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It's the end of the summer Cécile is with her adoptive son Benjamin and his boyfriend Marc and his children Romain and Sophie: all the children are playing together and having a good time together.Then Suzanne, Cécile's mother tells Cécile that she has received a phone message of Mr. Haudrant, also Lise, Cécile's colleague in the travel agency has received the same phone message.Finally Francis Haudrant calls to the agency , Cécile listens to Francis telling that he is the father of Benjamin and that he wants to have news about is son Benjamin: they meet together in a "brasserie" and Francis explains that Benjamin' s mother died when he was 2 months young, that he spent 5 years in jail, that he went to Africa and now manages a garage in the suburbs of Paris.Francis wants to see his son and makes an attempt near the school of Benjamin.Cécile is quite angry-she wants to protect her son- and then goes to the garage of Francis: she saw there the pregnant spouse of Francis and Cécile speaks discreetly to Francis asking him to let Benjamin in peace.In the apartment Cécile and Marc are now speaking very much about Benjamin and Francis, Benjamin listens to the talk of the adults and on the next day in the college Benjamin speaks about his father as a lion hunter. Finally Suzanne and Lise convince Cécile to allow the meeting of Benjamin with his biological father Francis: the meeting take place in a public park and Francis will go to the judo , they will eat a hamburger and go to the cinema.All happens very well but Francis and Benjamin arrive 30 minutes late and again Cécile and Marc are speaking about Benjamin and Francis.

Grace de Capitani and Yves Rénier in Un père inattendu (1998)

What does happen when a biological father who has had a lot of problems and and who has given up his son for adoption reappears in the life in the life of his son and the adoptive mother ? A great confusion !! Cécile and her adoptive son have a quiet life, besides Cécile&#39;s boyfriend Marc and his children Romain and Sophie have a very good relationship with Cécile and BenjaminThen Francis Haudrant, the biological father of Benjamin, full of remorse, wants to meet his son: a surprise for Cécile ,a quite protective mother, but finally Francis manages to convince her: Francis and Benjamin will spend a moment together and Benjamin enjoys this moment-the judo training, the hamburger, the cinema and the ride in a motorcycle-. But soon there are tensions in the relationship between Cécile and Marc and also between Marc and Benjamin. Then there is a great moment of suspense when Benjamin makes a runaway.<br/><br/>An interesting and pleasant comedy about fatherhood with the good performances of Yves Rénier, Grace de Capitani, Pierre-Quentin Faesch, François-Régis Marchasson, Marie Arnaudy, Marion Game, Maud Rayer and Françoise Armelle.

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Un père inattendu

A pleasant comedy.

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