Just Visiting (film)
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| Directed by | Jean-Marie Gaubert |
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Patrice Ledoux Ricardo Mestres |
| Screenplay by |
Jean-Marie Poiré Christian Clavier John Hughes |
| Based on |
Les Visiteurs written by Jean-Marie Poiré Christian Clavier |
| Starring |
Jean Reno Christina Applegate Christian Clavier Malcolm McDowell Tara Reid Bridgette Wilson |
| Narrated by | Kelsey Grammer |
| Music by | John Powell |
| Cinematography | Ueli Steiger |
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| Distributed by | Buena Vista Pictures |
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88 minutes |
| Country | United States France |
| Language | English French |
| Budget | $35 million |
| Box office | $16.2 million |
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| Film score by John Powell | |
| Released | April 10, 2001 |
| Recorded | 2001 |
| Genre | Score |
| Length | 36:02 |
| Label | Varèse Sarabande |
Just Visiting (Les Visiteurs en Amérique for the French release) is a 2001 comedy film that is an American remake of the French film Les Visiteurs. It stars Jean Reno, Christina Applegate, Christian Clavier, Malcolm McDowell, Tara Reid, and Bridgette Wilson. It is about a medieval knight and his serf who travel to 21st century Chicago, meeting the knight's descendant.
Unlike the original film, the remake was successful neither in France nor in the United States.
This was Hollywood Pictures' final production before it folded into the management of its sister company, Touchstone Pictures until Hollywood Pictures released the 2006 horror movie Stay Alive.
The backstory takes place in 12th century England, where Lord Thibault Malféte is about to marry Princess Rosalind, the daughter of the reigning King. At the wedding banquet, by mistake, an enemy known as the Earl of Warwick gives Thibault a potion which makes him hallucinate (and which was actually intended for Rosalind by a witch hired and paid by the Earl), and under its influence, he kills his own bride (rather than her father, as in the French version) believing she is a ferocious monster. While under sentence of death, he asks his servant, André Le Paté (Christian Clavier) to find a wizard (Malcolm McDowell) to help him. The wizard gives him a potion that will send him back to the moment before he killed Princess Rosalind. The incompetent wizard botches the spell, and instead, Thibault and Andre are sent into the 21st century.
They end up in a museum in Chicago where they are arrested by the police. They are rescued by Julia Malféte (Christina Applegate), a museum employee who closely resembles Princess Rosalind. She thinks that Thibault is her distant French cousin who drowned while yachting a couple of years ago. Thibault soon finds out that Julia is descended from his family and realizes he must return to the 12th century to correct the past. Julia introduces them to the modern American style of life where norms from medieval times no longer apply. Before the return to his time, Thibault decides to protect Julia from her money-hungry fiance, Hunter (Matt Ross). Meanwhile, Andre falls for a pretty gardener, Angelique (Tara Reid) who presents him with the world of equal rights for all people.
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