A Perfect Plan

A Perfect Plan (French: Un plan parfait) is a 2012 French action adventure comedy film directed by Pascal Chaumeil and starring Diane Kruger, Dany Boon, and Alice Pol.[3] Written by Laurent Zeitoun and Yoann Gromb, and based on a story by Philippe Mechelen, the film is about a successful woman in love who tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the altar with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.

A Perfect Plan
Theatrical release poster
Directed byPascal Chaumeil
Produced by
  • Nicolas Duval-Adassovsky
  • Laurent Zeitoun
  • Yann Zenou
Screenplay by
  • Laurent Zeitoun
  • Yoann Gromb
Story byPhilippe Mechelen
Starring
Music byKlaus Badelt
CinematographyGlynn Speeckaert
Edited byDorian Rigal-Ansous
Production
company
Quad Productions
Distributed byUniversal Pictures International (UPI)
Release date
  • 31 October 2012 (2012-10-31) (France)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Budget$26.3 million[1]
Box office$16 million[2]

Plot

The story is said by Isabelle's sister to her boss on christmas eve. Her boss had recently been single, she was weepy and talkative. Thats when they decide to tell Isabelle's story. Their family believed that the first marriages always fail. Isabelle is prepared to marry Pierre, the man she has loved for the past ten years. First she has to overcome a curse that her female family members have been battling for years—that all their first marriages end in divorce. Isabelle comes up with the perfect plan. She will marry a stranger and get a quick divorce to lavoid the curse and be happily married forever the second time. She flies to Copenhagen ,but the guy who was supposed to be there bailed on her so she finds the perfect pigeon in Jean Yves, an editor for the Guide du Routard, on the flight and follows him to Kenya and through many course of events they get married in a traditional Masai wedding of the locals in Kenya, but her plans are complicated when he believes that she is in love with him. She leaves him without an address or phone number and goes back, but he tracks her down. Isabelle warns him not to follow her and makes him leave. When Isabelle's arranged marriage goes awry, knowing that Jean's brother made their wedding registered and that she is already a Mrs, she tracks down the pigeon in hopes she can somehow divorce him without too much trouble. When he travels to Russia, she follows him in the hope that he will sign her divorce papers. She torments him, to make him believe that , she is tough to live with to the point were he goes bald. But later on ,he hears her talking to her sister in the phone which was recorded by his recorder and gives her the signed divorce papers. She explain s her need to marry due to the belief in her family and they spend the next 24 hours hanging out.As a child her demised father had promised her to take her to the moon, Jean fulfils this by taking her to an aircraft that flies and eliminate the gravity, so that they could float. She enjoys the day with him and leaves.She soon realise she miss Jean. She had always lived her life with her partner according to his plans and ideas. She breaks off the marriage with him and goes to find Jean. She finds him and confess that she loves him and they lived happily ever after. The story makes the boss better. Pierre comes in for dinner and the two click off.

Cast

Production

A Perfect Plan was filmed on location in Moscow, Russia and Antwerp, Flanders, Belgium.[4]

Reception

Critical response

Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 33%, based on 18 reviews, with an average score of 5/10.[5]

In his review in The Hollywood Reporter, Jordon Mintzer wrote that the film "works best as a portrait of two opposites who come together out of empathy, rather than out of love."[6] In his review in The Montreal Gazette, T'Cha Dunlevy felt that the film "may have worked on paper, but the execution leaves much to be desired".[7]

Box office

Upon its theatrical release, A Perfect Plan earned $16 million worldwide.[2]

References
  1. "Un Plan Parfait". JP's Box-Office.
  2. "Un Plan Parfait". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  3. "Un Plan Parfait". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  4. "Locations for Un plan parfait". Internet Movie Database. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  5. "A Perfect Plan (Un plan parfait) (2012)". Rotten Tomatoes.
  6. Mintzer, Jordan (2 November 2012). "Fly Me to the Moon (Un plan parfait): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
  7. Dunlevy, T'cha. "Review: Un plan parfait". The Montreal Gazette. Retrieved 13 June 2013.
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