Director : Jeannot Szwarc
Actors : Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel, Clémentine Célarié, Thierry Lhermitte, Annie Cordy, Marc Jonge (de), Urbain Cancelier, Michaël Moyon, Antoine Duléry, Franck de la Personne , Laurent Gendron
Feature film, Fiction
Production language : French
Nationality : 100% French (France)
French release : 1/26/94
Runtime : 1h 35mn
Current status : Released
Associate production company : FILMS DE LA COLLINE (LES)
Co-production : TF1 Films Production, Lumière International
French distribution : Pathé Distribution
Film export/Foreign Sales : FTD International Cinéma (voir France Télévisions Distribution)

Urged on by his wife Corine, who gave up her acting career to foster that of her husband, Gérard Bréha, a journalist from Brittany Television, has just been recruited by the top commercial channel T.V. 8 to present its late evening news. While Corine cheerfully copes with the chores of running a family at the house of her mother Jany, a fun-loving sixty-year-old with a bundle of admirers, Gérard gets swept up in the spiral of events at T.V. 8. Backed up by Marie-Ange de la Baume, his news department chief and soon his lover, Gérard gets his lucky break when the star prime-time news presenter, Philippe Vernon, is hurt in an accident. From the moment Gérard hits the screen, the ratings skyrocket. Marie-Ange rewards him with the hot job of investigating the"Yam", a shadowy gang which is making raids on banks and gun shops...