Drôle d'embrouille

Titre original : Foul Play

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6,8/10

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Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn in Drôle d'embrouille (1978)

A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.

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Bumbling Detective Farce Parody Comedy Mystery Thriller

Un bibliothécaire timide de San Francisco et un flic maladroit tombent amoureux alors qu'ils résolvent un crime impliquant des albinos, des nains et l'Église catholique.Un bibliothécaire timide de San Francisco et un flic maladroit tombent amoureux alors qu'ils résolvent un crime impliquant des albinos, des nains et l'Église catholique.Un bibliothécaire timide de San Francisco et un flic maladroit tombent amoureux alors qu'ils résolvent un crime impliquant des albinos, des nains et l'Église catholique.

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6,8/10

18 k

MA NOTE

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Nommé pour 1 Oscar
- 9 nominations au total

Anecdotes
The film is an homage to the suspense movies of Sir Alfred Hitchcock. The picture was released seven months after Mel Brooks' Hitchcock spoof Le Grand Frisson (1977). Writer and director Colin Higgins previously had written Transamerica Express (1976), which was also a Hitchcock-like spoof thriller, and starred Brooks collaborators Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.

Gaffes
Dudley Moore's conducting isn't always consistent with the music. This may not be a goof. A real orchestra conductor is always half a beat ahead of the music. It would be incorrect for him to be completely in sync with the music.

Citations
[Ethel and Elsie are playing Scrabble. Ethel has just put down the letters "-ucker", to which Elsie has added "muther-"]
Ethel: Wait, Elsie. I think you're wrong. I think you spell that word with a hyphen.

Crédits fous
Esme the snake is played by Shirley Python.

Connexions
Featured in L'univers du rire (1982)

Bandes originales
Copacabana (At the Copa)
Written by Jack Feldman, Bruce Sussman, and Barry Manilow
Sung by Barry Manilow
Courtesy of Arista Records

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Sweet and Kooky

After reading the Maltin summary, I was a little afraid to rent this movie. Tasteless? I'd loved watching it as a kid on TV (I think I saw it about six times). But a lot of comedies don't make it past their decade.

Foul Play does better than most. It's the characters that make it. Imagine a feminist librarian warning Goldie Hawn about men by telling her "Really, honey, you gotta drag yourself into the seventies!"

Goldie Hawn plays her role sweetly.

The Dudley Moore slapstick didn't delight me as much as when I was a kid (it's a little broad).

The writer and director, Colin Higgins, is known for Harold and Maude. This film doesn't measure up to that one, but it still has a lot of the same touches. In particular, it's the human side of the humor. I laughed at the characters AND liked them.

Once the film leaves the characters for the action, it's not as much fun. The carchase ending drags on a bit too long.

All in all, a sweet movie. Great fun if you'd like to "drag yourself into the seventies."