A woman flying to France to confront her straying fiance gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling.A woman flying to France to confront her straying fiance gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling.A woman flying to France to confront her straying fiance gets into trouble when the charming crook seated next to her uses her for smuggling.
- Awards
- 2 nominations
Suzan Anbeh
- Juliette
- (as Susan Anbeh)
Élisabeth Commelin
- Claire
- (as Elizabeth Commelin)
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- Writer
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaKevin Kline had a professor to coach him with the French to speak it as a Frenchman. He studied French during his Jr. High/High school years and a year in college. He didn't learn to speak it until he went to Alliance Française in New York.
- GoofsTrains from Paris to Cannes do not go past the Eiffel Tower.
- Crazy creditsNear the beginning of the credits, we hear the voices of Kate and Luc. They talk, and then he sings the song "La Mer."
- SoundtracksLes Yeux de ton Père
Performed by Les Négresses Vertes
Written by Mathieu Crespin, Jean-Marie Paulus, Noel Rota, Stefane Mellino and Mathieu Paulus
Courtesy of Sire Records by arrangement with Warner Special
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Featured review
Don't Ever Say
Don't ever say all writers are hacks. The writer of French Kiss, sitting next to Kline on the plane, has done a job from a perspective most people will not catch, and you have to give him credit for doing it. I am fairly sure both Ryan, Kline, Reno and the rest were aware of what was going on, but I am equally sure this flew totally over the heads of 99% of the US audiences. For this movie, amongst other things, is a sometimes not so subtle and other times very subtle cut-up on US tourists in Europe.
There are so many scenes which have this double entendre - if you get them it's hilarious and heart-warming, if you don't get them, then explaining them will help nothing and serve only to enervate the narrator.
And the puns - I've witnessed people seeing this movie over and over and over and not getting them. After half a dozen viewings they suddenly go 'ah' and get it. This is good screen writing.
Kline's Parisian sounds spot on. Suspicion is he was coached - and excellently - in the unique 'gutter' accent found in the city of light.
This film has everything. It's not your classical 'meets cute' but - where does one begin? Can one ever end?
This mini-review has gone on for several hundred words already and the iteration has not started.
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There are so many scenes which have this double entendre - if you get them it's hilarious and heart-warming, if you don't get them, then explaining them will help nothing and serve only to enervate the narrator.
And the puns - I've witnessed people seeing this movie over and over and over and not getting them. After half a dozen viewings they suddenly go 'ah' and get it. This is good screen writing.
Kline's Parisian sounds spot on. Suspicion is he was coached - and excellently - in the unique 'gutter' accent found in the city of light.
This film has everything. It's not your classical 'meets cute' but - where does one begin? Can one ever end?
This mini-review has gone on for several hundred words already and the iteration has not started.
Get it!
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Details
- Release date
- Countries of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Paris Match
- Filming locations
- Chateau Val Joanis, Pertuis, Vaucluse, France(grape harvest scenes)
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $40,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $38,896,854
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,018,022
- May 7, 1995
- Gross worldwide
- $101,982,854
- Runtime1 hour 51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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