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Directed by | Steve Bendelack |
Produced by | Peter Bennett-Jones Tim Bevan Eric Fellner |
Screenplay by |
Hamish McColl Robin Driscoll |
Story by | Simon McBurney |
Based on | Television series Mr. Bean |
Starring |
Rowan Atkinson Emma de Caunes Maxim Baldry Willem Dafoe Karel Roden Jean Rochefort |
Music by | Howard Goodall |
Cinematography | Baz Irvine |
Edited by | Tony Cranstoun |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures |
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85 minutes |
Country | France United Kingdom Germany United States |
Language | English French Russian |
Budget | $25 million |
Box office | $229.7 million |
Mr. Bean's Holiday is a 2007 comedy film, directed by Steve Bendelack, music composed by Howard Goodall, produced by Peter Bennett-Jones, Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner, written by Hamish McColl and Robin Driscoll and starring Rowan Atkinson, Maxim Baldry, Emma de Caunes and Willem Dafoe. It is the second film based on the television series Mr. Bean, following the 1997 Bean.
The film was theatrically released on 24 March 2007 by Universal Pictures. The film grossed $229.7 million on a $25 million budget. Mr. Bean's Holiday was released on DVD and HD DVD on 27 November 2007. The film was released in the United Kingdom on March 30, 2007, and topped the country's box office for the next two weekends, before being dethroned by Wild Hogs.
Mr. Bean (Rowan Atkinson) drives to a church fete where he wins the first prize in a raffle – a holiday involving a train journey to Cannes, a video camera, and €200.
Following a misunderstanding involving a taxi at Paris railway station Gare du Nord, Bean is forced to make his way unorthodoxly towards the Gare de Lyon from La Defense to board his next train towards Cannes. However, a vending machine prevents him from boarding, and he misses his train. Whilst waiting for the next, he samples French seafood cuisine at the restaurant Le Train Bleu, mistakenly eating a langoustine whole and pouring the oysters he took a dislike to into a woman's handbag.