriend (Linda Lavin) to stay with him at his mother's country estate. Benson, when she finds out, decides to follow them. The problems with this movie are many, but the worst one is that Green is an enormous, enormous jerk. He spends the whole film yelling at everybody, frequently complaining at as loud a volume possible about how horrible the French are. You know there's a problem when you want to bludgeon the main character of a movie to death within ten seconds of his first appearance. Second, Benson is a complete bitch. I think part of it is that the actress (whom I think is French, since she only seems to have appeared in other French films) is awful. She comes off as totally emotionless and unnecessarily mean (though I can understand why she wouldn't want to be anywhere near her father, she treats Lavin, who always comes off as a nice person, like crap for no reason). Third, Green's cartoon cats often pop up in animated thought bubbles to tease both Green and Benson. This is especially unfunny and hugely obnoxious, particularly since Green voices the cats with his awful, nasal voice. The film does get a little better as it goes on. The cartoons fade away and Green, who starts to appreciate France after he meets Depardieu, calms the Hell down. But it's still utterly unfunny and I'd like to forget it was ever made.
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    • Mar 16, 2014

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    • Release date
      • September 27, 1989 (France)
      • France
      • French
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Roissy, Val-d'Oise, France
    • Production companies
      • Films A2
      • Investimage
      • La Sept Cinéma
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    • 1 hour 40 minutes
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      • Stereo

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