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Mon Oncle (1958)

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Comedy
Release Date:November 3, 1958
Running time:114 minutes
Cast:Jacques Tati, Jean-Pierre Zola, Adrienne Servantie, Lucien Frégis, Betty Schneider
Director:Jacques Tati
Producer:Jacques Tati
Writer:Jacques Lagrange, Jean L'Hôte, Jacques Tati
Distributor:Continental Distributing Inc.

Description: Unemployed Monsieur Hulot spends his days waiting to pick up his adoring nephew from school and escort him to his ultra modern home. Concerned for Hulot's future, his sister tries to pair him with her neighbor while his brother-in-law tries to secure a job for him in his hose factory. Chaos ensues. "Mon Oncle" is a biting commentary on mechanized living and bourgeois pretension, which never loses its capacity to bemuse and delight.

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