Loonies at Large
La Cavale des fous
Release: 1993-08-11
·Runtime: 92m
·★ 6.0
Comedy
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
Production Companies
Fidélité Films
France 2 Cinéma
Sofiarp
Cast
Marcel Gassouk
as Le tireur
Édith Scob
as Madame Toussaint
Laurent Gamelon
as Fredo
Ronny Coutteure
as Un routier
Jenny Clève
as La mère supérieure
Yolande Moreau
as Bus driver (uncredited)
Daniel Martin
as Un infirmier
Pierre Richard
as Bertrand Daumale
Hélène Surgère
as Edith Juillet
François Hadji-Lazaro
as Madame Marthe
Jean-Paul Muel
as Le passager cruciverbiste
Jean-François Dérec
as Le pompiste
Jean-Marie Galey
as Jean-Pierre
Marie Réache
as La maîtresse de Jean-Pierre
Michel Piccoli
as Henri Toussaint
Dominique Pinon
as Angel
Florence Pernel
as Fabienne
Marc Betton
as Verebelli
Jacques Denis
as Le contrôleur SNFC
Anne Kreis
as La femme du cruciverbiste
Patrice Alexsandre
as Schramm
Jean-Quentin Châtelain
as L'auto-stoppeur
Jean-Claude Leguay
as Un infirmier
