The Man on the Train
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| Man on the Train | |
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| Directed by | Patrice Leconte |
| Produced by | Philippe Carcassonne |
| Written by | Claude Klotz |
| Starring | Jean Rochefort, Johnny Hallyday |
| Distributed by | Paramount Classics (USA) |
| Release date(s) |  9 May 2003 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Language | French |
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L'homme du train (The Man on the Train) is a 2002 French crime-drama film, directed by Patrice Leconte, starring Jean Rochefort and Johnny Hallyday. It is also known as Man on the Train in the United States
The movie was shot in Annonay, France and won the audience awards at the Venice Film Festival for "Best Film" and "Best Actor" (Jean Rochefort) in 2002.
This was the first foreign language film in which the British Film Council invested £500,000 (€750,000). The total budget of the film was €5,000,000.
Paramount Classics acquired the United States distribution rights of this film and gave it a limited US theatrical release on May 9, 2003; this film went on grossing $2.5 million in the United States theaters[1], which is a soild result for a non-English film[2]. Paramount Classics was ecstatic with this film's performance in the United States market. [1]
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[edit] Plot
A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
[edit] Hollywood Remake
Miramax Films is producing an English remake of this film.[3]
[edit] Trivia
At one point in the film, Jean Rochefort plays the piano for Johnny Hallyday and at the end of the piece asks him: "Are you musical?" Hallyday is one of France's best-known and most successful rock-and-rollers, so this is roughly the equivalent of Uma Thurman's line to John Travolta in "Pulp Fiction": "Do you dance?"
[edit] References
- ^ Making the Grade, Hollywood Reporter, 3 August 2004
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