You Don't Choose Your Family
2011 · 103 MIN · IMDB 5.6 · 1,874 VOTES · DIR. Christian Clavier
Overview
César Borgnoli, an unsuccessful car salesman from Italy, lives well beyond his means. In order to get out of his financial disaster, he agrees to a deal: he pretends to be the husband of his sister's girlfriend Kim so she can legally adopt a little girl from Thailand. Caesar believes this to be a great idea and is looking forward to his trip to Thailand. After all, he is going to be able to mix business with pleasure--so he thinks. He didn't expect the local police, the Chinese Triads and the director of the orphanage to chip in, who want to make sure that little Mai is going to end up in a nice family.
Dialogue Timeline — 908 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:01:03 Toyota, Audi, Mercedes...
00:03:40 Reassure Mr. Burton about my bank guarantees.
00:05:24 It's Video Gag!
00:07:09 What do you mean, "more"?
00:09:09 Anyway, she's awfully cute. She's got something.
00:11:20 No one's, Mama! General de Gaulle's!
00:13:19 It's a four, like the number.
00:16:06 I have to fetch them at the airport.
00:18:15 She seems nice, funny and all that.
00:21:04 What melons?
00:23:14 - Where are we? - In the air.
00:26:43 With who?
00:28:58 I'm sure you'll like it.
00:31:18 That's Bangkok.
00:33:27 Not at all! It's just because...
00:35:10 What's going on?
00:37:19 Next to the other one, it sucks.
00:39:49 Big Oedipus complex.
00:42:03 the rubbery texture of the skin
00:44:20 The beauty from Cadiz offers love without disguise
00:46:29 Shoot, doc.
00:49:31 Well...
00:52:20 Lizards ate my clothes, remember?
50:00:00 will you go with Kim?
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed908
Dialogue density8.8 lines / min
First line00:01:03
Final line50:00:00
Production Record
DirectorChristian Clavier
LanguageFrench
Revenue$2,419,473
IMDb votes1,874