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The Key Is in the Door(1978)
Status: Released
Date: 1978-12-13
47%
13 Votes
Time: 1h 38m
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Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.
Languages: French.
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France
Movie: The Key Is in the Door
Top 6 Billed Cast
Annie Girardot
Marie Arnault
Patrick Dewaere
Philippe
Éléonore Klarwein
Charlotte
Stéphane Jobert
Jérôme
Barbara Steele
Cathy
Philippe Taccini
Laurent
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Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.
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1978-12-13
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