La Cité de la peur

La Cité de la peur (transl. "The City of Fear"), also known as Le film de Les Nuls ("The Les Nuls Movie"), is a 1994 French comedy film written by and starring Chantal Lauby, Alain Chabat and Dominique Farrugia of the comedy group Les Nuls, and directed by Alain Berbérian in 1994.

La Cité de la Peur
Theatrical poster
Directed byAlain Berbérian
Written byAlain Chabat
Dominique Farrugia
Chantal Lauby
Produced byCharles Gassot
StarringChantal Lauby
Alain Chabat
Dominique Farrugia
Gérard Darmon
CinematographyLaurent Dailland
Edited byVéronique Parnet
Music byPhilippe Chany
Production
companies
M6 Films
Telema
Le Studio Canal+
France 3 Cinéma
Distributed byAMLF
Release date
  • 9 March 1994 (1994-03-09) (France)
Running time
93 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguagesFrench
English
Budget$7.5 million
Box office$13.2 million

The movie parodies big budget American films (Basic Instinct, Pretty Woman and The Terminator, among others, are directly spoofed) and relies heavily on puns and word play, which makes it somewhat inaccessible for non native French speakers.

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