Les Compères
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Les Compères is a 1983 French movie written and directed by Francis Veber, and starring Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Richard and Anny Duperey.
This movie was remade as Fathers' Day (1997).
[edit] Plot
A teenaged son has run away. His mother is married to her son's stepfather, and she remembers two former lovers from around the time her son was concieved, either of whom might be the birth father. She calls up both to search for her son, by telling each of them that the runaway is their son. One of them (Depardieu) is a journalist, while the other (Richard) is a former teacher who was on the point of committing suicide when she called. The two former boyfriends finally meet and together they locate the son. In the end the son tells both Depardieu and Richard (when the other is out of earshot) that his mother thinks that he is the father. Thus, the son adopts both of them as his father, and is reconciled with his stepfather.
[edit] Trivia
The title translates literally as "The Accomplices," and that the word "Père" appears in this word denotes that it is a pun.
