Ridicule (1996)

Summary: To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.

Release Date: November 22, 1996

Genres: Comedy, Drama, History

Director: Patrice Leconte

Writers: Rémi Waterhouse

, Michel Fessler

, Eric Vicaut

Runtime: 1 h 42 min

MPAA: R

Production: Epithète Films, Cinéa, France 3 Cinéma, PolyGram Audiovisuel, Société des Producteurs de Cinéma et de Télévision (Procirep), Gras Savoye, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC)

Distributor: Miramax

Country: France

Language: French

Movie budget: $ 50,000,000

Domestic: $ 1,979,768

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

Summary: In 1880s India, two former British soldiers decide to set themselves up as Kings in Kafiristan, a land where no white man has set foot since Alexander the Great.

Release Date: December 19, 1975

Genres: Adventure, History, War

Director: John Huston

Writers: John Huston

, Gladys Hill

, Rudyard Kipling

Runtime: 2 h 09 min

MPAA: PG

Production: Columbia Pictures, Devon/Persky-Bright, Allied Artists Pictures

Distributor: Allied Artists Pictures, CBS, CBS/Fox, Warner Home Video, Allied Artists Home Video, Fox Video, Lorimar Productions, The Criterion Channel, Warner Bros.

Countries: United Kingdom, United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 8,000,000

Ridicule (1996)

The Man Who Would Be King (1975)

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