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I Want to Go Home

1989 · 1h 40m · Comedy

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.

Cast

• Laura Benson as Elsie Wellman
• Adolph Green as Joey Wellman
• Linda Lavin as Lena Apthrop
• Gérard Depardieu as Christian Gauthier
• Geraldine Chaplin as Terry Amstrong
• François-Eric Gendron as Lionel Cohn-Martin
• Georges Fricker as Roxy Darcel
• John Ashton as Harry Dempsey
• Caroline Silhol as Dora Dempsey
• Micheline Presle as Isabelle Gauthier
• Patrick Bonnel as Le boucher
• Charlotte Bonnet as La femme chauffeur de taxi

Details

Director

Alain Resnais

Released

September 27, 1989

Runtime

1h 40m

Genres

Comedy

Studio

MK2 Productions, Films A2 and La Sept

Status

Released

TMDB score

4.8 / 10 from 24 votes