Family Resemblances
Sep 07 1996
•2h 50m
•Comedy
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
Cast
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Jean-Pierre Bacri
Henri Ménard
Jean-Pierre Darroussin
Denis
Catherine Frot
Yolande Ménard
Agnès Jaoui
Betty Ménard
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