Family Resemblances

1996

1h 50m

7.3(293 votes)

Comedy

Overview

An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.

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14 members

Acting

Jean-Pierre Bacri

Henri Ménard

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Jean-Pierre Darroussin

Denis

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Catherine Frot

Yolande Ménard

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Agnès Jaoui

Betty Ménard

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Claire Maurier

The mother

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Wladimir Yordanoff

Philippe Ménard

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Alain Guillo

TV presenter

Directing

Cédric Klapisch

Father in 1967

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Antoine Chappey

Neighbor of the estate

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Sophie Simon

Mother in 1967

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Aurélie Remacle

Betty in 1967

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Romain Legrand

Kevin

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Zinedine Soualem

Consumer

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Denis Falgoux

Consumer

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