The Intouchables

4.50
    The Intouchables
    2011

    Synopsis

    A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.

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    Cast

    • François CluzetPhilippe
    • Omar SyDriss
    • Dominique HenryPilote Parapente
    • Anne Le NyYvonne
    • Clotilde MolletMarcelle
    • Alba Gaïa BellugiElisa
    • Audrey FleurotMagalie
    • Cyril MendyAdama
    • Christian AmeriAlbert
    • Marie-Laure DescoureauxChantal

    Recommendations

    • 88

      ReelViews

      Enjoy this movie for what it is - the kind of motion picture that can cause Champaign-like giddiness - and don't obsess over how true-to-life this work of fiction is.
    • 80

      Salon

      Let me come clean right now and tell you that I enjoyed The Intouchables quite a bit. If you're looking for a lightweight summer change of pace, with just a smidgen of Continental flair, here it is.
    • 67

      Entertainment Weekly

      The power dynamic may charm the French, but it's likely to push the cringe buttons of local moviegoers in Obama's post-"The Green Mile America." Apart from the wince-inducing moments, The Intouchables is often a pleasant buddy picture.
    • 60

      Movieline

      Actually, The Intouchables isn't bad - its merely shameless, but at least it's overtly so.
    • 58

      The A.V. Club

      Sy and Cluzet give their parts more conviction than they deserve, even when the former is forced to re-enact the falsetto-singing-in-the-bubblebath bit from Pretty Woman. But even their energy can't revive a corpse this dead.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Corny, calculating and commercial...Their slickly executed culture-clash character piece is stuffed chock full of hard-knock life lessons that owe much more to the conventions of the screen than the tough realities of social deprivation and of the severely handicapped.
    • 40

      Time Out

      Cluzet and Sy nonetheless make for ingratiating foils; the extended opening sequence in which the duo outwits a pair of cops like a hell-raising Laurel and Hardy could be a stellar short comedy if it weren't married to the deadly self-serious shtick that follows.
    • 38

      Slant Magazine

      A cheeky dream-drama about the friendship between a rich, white quadriplegic and a penurious black job-seeker, the premise of The Intouchables alone nearly renders analysis redundant.

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