''A Perfect Plan'' (french: Un plan parfait) is a 2012 French action adventure comedy film directed by

Pascal Chaumeil Pascal Chaumeil (9 February 1961 – 27 August 2015) was a French director and screenwriter. He started out as an assistant director in the 1980s, working with directors such as Pierre Tchernia and Luc Besson. He was nominated for two César ...

and starring Diane Kruger, Dany Boon, and

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. It is released as ''Fly Me to the Moon'' in

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and

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. Written by Laurent Zeitoun and Yoann Gromb, and based on a story by Philippe Mechelen, the film is about a woman in love who tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending badly by dashing to the altar with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.

Plot

Isabelle is prepared to marry Pierre, the man she has loved for the past ten years, but first must overcome a curse that afflicts the female members of her family: all their first marriages are unhappy. She comes up with the perfect plan: marry a stranger, get a quick divorce to avoid the curse, and be happily married forever the second time. She flies to Copenhagen and finds the perfect pigeon in Jean-Yves, an editor for the ''Guide du Routard'', but her plans are complicated when he believes that she is in love with him. When an arranged marriage falls through, she tracks down Jean-Yves again in hopes she can somehow marry him and divorce him without too much trouble. She ends up following him with divorce papers, which he eventually signs after hearing her talking to her sister on the phone. She then explains the family curse and they spend the next day hanging out. After leaving, she realises she loves him, breaks off her engagement, and she and Jean-Yves live happily ever after.

Cast

* Diane Kruger as Isabelle * Dany Boon as Jean-Yves *

as Corinne *

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as Pierre * Jonathan Cohen as Patrick * Bernadette Le Saché as Solange *

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as Valérie * Malonn Lévana as Louise * Olivier Claverie as Lawyer Maillard *

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as Romain

Production

''A Perfect Plan'' was filmed on location in

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, Russia and

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, Flanders, Belgium.

Reception

Critical response

Review aggregation website

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reported an approval rating of 33%, based on 18 reviews, with an average score of 5/10. In his review in ''

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'', Jordon Mintzer wrote that the film "works best as a portrait of two opposites who come together out of empathy, rather than out of love." In his review in ''

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'', T'Cha Dunlevy felt that the film "may have worked on paper, but the execution leaves much to be desired".

Box office

Upon its theatrical release, ''A Perfect Plan'' earned $16 million worldwide.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Perfect Plan, A 2012 films 2012 comedy films 2012 romantic comedy films 2010s French-language films French romantic comedy films Films directed by Pascal Chaumeil Films scored by Klaus Badelt 2010s French films