Santa Claus Is a Stinker

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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Le père Noël est une ordure.jpg
Directed by Jean-Marie Poiré
Produced by Yves Rousset-Rouard
Starring Anémone
Josiane Balasko
Marie-Anne Chazel
Christian Clavier
Gérard Jugnot
Thierry Lhermitte
Bruno Moynot
Music by Vladimir Cosma
Release dates
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  • 25 August 1982 (1982-08-25)
Running time
 87 minutes
Country France
Language French
Box office $10.3 million[1]

Santa Claus Is a Stinker or Le père Noël est une ordure is a French comedy play created in 1979 by the troupe Le Splendid and turned into a film directed by Jean-Marie Poiré in 1982.[2]

Plot

Pierre, a stuffy and self-righteous volunteer at a telephone helpline for depressed people, and his well-meaning but naïve co-worker Thérèse, are stuck with the Christmas Eve shift in the Paris office, much to their displeasure.

The building's lift is malfunctioning, and they receive visits from unwanted callers: Katia, a depressed transvestite who tries to hit on Pierre; M. Preskovitch who lives in the same building and always turns up unexpectedly to offer them various unappetizing pastries; and Josette, a heavily pregnant woman on the run from her violent fiancé Félix. Félix is working as a Santa Claus during the season and turns up on her trail in costume, brandishing a gun. Félix and Josette, a caricature trailer trash couple, end up struggling over the gun and accidentally shoot the lift repairman dead, whom they then butcher and feed to zoo animals.

The origin of the doubitchous

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Le Splendid in 1979 is at the origin of the movie of 1982.
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Jean-Marie Poiré directed the production of the movie in 1982.

The pastries used in the film are a creation of Josiane Balasko who had travelled to Osijek, in Croatia, the birthplace of her father. During her stay the actress discovered funny local specialties which gave her the inspiration of the doubitchous of the movie.[3][4]

The painting used in the film

The painting depicting Thérèse with a pig used in the film is different from the one used for theatre version Santa Claus Is a Stinker (theater) (fr). Two different artists have painted the two pieces: Bernard de Desnoyers and Christoff Debusschere (fr).[5][6]

Today the painting that was used to shoot the film is in the hands of its author, Bernard de Desnoyers, who has kept the work.[7][8]

English (US) remake of the film

In 1994 the basic plot was used by writer/director Nora Ephron to develop the US film Mixed Nuts.[9]

Cast

References

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  5. ↑ Interview du peintre E. Bardolle, élève de l'école d'Etampes.
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  7. ↑ http://lescopainsd-abord.over-blog.com/article-the-father-christmas-is-a-junk-pictures-of-wings-and-secrets-of-film-by-nath-didile-121008354.html[dead link]
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External links

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