French Exit

French Exit

R 2021 · 113 min · ★ 5.6 · Comedy, Drama

“My plan was to die before the money ran out,” says 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price, 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 and a cat named Small Frank—who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances’s dead husband.

Directed by Azazel Jacobs · Written by Patrick DeWitt

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Michelle Pfeiffer Frances Price
Lucas Hedges Malcolm Price
Tracy Letts Franklin Price (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 Malcolm Price
Matt Holland Headmaster
Christine Lan Sylvia

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