The New Toy
(2022)
★ 5.9 IMDb · 182 votes
Year: 2022
Runtime: 112 мин
Country: France
Director: James Huth
Cast: Даниель Отой, Жамель Деббуз, Алис Белаиди, Симон Фалю, Lucie Fabry, Anna Cervinka, Laurent Saint-Gérard, Salim Kissari, Lucía Sánchez, Dorylia Calmel
Plot
Samy lives happily with his wife, Alice, in a poor urban housing project amongst friends and neighbours. For his son’s birthday, the richest man in France throws open his grand department store, offering the boy whatever he wants. Alexandre chooses Samy, the night watchman, as his new toy…
Samy lives happily outside the system, in the housing projects, alongside his childhood friends and his wife Jihane, who is expecting their first child. To provide for the needs of his future family - very reluctantly - he takes a job as a night watchman in a luxury goods store. Philippe Etienne is the wealthiest man in France. Cold, unfeeling, since his wife died a year ago, he has devoted himself entirely to his business. Alexandre - his only son, and heir to the entire Etienne fortune - keeps his father at arms' length, seeking refuge in the lonely world of the spoiled child. For his birthday, Philippe opens the toy department of the store where Samy works and tells Alexandre he can take whatever he wants. Alexandre chooses Samy.