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Welcome to the Sticks(2008)
Status: Released
Date: 2008-02-20
67%
2529 Votes
Time: 1h 46m
Overview:
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
Budget: $11,000,000.00
Revenue: $245,144,417.00
ProductionCompanies: 
Hirsch
Les Productions du Ch'timi
Movie: Welcome to the Sticks
Top 10 Billed Cast
Kad Merad
Philippe Abrams
Dany Boon
Antoine Bailleul
Zoé Félix
Julie Abrams
Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret
Raphaël Abrams
Anne Marivin
Annabelle Deconninck
Philippe Duquesne
Fabrice Canoli
Guy Lecluyse
Yann Vandernoout
Line Renaud
Mrs. Bailleul
Michel Galabru
Julie's Great Uncle
Stéphane Freiss
Jean
Video Trailer Welcome to the Sticks
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