This is a classic French comedy from the 90s, and while it has certainly aged, it has also retained a pretty strong capacity to make you laugh, and a soupçon of emotion. It centers on the character of Francis, owner of a small provincial toilet utensil factory, whose wife and daughter live the high life while debts and the (French) IRS threaten to take his business away. When his face shows up on one of those "lost relatives" TV shows, put up there by a putative other wife and two adult daughters, he decides to let it all go and move towards this new life. But of course, he is not who he pretends to be, and will have to figure things out. Some aspects of the movie would for sure not be considered politically correct in this day and age, especially the boorish character played by Eddy Mitchell. It's certainly not a movie that questions conservative gender roles as both wives (in different ways) are submissive (though one is self-sufficient). There are flashes of modernity here and there, but by and large the movie is a sign of its times.
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