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French Exit (2021)

R02/12/2021Comedy, Drama1h 53m

Overview

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

Top Billed Cast

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    Michelle Pfeiffer

    Frances Price

  2. Cast 1

    Lucas Hedges

    Malcolm Price

  3. Cast 1

    Tracy Letts

    Franklin Price (voice)

  4. Cast 1

    Valerie Mahaffey

    Mme Reynard

  5. Cast 1

    Susan Coyne

    Joan

  6. Cast 1

    Imogen Poots

    Susan

  7. Cast 1

    Danielle Macdonald

    Madeleine the Medium

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    Isaach de Bankolé

    Julius

  9. Cast 1

    Daniel Di Tomasso

    Tom

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