Half a Chance
Synopsis
Unaware of her father's identity, car thief Alice Tomaso (Vanessa Paradis) is released from prison one month after her mother's death. She plays an audiocassette in which her mother tells her that 20 years earlier she loved two men and thus never knew which was Alice's father. Alice steals a sports car and drives toward the south of France to seek out both possible papas, now semi-retired businessmen. Auto dealer Leo Brassac (Belmondo) and successful Julien Vignal (Delon), who flies his own helicopter, dislike each other, but they team up after Alice steals a car with $50 million of Russian Mafia money in the trunk. The Russian syndicate wants Alice to turn over the money, but she can't; it was taken by undercover cop Carella (Eric Defosse), tracking each illegal Russkie move. Fortunately, former Foreign Legionnaire Leo and jewel-thief Julien have both the weapon power and smarts to help Alice thwart all mob machinations.
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Director (1)
Actors (19)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Films Christian Fechner
- Co-production : TF1 Films Production
- Associate producer : Union Générale Cinématographique (UGC)
- Film exports/foreign sales : Tamasa Distribution
- French distribution : Fox France
Full credits (18)
- Executive Producer : Christian Fechner
- Adaptation : Serge Frydman, Patrice Leconte, Patrick Dewolf
- Sound recordists : Paul Lainé, Joël Rangon
- Original idea : Bruno Tardon
- Line Producer : Hervé Truffaut
- Screenwriters : Patrice Leconte, Patrick Dewolf
- Directors of Photography : Steven Poster, Jean-Claude Thibaut
- Assistant Operators : Florent Bazin, Valerio Villalba
- Camera Operator : Patrice Leconte
- Production Manager : Philippe Schwartz
- Press Attaché (film) : Karine Ellena
- Editor : Joëlle Hache
- Production Designer : Ivan Maussion
- Music Composer : Alexandre Desplat
- Costume designer : Annie Périer
- Sound Mixer : Dominique Hennequin
- Still Photographer : Patrick Camboulive
- Location Manager : Daniel Baschieri
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Comedy, Crime/thriller
- Production language : French
- Production country : France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : 100% French (France)
- Production year : 1998
- French release : 25/03/1998
- Runtime : 1 h 49 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 92.070
- Visa issue date : 11/02/1998
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Color
- Aspect ratio : CinemaScope
- Audio format : Dolby DTS
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"I wanted to make a film that would be pure entertainment. Really, deliberately! A mainstream, popular film. A show! Entertainment movies are there to be enjoyed at face value, for sheer fun. I wanted the actors to really have fun with their performances, even if the filming was sometimes difficult and complicated. I wanted the movie to be like one huge electric train set. Belmondo, Delon and Vanessa threw themselves into the filming like kids in a giant playground." (Patrice Leconte)
