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Day Off

Day Off

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Status

Released

Release Date

Mar 28, 2001

Runtime

2h 7m

Genres

Drama, Comedy

User Score

53%

Original Title

Mercredi, folle journée !

Production Companies

Euripide Productions, TF1 Films Production

Director

Pascal Thomas

Description

Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.