French Exit (2020)
Releasing at February 12, 2021 in theaters and on digital
Comedy, Drama
French Exit is drama comedy film directed by Azazel Jacobs, and written by Patrick DeWitt. The film stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne, Imogen Poots and Danielle Macdonald. It primiered at October 10, 2020 on New York Film Festival.
“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price (Michelle Pfeiffer), but things didn’t go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris, accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm (Lucas Hedges) and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.
Director: Azazel Jacobs
Writers: Patrick DeWitt (book)
Stars: Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, Tracy Letts, Valerie Mahaffey, Susan Coyne, Imogen Poots, Danielle Macdonald
►Cast
| Michelle Pfeiffer | ► | Frances Price |
| Lucas Hedges | ► | Malcolm Price |
| Tracy Letts | ► | Franklin Prince (voice) |
| Valerie Mahaffey | ► | Mme. Reynard |
| Susan Coyne | ► | Joan |
| Imogen Poots | ► | Susan |
| Danielle Macdonald | ► | Madeleine the Medium |
| Isaach De Bankolé | ► | Julius |
| Daniel di Tomasso | ► | Tom |
| Eddie Holland | ► | Young Malcom Prince |
| Matt Holland | ► | Headmaster |
| Christine Lan | ► | Sylvia |
| Robert Higden | ► | Mr. Baker |
| Larry Day | ► | Ralph Rudy |
| Laura Mitchell | ► | Hostess |
| Christopher B. MacCabe | ► | Daniel |
| Julian Bailey | ► | Beat Cop |
| Rebecca Gibian | ► | Mr. Baker’s Assistant |
| Una Kay | ► | Confetti-Throwing Woman on Ship |
| Christopher Hayes | ► | Waiter on Ship |
| Bruce Dinsmore | ► | Captain |
| Vlasta Vrana | ► | Boris Maurus (Ship’s Doctor) |
| Jean-Michel Le Gal | ► | Customs Agent |
| Abdul Saboor Aiasuddin | ► | Cab Driver |
| Benoit Mauffette | ► | Rude French Waiter |
| Marc Raffray | ► | Nice French Waiter |
| Marine Chard | ► | School Girl #1 |
| Charlotte Hoepffner | ► | School Girl #2 |
| Younes Bouab | ► | Brave Man in Paris Park |
| Deen Abboud | ► | Man Who Takes Cash in Park |
| Nikola Masri | ► | Wine Clerk |
| Jelena Djukic | ► | Cashier |
| Stéphane Boucher | ► | Man in Alley |
| L. Fernando Becerra Sánchez | ► | Waiter |
| Serge Martineau | ► | Dead Body on Ship |