The Under-Gifted

(1980)

★ 6.5 IMDb · 495 votes

Genres: Comedy

Year: 1980

Runtime: 92 мин

Country: France

Director: Claude Zidi

Cast: Даниель Отой, Мишель Галабрю, Мария Паком, Philippe Taccini, Юбер Дешам, Raymond Bussières, Étienne Draber, Tonie Marshall, Ришар Боринже, Françoise Michaud

Plot

The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!

Baptiste 'Bebel' Lavalle and his classmates in Versailles' private high-school Louis XIV enjoy their carefree life enough to deliberately fail the exams, a national record of zero graduating pupils. Permissive headmaster Léon Jumaucourt's bitchy wife Lucie takes charge, determined to make them pass. She's no match for Bebel's tricks, despite cruel abuse, but the gang also annoys the public, including the dumb police commissioner. After a mix-up between their bomb-alert prop and a real terrorist group's African embassy attack, Bebel's bunch is condemned to pass their exams or go to jail, and the commissioner, charged with supervision, is in no mood to let them off easily.