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Stolen Holidays - Les Petites Vacance (PG)

  • Consumer Advice: Contains mild language and emotionally intense scenes
  • Run time: 1 hour 31 mins
  • Language: French
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release date: 29th June 2007

Plot Synopsis

Danielle (Bernadette Lafont), a grandmother in her sixties, is planning to take her two grandchildren to their father’s house for the Easter vacation. Since retiring as a schoolteacher, Danielle has regularly taken on this responsibility after her daughter’s divorce. This time, however, the children’s father is not there to welcome them, giving Danielle the opportunity to spend a bit more time with her grandchildren and to take them out for the day.

Jumping at every opportunity presented to them, Danielle soon transforms this day-outing into an impromptu holiday. Only what starts out as a fun adventure gradually turns into an inexorable deconstructing experience, and it soon becomes impossible for Danielle to contemplate taking the kids back…