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May Fools

Summary: During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in their family estate.

Genres: Comedy, Romance

Director: Louis Malle

Writers: Louis Malle

, Jean-Claude Carrière

Runtime: 1 h 47 min

MPAA: R

Production: Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF), TF1 Films Production, Ellepi Films

Distributor: Orion Classics, Image Entertainment, Orion Home Video

Countries: France, Italy

Language: French

Domestic: $ 1,576,702

Box office:

Domestic:$1.6MWorldwide:$1.6M

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Content: -3 Excessive sex, violence, immorality, and/or worldview problems. (Sometimes excessive content such as violence is in otherwise redemptive movies.)

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Aug 22nd 2012

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