French Kiss (1995)
Genre Comedy/Romance
Director Lawrence Kasdan
Writer Adam Brooks
Producer Charles Okun
Photographer Owen Roizman
Studio 20th Century Fox
Language English
Country USA
Color Color
MPAA PG-13
Runtime 111 minutes
Rating  6.2/10
Type Movie

 Plot
------------- Plot by IMDB -------------
EnglishKate (Meg Ryan) and Charlie (Timothy Hutton) have a perfect life planned out before them: buying a house, marriage, kids, the whole works. Kate's fear of flying keeps her in Canada while Charlie goes to Paris for a medical convention. While there Charlie is smitten by the lovely Juliette (Susan Anbeh). He calls off the wedding with Kate and she nervously boards a plane to get him back. She ends up sitting next to the petty French thief Luc Teyssier (Kevin Kline). He hides a stolen necklace and smuggled grape vine in her bag to get it through customs. Her bag is stolen, the necklace is lost and Kate and Luc head to Cannes to find the necklace and get Charlie back. Along the way, Kate and Luc begin having feelings for each other which changes the course of their lives.

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------------- Plot by DVD Empire -------------
"Delightful! Ryan and Kline are irresistible." - Rita Kempley, The Washington PostMeg Ryan (Sleepless in Seattle) and Kevin Kline (Dave) star in this bouncy romantic comedy about life, love and larceny.When her fiance is smitten by a beautiful Frenchwoman, Kate (Ryan) flies to Paris determined to win him back. However, nothing prepares her for Luc (Kline), a cunning, sexy Frenchman with a gift for gab and a fondness for thievery. A self-proclaimed expert on affairs of the heart, Luc promises to help Kate win back her man. But one star-crossed misadventure after another sweeps them across France, ultimately changing them in ways they never dreamed possible.Directed by Lawrence Kasdan (The Big Chill, Grand Canyon) French Kiss is "a delightful cinematic bon bon...the stuff of classic moviemaking." - The Hollywood Reporter

------------- Plot by AMG -------------
An American woman discovers that Paris truly is the city of love -- though not in the manner she expected -- in this romantic comedy. Kate (Meg Ryan) is desperately afraid of flying, so when her fiancée Charlie (Timothy Hutton) flies to Paris on business, she must stay behind. Kate has been having second thoughts about her impending marriage, but that changes when Charlie calls her to say that the engagement is off -- he's met a beautiful French woman named Juliette (Susan Anbeh), and he's fallen in love. Determined to win Charlie back, Kate confronts her fears and hops on board the next flight to Paris, where she finds herself seated next to Luc Teyssier (Kevin Kline), a French thief who stashes some valuable jewelry in her baggage hoping to avoid capture. While Luc simply wants to get his jewels back, he pretends to be willing to help Kate find Charlie and win him back in order to keep her luggage out of harm's way, but to his surprise (as well as Kate's), the two become infatuated as they make their way through the City of Lights. Leading lady Meg Ryan also served as co-producer for this film.

 Actors
Meg Ryan ..... Kate
Kevin Kline ..... Luc Teyssier
Timothy Hutton ..... Charlie
Jean Reno ..... Inspector Jean-Paul Cardon
François Cluzet ..... Bob
Susan Anbeh ..... Juliette
Renée Humphrey ..... Lilly
Michael Riley ..... M. Campbell
Laurent Spielvogel ..... Concierge
Victor Garrivier ..... Octave
Elisabeth Commelin ..... Claire (as Elizabeth Commelin)
Julie Leibowitch ..... Olivia
Miquel Brown ..... Sgt. Patton
Louise Deschamps ..... Jean-Paul's Girl
Olivier Curdy ..... Jean-Paul's Boy
Claudio Todeschini ..... Antoine Teyssier
Jerry Harte ..... Herb
Thomasine Heiner ..... Mom
Joanna Pavlis ..... Monotonous Voiced Woman
Florence Soyez ..... Flight Attendant
Barbara Schulz ..... Pouting Girl
Clément Sibony ..... Pouting Boy
Adam Brooks ..... Perfect Passenger
Marianne Anska ..... Cop #1
Philippe Garnier ..... Cop #2 (as Phillippe Garnier)
Frédéric Therisod ..... Cop #3
Patrice Juiff ..... French Customs Official
Jean Corso ..... Hotel George V Desk Clerk
François Xavier Tilmant ..... Hotel Waiter
Williams Diols ..... Beach Waiter
Mike Johns ..... Lucien
Marie-Christine Adam ..... Juliette's Mother (as Marie Christine Adam)
Jean-Paul Jaupart ..... Juliette's Father
Fausto Costantino ..... Beefy Doorman
Jean-Claude Braquet ..... Stolen Moto Owner
Dominique Régnier ..... Attractive Passport Woman
Ghislaine Juillot ..... Jean-Paul Cardon's Wife
Inge Offerman ..... German Family
Nicholas Hawtrey ..... German Family
Wolfgang Pissors ..... German Family
Nikola Obermann ..... German Family
Alain Frérot ..... Old Man
Dorothée Picard ..... Mrs. Cowen
Jean Allain ..... Mr. Cowen
Paul Romanuk ..... Announcer (uncredited)

 Reviews
------------- Review by AMG -------------
The fourth film collaboration of director Lawrence Kasdan and actor Kevin Kline, French Kiss is also their least successful, perhaps in large part because Kasdan himself did not write it. The tug-of-war between the film's light and airy tone and the betrayal-induced desperation of the main characters makes for an unsatisfying misfire of a comedy that's neither light nor dark enough. Meg Ryan plays the same deluded yet intelligent, frazzled klutz she patented in When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle. Abandoning too much self-dignity and practical thinking to be believable, Kate (Ryan) inspires French jewelry thief Luc Teyssier (believably played by Kevin Kline) to ask the question we all want to know, "Why are you wasting your time on this ridiculous man?" The answer comes much too slowly as Kate and Luc spend most of the second act bickering as they travel together through Paris and the pastoral French countryside. The outcome is predictable and the conflict spare: the cop trailing Luc is also an old pal, Kate doesn't seem perturbed by the thief who's stolen her passport, and even philandering Charlie (a bored Timothy Hutton) gets off too easy in the end. Pockets of witty dialogue and energetic performances by Ryan and Kline make for light entertainment, but the movie as a whole is comme ci, comme ca.

Features

Released 2003
Region Region 1
Chapters 22
Screen Ratio Widescreen 2.35:1 Color
Layer Single
Sides Single
Subtitles English
Spanish
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 [CC]
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Surround [CC]
FRENCH: Dolby Digital Surround
Features Original Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Disk No. 1/1
Edition
UPC 024543000044

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