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My Best Friend (2006 film)
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Wikipedia article
'My Best Friend ' '(Mon meilleur ami)' is a French film starring Daniel Auteuil, Dany Boon, and Julie Gayet.
Plot
Franois (Auteuil) is a middle-aged, Parisian art dealer who thinks he has everything. After telling a story at dinner about a funeral he attended where only a handful of people turned up, his colleagues suggest that no-one would go to his funeral. He may be materially rich, but he has no friends. Everyone at the dinner table starts to antagonise him about having no friends but Franois says that he does have friends (in reality, he only has clients). His business partner Catherine (Gayet) challenges him to a bet: Franois must introduce his best friend within ten days, or lose a valuable object, his antique Greek vase (worth 200,000).
The challenge is accepted. Franois has ten days to find a friend. As Franois travels through Paris in a taxi, revisiting old acquaintances who all reject him, he meets a trivia-loving taxi driver, Bruno (Boon). As the two spend an increasing amount of time together, they gradually start to form a friendship. Franois meets Bruno's parents and buys a worthless table from them for 10,000 euros to be a better friend. However, Franois's desire to win the bet threatens to destroy the best friendship he has ever had. He tricks Bruno into attempting to steal his vase so Franois can get his insurance money, but it was all a plot to show how much of a friend Bruno was. Bruno becomes furious and smashes the vase, ending his friendship. To make it up, Franois gets Bruno on 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' by giving away his vase. This is a success, and brings the two together, as friends.
Cast
* Daniel Auteuil : Franois Coste
* Dany Boon : Bruno Bouley
* Julie Gayet : Catherine
* Elizabeth Bourgine : Julia
* Julie Durand : Louise
* Henri Garcin : Delamotte
* Jacques Spiesser : Letellier
* Audrey Marnay : Marianne
* Jacques Mathou : Bruno's father
* Marie Pillet : Bruno's mother
* Philippe du Janerand : Luc Lebinet
* Fabienne Chaudat : pouse Lebinet
* Andre Damant : Train lady
* Anne Le Ny : Casting woman
American remake
In 2008, producer Brian Grazer hired Wes Anderson to write the script for an English-language remake of 'My Best Friend';[https://www.imdb.com/news/ni0564008/ Wes Anderson finds 'My Best Friend'] Anderson completed a draft for the script, with the film tentatively called 'The Rosenthaler Suite', in 2009.
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