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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 9780792858454
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 079285845X
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 23, 2003
Running Time: 91 minutes
Sales Rank: 66564
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Editorial Review:
Description:
Meet the house staff that shows no merci! Paul Rudd (Clueless, 'Friends') and Romany Malco (The Tuxedo) star in this uniquely uproarious comedy of manners that delivers 'fresh, spontaneous humor' (Variety)! When two American half-brothersone white, one blackinherit a huge mansion abroad, they can't believe their luck especially when one of the live-in servants turns out to be the beautiful Isabelle (Sylvie Testud)! But when they discover that the estate is mired in debt and attempt to sell it to the highest bidder, the servants suddenly turn on them and sabotage every prospective sale! Can the beleaguered brothers survive this uprising? Or will their escalating battle for Isabelle's affections make them lose it all?
Amazon.com:
The Chateau is a trifle, yet it may stick in your head. Paul Rudd and Romany Malco play two American brothers, Graham and Allen, who inherit an enormous French chateau when their hitherto unknown great-uncle dies. The bickering pair, equipped with only a smattering of French, soon discover that the chateau is hugely in debt and the servants don't want to leave. While trying to sell the place, they vie for the affections of a sweet maid (Sylvie Testud) and comically grapple with cultural differences. The Chateau has a bit of social satire, some deft character portraits, and some very funny mangled French. Rudd and Malco banter entertainingly; Rudd is particularly good, both funny and a little sad as Graham flails to find a new life that he didn't fully realize he wanted. Though slight, the movie has surprising moments that cut deeper than you'd expect. --Bret Fetzer
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Awful Film - made it would seem by College Students
Why on earth a very talented actor like Paul Rudd would appear in an improvised college student style "B" Movie is beyond me ! It could have been tolerable if it had'nt been for the appalling quality of the picture quality - it was like watching a damaged VHS tape / not what you expect in 2007 on DVD - not a funny film either with the black brother in the movie using an obsenity every 2 nd word / i would love to know what sort of brothers they were ?? Not recommended unless you like to watch a students ... Read More
Rating:  - A film that proves that digital video is not going to "save" the industry...
I saw the directors of this "film" on Charlie Rose, of all places (Charlie usually lends his TV show to more important filmmakers than the creators of this "film"). All they talked about was how easy it was to make their film with digital video cameras. I'm glad it was easy to make their film, because it certainly wasn't easy to watch it. This film is slight, stupid, boring, and terrible, from both a technical standpoint and an aesthetic one. It seems the filmmakers said "let's go to a chateau with some ... Read More
Rating: - Shoot the Americans - not the chicken and boar, PLEASE!!!!
After having seen this movie, I understand why Europeans, Arabs and everybody else hates Americans... There are scenes where we hoped the servants would either poison the two annoying guys from Kansas or just flat out shoot them in a hunting accident and make them disappear.
The story idea is great, but the acting and script is so poor and unworthy of being described in a review.
Jesse must either have personal ties to the building where he filmed-or really fallen in love with the building. Everytime ... Read More
Rating: - Garbage
I cannot believe the black actor in this film is so sterotypical of the ghetto or uneducated image we've seen in films like "baby boy". Almost every line he had included a cuss word or n word. He didn't add a thing to the film except to be an annoyance. I don't know what this film was about. There are parts where there is a long silence with no talking. The whole movie was shot in the house with the exception of the maid when she finally leaves the house.
There are a few scenes where the characters are running ... Read More
Rating:  - Surprisingly good bijou of a movie
I'd been told this was a "small" movie, and wasn't expecting a great deal, but was thoroughly entertained. The plot develops in surprising ways; and the characters seem appropriately off-balance throughout. I understand portions of the movie were improvised, which may account for this. If so, it's a thoroughly appropriate tactic. The only word of warning is that you may need some French to understand the entertaining way it's fractured in this movie, and the iron control the French characters must be exercising to ... Read More
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