How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby

Name: How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Director: Michel Audiard
Released: 1974
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 5.7
Cast: Jean Carmet, Stéphane Audran, Jane Birkin, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort

1974 · 90 MIN · IMDB 5.7 · 426 VOTES · DIR. Michel Audiard

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Overview

A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with the less exciting guys on Earth.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,104 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:12 Vulcani The Vermouth of Champions

00:04:01 Why don't we change the subject?

00:07:46 You're involved in a profitable company.

00:10:25 I can see her flowery eyes from here... And yet.

00:14:26 You waited for me until midnight?

00:17:05 - What about your wife? - My wife?

00:20:08 At best, Gégé becomes a widower and I get to marry him.

00:23:29 Your steering bar is intact.

00:28:35 - She's not easy-going! - They call her Miss Crabby.

00:31:48 meaning in my life.

00:34:51 O angel of softness!

00:37:54 Look at what fell from heaven!

00:40:57 Fine, they're classy. So what?

00:44:35 Maybe she's not such a masochist.

00:48:29 You shriek with laughter when my hand teases the well

00:51:27 Did you hear?

00:54:31 and your temperature rose to 39.5 for your split pea soup.

00:56:54 I see you on the road, going from village to village...

00:59:04 Yes!

01:03:44 Remember last time?

01:07:32 I get by.

01:15:12 Ginette. Hurry. The boss is asking for you immediately.

01:20:05 An 800-room hotel.

01:24:34 Subtitling: EVA France

Cast & Characters

Jean Carmet Antoine Robineau Stéphane Audran Cécile Malempin Jane Birkin Jane Jean-Pierre Marielle Gérard Malempin Jean Rochefort Foisnard Evelyne Buyle Marie-Josée Mulot Féodor Atkine Le mime du cabaret Laurence Badie Une employée de l'hôtel Paul Bisciglia Le chasseur PLM Robert Dalban Léonce, le patron du bistrot Jacqueline Doyen Mme Léonce Jean-Claude Dreyfus Le transformiste du cabaret Bernard Dumaine Le réceptionniste PLM

Anne Fleurange Une employée PLM

Sébastien Floche Marcel Jacqueline Fontaine La femme de Marcel Ginette Garcin L'infirmière chef Jeanne Herviale Maman Robineau Daniel Prévost Le tailleur du cabaret

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,104

Dialogue density12.3 lines / min

First line00:00:12

Final line01:24:34

Production Record

DirectorMichel Audiard

LanguageFrench

IMDb votes426

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