French Exit
Seen it?2021 | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
Weeknight Watchearly ratingWhy it’s a Weeknight Watch
With a box office flop and a lukewarm 49% audience score, it's a mixed bag. Fine if it's on; don't plan your night around it.
Based on critics, audiences, awards, box office and buzz. Details below.Is it for you?
- Who'll love it
- A natural pick for spy-story fans and anyone with a complicated family (so, everyone). Nobody is quite who they seem. If you loved The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun or Can You Ever Forgive Me?, start here. Family ties get tested in ways that ring true.
- The mood
- Funny with heart.
- The pace
- Quiet, then quietly devastating, at 1 hr 53 min.
- What might put you off
- Rated R: meant for adults.
- Skip it if you're after something serious tonight.
“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.
How it earned its rating
- CriticsSolid
64% on Rotten Tomatoes, 56 on Metacritic
- AudiencesBelow par
Our audience score: 49%
- AwardsBelow par
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe and 1 Independent Spirit Award.
- Box office & staying powerWeak
$2 million worldwide
- Buzz & cultural impactBelow par
About 47K people sought it out in the past year
Trailer
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Cast & crew
Directed by Azazel Jacobs
- Michelle PfeifferFrances Price
- Lucas HedgesMalcolm Price
- Tracy LettsFranklin Price (voice)
- Valerie MahaffeyMme Reynard
- Susan CoyneJoan
- Imogen PootsSusan
- Danielle MacdonaldMadeleine the Medium
- Isaach de BankoléJulius
- Daniel Di TomassoTom
- Eddie HollandYoung Malcolm Price