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Crossed Tracks (2007)
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?
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The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?
Rating:R
Genre:Drama, Thriller
Written By:Pierre Uytterhoeven, Claude Lelouch
In Theaters:12/1/2007
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Runtime:103 minutes
Studio:Les Films 13
Cast
Claude Lelouch
Director
Dominique Pinon
Pierre Laclos / Louis
Fanny Ardant
Judith Ralitzer
Audrey Dana
Huguette
Michèle Bernier
Florence
Myriam Boyer
La mère d'Huguette
Zinedine Soualem
le commissaire
Boris Ventura-Diaz
Alain
Marc Rioufol
Le propriétaire du vignoble
Thomas Le Douarec
Shaya Lelouch
la fille d'Huguette
Cyrille Eldin
Paul
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