Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
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Laura Benson as Elsie Wellman
Adolph Green as Joey Wellman
Linda Lavin as Lena Apthrop
Gérard Depardieu as Christian Gauthier
Geraldine Chaplin as Terry Amstrong
François-Eric Gendron as Lionel Cohn-Martin
Georges Fricker as Roxy Darcel
John Ashton as Harry Dempsey
Caroline Silhol as Dora Dempsey
Micheline Presle as Isabelle Gauthier
Patrick Bonnel as Le boucher
Charlotte Bonnet as La femme chauffeur de taxi
Isabelle Wolfe as Laureline
Jean-Marc Cozic as Tintin
Tony Dias as Valentina
Guillaume Farny as Bateman
Alain Fromager as L'étudiant dans le bureau de Gauthier
Peter Hudson as Le Spectre
Raphaëline Goupilleau as L'étudiante dans le bureau de Gauthier
Isabelle Habiague as La jeune femme qui chante
Ludivine Sagnier as La petite fille de la place du village
Jacques Le Servot as Spirit
Agnès Seelinger as La domestique du manoir
Gisèle Soban as Elektra
Anne Teyssèdre as La jeune femme dans le bureau de Gauthier
Isabelle Turpault as Catwoman
Michel Weinstadt as Corto Maltese
Abbes Zahmani as Le Concombre Masqué
Lucienne Hamon as Mme Roget
Catherine Arditi as La boulangère
Anne Roussel as La jeune femme fatiguée
Jean Champion as Le chauffeur de taxi
Emmanuelle Chaulet as La secrétaire de Gauthier
Pierre Decazes as Le garagiste
Nicolas Trong as Le jeune homme dans l'avion
Françoise Bertin as La cliente de la marchande de légumes
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