J'en suis!

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Movie
Original title J'en suis!
Country of production Canada ( Québec )
original language French
Publishing year 1997
length approx. 104 minutes
Rod
Director Claude Fournier
script Claude Fournier
Marie-José Raymond
production Mychèle Boudrias
Marie-José Raymond
music Dan Biggas
camera Eric Cayla
cut Denis Papillon
occupation

J'en suis! ( French : I'm in! ) is a Canadian comedy film directed by Claude Fournier from 1997 . Roy Dupuis played the main role of a man who has difficulties with his sexual orientation .

action

Dominique Samson practices Greco-Roman wrestling as a hobby with his friend and business partner Pierre Sanchez . Then they step naked in the shower.

Dominique is an attractive, confident architect in financial difficulties. He takes it easy when he has to close his business, but his wife Maude is concerned about the high debt. Otherwise they lead a happy family life with two children. Dominique insists that Maude go on vacation to Mexico for three weeks as planned. The children are now staying with their grandmother. Dominique tries unsuccessfully to find well-paid work and sells an old valuable chest of drawers to the antiques dealer Étienne De Beauregard, who is known to be gay . He hires him as an assistant because Dominique has a golden hand in the profitable use of art objects and, above all, because he also thinks he is gay. Étienne immediately tries to get closer. Dominique plays because of the very good salary and wears an ear stud on the right that his new boss gave him. The auctioneer Victor is Étienne's lover, but they are in a relationship crisis and are both interested in getting Dominique into bed. B. fails through a hole in the water bed.

Maude, Dominique's wife, comes back from vacation in a good mood. She got the psychiatrist Dr. Met Lamoureux who woos her fiercely. Maude soon becomes suspicious of the changed clothes and the implausible excuses of her husband. She seeks medical advice and complains to the acquaintance on vacation about her marital problems. The doctor tries to take advantage of the situation and gets his patient to lock her husband out. Everyone thinks Dominique is gay, including his mother. After all, he's all messed up and sexually disoriented. During an attempt at reconciliation and a romantic weekend with his wife, he is unusually impotent , which throws him into a crisis. He fears that his pretense of being gay really made him it. His boss Étienne is very happy with him and his influence makes him president of the Antique Dealers Guild . He invites him over on the weekend. Dominique has hired the actor Hugo to play his homosexual friend. In addition to the normal fee, Hugo charges extra for nude scenes. But he's now committed to something else, and that's why Pierre steps in as a supposedly gay friend. Dominique attracts covetous glances in a short tartan skirt. But not he is involved in the moan of lust in Pierre's room, but Pierre and his smuggled short-term friend. Those who listen in front of the room door mistakenly give Dominique applause, who in the gay male world finally comes into the reputation of a sex god.

Dominique is decorating a home with the attractive blonde interior designer Rose Petipas. Her salient feminine attributes revive his masculine desires. Before they can take action, however, his wife Maude intervenes and the two are passionately reconciled in the laundry room of a hotel. But Rose and Pierre get closer. Dominique is finally cured of his sexual confusion and returns to his family.

Some time ago he happened to see an old wooden figure in a shop window and bought a total of three of these little statues for a few dollars. According to an expert estimate, the figures have proven to be very valuable and are at least 25,000 years old from the Pleistocene . With this Dominique can pay his debts.

Étienne cannot do without his talented assistant and keeps him despite his heterosexuality . He becomes a grandfather substitute for the two children. The minister of culture, however, wants a gay man to lead a museum project. They regard each other as a big family and support each other in their professional lives. Dominique recommends Pierre, who reluctantly plays along as an object of desire and lets himself be covered with sun lotion.

Reviews

  • René Homier-Roy said on the DVD cover that the film was funny with amusing gags ( “… trés drôle, des gags amusants” ).

Background information

The English title is Heads or Tails .

The revenues amounted to 850,000 in the US circa  US dollars and in Canada about 829,369  CAD .

The film was released in Canada in January 2007 in French with English subtitles on DVD with no extras.

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