Day Off (2001)

Drama
Comedy

Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.

Cast

Martin Socoa
Vitalie Rambaud
Marie-Thérèse, Vitalie's sister
Agenore Esposito
Huguette Lepange
Grand-Pré
Tired teacher
Mercier
Socoa's lawyer
Prosecutor Vivien
Mr Laroume
Patrick, Saïd's friend
Isabelle's mother
Poker friend
poker friend
Denis Pelloutier
poker friend
poker friend
poker friend
poker friend
supermarket manager
Marie Pelloutier
Bruno Ingarra
Agency director
Agency secretary
Frank, the dealer
Frank's wife
singing teacher
piano player
Mr Le Gourvellec
Mrs Le Gourvellec
train controller
fashion show organizer
Antonella Lorca
Garage mechanic
soldier on leave
nurse rugbyman
Nurse rugbyman
field owner

Crew

Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Associate Producer
Cinematography
Original Music Composer
Hair Designer