Les Pistolets en plastique

Original title: Les pistolets en plastique

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During a trip to Denmark, a man is arrested and accused of murdering his wife and three children. Though maintaining his innocence, he remains jailed as police investigate.During a trip to Denmark, a man is arrested and accused of murdering his wife and three children. Though maintaining his innocence, he remains jailed as police investigate.During a trip to Denmark, a man is arrested and accused of murdering his wife and three children. Though maintaining his innocence, he remains jailed as police investigate.

Director
- Jean-Christophe Meurisse
Writers
- Jean-Christophe Meurisse
- Amélie Philippe
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6.3/10

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Director
- Jean-Christophe Meurisse
Writers
- Jean-Christophe Meurisse
- Amélie Philippe
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 3 nominations total

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No pun intended - the movie is based on a very public person in France ... someone who killed his family! Before you get too mad, if like me you had not read anything about the movie: relax! The director himself told us this and I was like: that's too much information, isn't it? I can confirm it isn't ... it does not really play much of a role - as in surprise wise! Because this is a given - so it is not about him doing this evil act ... but him being on the run.

Now while this is based on a real person ... I assume everything else is made up. Although it would be funny (well not ha ha funny obviously), if the thing happened during a flight and after someone lands ... just to be clear once again: this is meant to be entertaining ... with incredible over the top characters ... and situations that are borderline ridiculous ... and beyond! It is ok to laugh ... if you get dark humor ... not for the sensitive people I reckon ... effects also work, nothing way too explicit I reckon, but some eye gauging stuff for sure too.

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The movie is inspired by real life events, the infamous Dupont de Ligonnès case, after Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, the man who disappeared from his house in Nantes (in Northwestern France) in 2011, after killing and burying in his garden his whole family (his wife and their four children) as well as the two family dogs. By the time the bodies were found, he had already disappeared, and as of August 2024, he is still missing. In the movie, the killer is called Paul Bernardin. On top of that, the story line of Michel Uzès in the movie, the man mistaken for Paul Bernardin, is similarly inspired by the story of Guy Joao, a retired man who was mistaken for Dupont de Ligonnès in Glasgow in 2019, and thus arrested and kept in jail for 26 hours, which sent the French media in a frenzy, with most newspapers the next day stating that the killer had been found. Like Michel Uzès, Guy Joao looked nothing like the killer, and wasn't the same height or age.