La Chevre

The French box-office champ in 1981, LA CHEVRE, a lightweight comedy from the predictable Francis Veber, managed to send audiences home laughing in its native country, though it wasn't released in the US until 1985. Veber, cowriter of THE TALL BLOND MAN WITH ONE BLACK SHOE and its sequel, THE RETURN OF THE TALL BLOND MAN WITH ONE BLACK SHOE, continues the exploits of klutzy amateur detective Pierre Richard, who is here paired with logic-obsessed investigator Gerard Depardieu. When accident-prone heiress Corynne Charbit disappears in Rio, her father sends Richard and Depardieu to track her. Richard, who is as clumsy as Charbit, retraces her steps exactly, falling in...