20 Rules! For Sylvie

20 Rules! For Sylvie

2014 · 96 min · ★ 4.0 · Comedy

Adalbert, a paranoid, overprotective single dad imposes a set of 20 rules on his daughter Sylvie before she leaves the small town of Ormont-Dessus for university. Making sure that she obeys them perfectly, he secretly follows her to Basel, but ends up falling in with a party crowd and breaking all the rules himself.

Directed by Jacques à Bâle · Written by Gian Caduff

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