Set in the offices of a suicide hotline, this cheerfully misanthropic farce follows the fates of a half-dozen screwups as they stumble their way through the last hours of Christmas Eve. Based on a hit play, it became a cult film in France and was remade in Hollywood as MIXED NUTS (1994),
a Steve Martin vehicle.
'Twas the night before Christmas... Manning the phones at SOS HELP/FRIENDSHIP are Therese (Anemone) and Pierre (Thierry Lhermitte). When a caller named Katia (Christian Clavier) asks permission to come over, Pierre agrees--not realizing that Katia is a transvestite. Following a fight with her
boyfriend, Felix (Gerard Jugnot), a petty thief temporarily em...
Released:
1982
Rated:
NR
Length:
87 mins