Le Boulet

Le Boulet
Directed by Alain Berbérian
Produced by Thomas Langmann
Jacques-Eric Strauss
Fabienne Tsaï
Jean-Louis Monthieux
Starring Gérard Lanvin
Benoît Poelvoorde
José Garcia
Djimon Hounsou
Rossy de Palma
Music by Robert Basarte
François Forestier
Krishna Levy
Jean-Louis Viale
Cinematography Jean-Pierre Sauvaire
Edited by Philippe Bourgueil
Release dates
April 10, 2002 (2002-04-10TFrance)
Running time
107 min.
Country France
Language French
Budget $24.5 million
Box office $40 million[1]

Le Boulet is a French film directed by Alain Berbérian and Frédéric Forestier, released in 2002.

Plot

Moltès, a killer in prison, plays the lottery every week and sends the tickets with Reggio, a guard, so that the latter's wife, Pauline, can have them validated. One day the ticket is a winner, but Pauline is at a party rally in Africa, carrying the ticket with her. Moltès wanting to recover his due, escapes and forces Reggio (the ball) to accompany him. However, he becomes the target of his nemesis, another gangster nicknamed "The Turk" (whose brother was killed by Moltès), and his bodyguard named Requin, a giant with teeth of steel.

Cast

Production

Shooting took place in Paris and North Africa.

The man who reads a newspaper with Moltès' photo on the back is Jean-Marc Deschamps, the production manager. There are numerous cameo appearances; Nicolas Anelka appears as a football player, Jamel Debbouze as a prison guard in Mali, and musicians Stomy Bugsy (former Ministère AMER) and Marco Prince (singer of the FFF) and comedian Omar Sy (the duo Omar et Fred) as killer brothers. The scriptwriter and producer Thomas Langmann made a small cameo in the role of the Turk's brother.

The Turk's bodyguard (played by Gary Tiplady) is a reference to the notorious hitman known as "Jaws" played by Richard Kiel in the James Bond films The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979).

References

  1. "LE BOULET (2002)". JP' Box-Office. Retrieved 2002-04-10.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 1/28/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.