I Want to Go Home

The story

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.

Cast

L Laura BensonElsie Wellman A Adolph GreenJoey Wellman L Linda LavinLena Apthrop G Gérard DepardieuChristian Gauthier G Geraldine ChaplinTerry Amstrong F François-Eric GendronLionel Cohn-Martin G Georges FrickerRoxy Darcel J John AshtonHarry Dempsey C Caroline SilholDora Dempsey M Micheline PresleIsabelle Gauthier P Patrick BonnelLe boucher C Charlotte BonnetLa femme chauffeur de taxi

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I Isabelle WolfeLaureline J Jean-Marc CozicTintin T Tony DiasValentina G Guillaume FarnyBateman A Alain FromagerL'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier P Peter HudsonLe Spectre R Raphaëline GoupilleauL'étudiante dans le bureau de Gauthier I Isabelle HabiagueLa jeune femme qui chante L Ludivine SagnierLa petite fille de la place du village J Jacques Le ServotSpirit A Agnès SeelingerLa domestique du manoir G Gisèle SobanElektra A Anne TeyssèdreLa jeune femme dans le bureau de Gauthier I Isabelle TurpaultCatwoman M Michel WeinstadtCorto Maltese A Abbes ZahmaniLe Concombre Masqué L Lucienne HamonMme Roget C Catherine ArditiLa boulangère A Anne RousselLa jeune femme fatiguée J Jean ChampionLe chauffeur de taxi E Emmanuelle ChauletLa secrétaire de Gauthier P Pierre DecazesLe garagiste N Nicolas TrongLe jeune homme dans l'avion F Françoise BertinLa cliente de la marchande de légumes