Betty Fisher and Other Stories

IMDb link: 0269329
IMDb rating: 6.8 (1,723 votes)
Genres: Comedy, Thriller, Crime, Drama, Romance
Director: Nicole Garcia, Sandrine Kiberlain, Claude Miller
Cast: Mathilde Seigner, Luck Mervil and others

Release date: 13 Sep 2002
Release year: 2001
Runtime: 103 minutes
Country: France, Canada
Keywords: france, reference to brigitte bardot, child, novelist, depression, death, criminal, parisian suburb, older woman younger man relationship, flashback

Plot:

Novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression after her young son Joseph dies. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap a boy named Jose to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows that it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is searching for her son with help from her boyfriend Francois--and some of his criminal cohorts.

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