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I Want to Go Home

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4.9/10 • 21

1989-09-271h 40m

Comedy

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.

Directors
Alain Resnais
Writters
Jules Feiffer
Editors
Jules Feiffer, Albert Jurgenson

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  1. Laura Benson

    Laura Benson

    Elsie Wellman

  2. Adolph Green

    Adolph Green

    Joey Wellman

  3. Linda Lavin

    Linda Lavin

    Lena Apthrop

  4. Gérard Depardieu

    Gérard Depardieu

    Christian Gauthier

  5. Geraldine Chaplin

    Geraldine Chaplin

    Terry Amstrong

  6. François-Eric Gendron

    François-Eric Gendron

    Lionel Cohn-Martin

  7. Georges Fricker

    Georges Fricker

    Roxy Darcel

  8. John Ashton

    John Ashton

    Harry Dempsey

  9. Caroline Silhol

    Caroline Silhol

    Dora Dempsey

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Original Language
French
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