The Valet

(2006)

★ 6 IMDb · 560 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 2006

Runtime: 85 мин

Country: France

Director: Francis Veber

Cast: Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Даниель Отой, Кристин Скотт Томас, Ришар Берри, Виржини Ледуайен, Дэни Бун, Michel Jonasz, Мишель Омон, Laurent Gamelon

Plot

Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.

A Parisian valet loves a woman who rejects him: she's in debt to open a bookshop, and he's not her ideal man. A billionaire two-times his wealthy wife with his beautiful mistress, a young supermodel. To draw the paparazzi and his wife off the trail of adultery, and to give his lawyer time to arrange a divorce that won't cost him a fortune, the billionaire pays the supermodel and the valet to pretend for a month to be a couple. Within days, the bookshop owner and the billionaire are jealous, the supermodel experiences life with a nice guy, and the valet has status and self-confidence. What will each do with newfound wisdom?