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Overview

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7.2/10   2,499 votes
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Director:
Bertrand Blier
Writers:
Bertrand Blier (novel)
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Release Date:
13 May 1974 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Drama more
Plot:
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble... more | add synopsis
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User Comments:
If you fire off enough shots, some of them are bound to hit more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Gérard Depardieu ... Jean-Claude
Patrick Dewaere ... Pierrot
Miou-Miou ... Marie-Ange
Jeanne Moreau ... Jeanne Pirolle
Brigitte Fossey ... Woman in the train
Christian Alers ... Jacqueline's father Henri
Michel Peyrelon ... The Doctor
Gérard Boucaron ... Carnot
Jacques Chailleux ... Jacques Pirolle
Eva Damien ... Doctor's wife
Dominique Davray ... Ursula

Isabelle Huppert ... Jacqueline
Marco Perrin ... Supermarket inspector
Jacques Rispal ... Maton
Claude Vergues ... Merian
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Getting It Up
Going Places (USA)
Making It
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Runtime:
France:150 min (restored: 1999) | Germany:111 min | USA:117 min | West Germany:116 min
Country:
France
Language:
French
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
France:-18 (original rating) | France:U (re-rating) | France:-12 (TV rating) | UK:R (1974) | Finland:K-18 | Sweden:15 | UK:18 | USA:R | West Germany:18 | Norway:(Banned) (1974-2003) (cinema release) | Germany:BPjM Restricted
Filming Locations:
Valence, Drôme, France
Company:
C.A.P.A.C. more

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The original French title is slang for "balls" (the testicular variety). more
Goofs:
Continuity: Marie-Ange is shot in the shins when the boys leave her at the barbers shop, but there is no trace of any injury when they rejoin her (although there is no exact indication of the time past, it does not appear long enough for an injury of that kind to heal completely). more
Movie Connections:
Spoofed in Les bidasses s'en vont en guerre (1974) more

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6 out of 8 people found the following comment useful:-
If you fire off enough shots, some of them are bound to hit, 4 August 1999
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Author: allyjack from toronto

The movie has a distinct (albeit brutish and rough) humanity for all its borderline depravity - the zippy/lyrical score points up the comic side of their misadventures, and even when they're at their most thuggish (like terrorizing the woman on the train), a semi-pitiful vulnerability lurks never far away (Dewaere sucks on her breasts like a baby). Blier cuts away from the scene where Depardieu may be about to rape Dewaere, so we're never sure how explicitly to read the manifestly homoerotic aspect of their relationship - either way, that incident is the start of their relative humanization (so the movie could certainly be read as pro-gay, although it could likely be read as pro-anything you want). The movie has many objectionable scenes and points of sexual politics and is probably best taken as a general cartoon on the foibles of both sexes, making a mockery of the whole notion of sensitivity and honesty, and hitting numerous points of possible profundity on the basis that if you fire off enough shots, some of them are bound to hit.

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