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* CoincidentalBroadcast:
** After the debt collector ends up victim of ElectrifiedBathtub, the trio switches their car's radio on as they drive away... and singer Claude François (who died of this in 1978) gets mentioned on it right away.
** When the three brothers pretend that they want to buy a TV, the sales assistant turns on the TV and there is a news bulletin about Michaël's kidnapping. The three brothers have to run away.
** After the debt collector ends up victim of ElectrifiedBathtub, the trio switches their car's radio on as they drive away... and singer Claude François (who died of this in 1978) gets mentioned on it right away.
** When the three brothers pretend that they want to buy a TV, the sales assistant turns on the TV and there is a news bulletin about Michaël's kidnapping. The three brothers have to run away.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast:
** After the debt collector ends up victim of ElectrifiedBathtub, the trio switches their car's radio on as they drive away... and singer Claude François (who died of this in 1978) gets mentioned on it right away.
**CoincidentalBroadcast: When the three brothers pretend that they want to buy a TV, the sales assistant turns on the TV and there is a news bulletin about Michaël's kidnapping. The three brothers have to run away.
** After the debt collector ends up victim of ElectrifiedBathtub, the trio switches their car's radio on as they drive away... and singer Claude François (who died of this in 1978) gets mentioned on it right away.
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* YourTelevisionHatesYou: After the debt collector ends up victim of ElectrifiedBathtub, the trio switches their car's radio on as they drive away... and singer Claude François (who died of this in 1978) gets mentioned on it right away.
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** After the debt collector ends up victim of ElectrifiedBathtub, the trio switches their car's radio on as they move drive away... and singer Claude François (who died of this in 1978) gets mentioned on it right away.
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** After the debt collector ends up victim of ElectrifiedBathtub, the trio switches their car's radio on...on as they move away... and singer Claude François (who died of this in 1978) gets mentioned on it right away.
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* ElectrifiedBathtub: The debt collector who comes at Pascal's flat ends up victim of this, crashing into the bathroom and grabbing a plugged-on hair dryer and ending up in the (filled) bathtub after getting pushed around and mocked by the trio.
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* ElectrifiedBathtub: The debt collector who comes at Pascal's flat ends up victim of this, crashing into the bathroom and grabbing a plugged-on hair dryer and ending up in the (filled) bathtub after getting pushed around and mocked by the trio. Fortunately for the three brothers, he doesn't die of it.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: When the three brothers pretend that they want to buy a TV, the sales assistant turns on the TV and there is a news bulletin about Michaël's kidnapping. The three brothers have to run away.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: CoincidentalBroadcast:
** After the debt collector ends up victim of ElectrifiedBathtub, the trio switches their car's radio on... and singer Claude François (who died of this in 1978) gets mentioned on it right away.
** When the three brothers pretend that they want to buy a TV, the sales assistant turns on the TV and there is a news bulletin about Michaël's kidnapping. The three brothers have to run away.
** After the debt collector ends up victim of ElectrifiedBathtub, the trio switches their car's radio on... and singer Claude François (who died of this in 1978) gets mentioned on it right away.
** When the three brothers pretend that they want to buy a TV, the sales assistant turns on the TV and there is a news bulletin about Michaël's kidnapping. The three brothers have to run away.
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* ElectrifiedBathtub: The debt collector who comes at Pascal's flat ends up victim of this, crashing into the bathroom and grabbing a plugged-on hair dryer and ending up in the (filled) bathtub after getting pushed around and mocked by the trio.
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''The Three Brothers'' (''Les Trois Frères'') is a 1995 French comedy film directed by Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan and starring Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus (Creator/LesInconnus).
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''The Three Brothers'' (''Les Trois Frères'') is a 1995 French comedy film directed by Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan and starring Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus (Creator/LesInconnus).Légitimus, known collectively as Creator/LesInconnus.
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* TheNineties: With the Super Nintendo, the Game Boy, Pascal's laptop... you know for sure in which decade you are.
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* TheNineties: With the Super Nintendo, the Game Boy, Pascal's laptop... you know for sure in which decade you are.are, and in which it was filmed.
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[[TheDanza Didier, Bernard and Pascal]] were born to an unknown father and their mother abandoned them. Each of them has followed different paths: Didier is a security guard in a supermarket, Bernard is homeless and Bernard is a manager in a communication company. The three half-brothers meet each other for the first time when [[PlotTriggeringDeath their mother dies]] and the notary informs them that they will [[UnexpectedInheritance inherit her fortune]].
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[[TheDanza Didier, Bernard and Pascal]] were born to an unknown father and their mother abandoned them. Each of them has followed different paths: Didier is a security guard in a supermarket, Bernard is homeless and Bernard Pascal is a manager in a communication company. The three half-brothers meet each other for the first time when [[PlotTriggeringDeath their mother dies]] and the notary informs them that they will [[UnexpectedInheritance inherit her fortune]].
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-->T'as l'air en super ''good'' forme ! (''You seem to be in very good shape!'')
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-->''Thanks'' !
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-->T'as l'air en super ''good'' forme ! (''You seem to be in very good shape!'')
-->''Thanks''shape!'')\\
''Thanks'' !
-->''Thanks''
''Thanks'' !
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A {{Sequel}}, ''Les Trois Frères, le retour'' (English: ''The Three Brothers are back'') was made in 2014.
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* WorldOfJerkass: The main characters are a freeloading would-be actor, a voyeur hypocrite security guard and an upstart snobbish yuppie. Other characters include a self-centered kid who demands the latest video consoles, a mother who leaves her 7-year kid alone for several days, a racist middle-aged man, an unpleasant debt collector, a contemptuous notary, a corrupt and manipulative company executive...
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* WorldOfJerkass: The main characters are a freeloading would-be actor, a voyeur hypocrite security guard and an upstart snobbish yuppie. Other characters include a self-centered kid who demands the latest video consoles, a mother who leaves her 7-year 7-year-old kid alone for several days, a racist middle-aged man, an unpleasant debt collector, a contemptuous notary, a corrupt and manipulative company executive...
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Didier, Bernard and Pascal were born to an unknown father and their mother abandoned them. Each of them has followed different paths: Didier is a security guard in a supermarket, Bernard is homeless and Bernard is a manager in a communication company. The three half-brothers meet each other for the first time when their mother dies and the notary informs them that they will inherit her fortune.
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[[TheDanza Didier, Bernard and Pascal Pascal]] were born to an unknown father and their mother abandoned them. Each of them has followed different paths: Didier is a security guard in a supermarket, Bernard is homeless and Bernard is a manager in a communication company. The three half-brothers meet each other for the first time when [[PlotTriggeringDeath their mother dies dies]] and the notary informs them that they will [[UnexpectedInheritance inherit her fortune.
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''The Three Brothers'' (''Les Trois Frères'') is a 1995 French comedy film directed by Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan and starring Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus.
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''The Three Brothers'' (''Les Trois Frères'') is a 1995 French comedy film directed by Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan and starring Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus.Légitimus (Creator/LesInconnus).
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* GratuitousFrench: Gratuitous English. Pascal and his colleagues use a lot of English words.
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* GratuitousFrench: Gratuitous English. GratuitousEnglish: Pascal and his colleagues use a lot of English words.
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* TheNineties: With the Super Nintendo, the Game Boy, Pascal's laptop... you know for sure in which decade you are.
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* ConMan: The three brothers engage is several short cons to get food, drinks and cigarettes for free (like pretending to have won the lottery or pretending that Michaël is choking on a pit).
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* ConMan: The three brothers engage is several short cons to get food, drinks and cigarettes for free (like pretending to have won the lottery or pretending that Michaël is choking on a pit).pit in a restaurant).
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* SiblingTeam: The three brothers (actually half-brothers) decide to go together to Nice to bring Michaël to his mother, they take care of him and they commit together several offences to get food, drinks, cigarettes and video consoles.
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* GoodSamaritan: Marie helps the three brothers when Michaël is sick, even though she knows the police looks for them.
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* {{Shoutout}}: At Marie's home, the three brothers read ''Literature/TheLittlePrince'' to Michaël.
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* SlobsVersusSnobs: Pascal is a wealthy manager. He lives in a big flat, he is interested in contemporary art, he likes eating sushi... His half-brother Bernard is homeless and he start living in his flat. Later, his second half-brother Didier, a security guard, becomes homeless too and he also settles down in his flat. Living together will turn out to be difficult.
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->''Cent patates... Je vais avoir cent patates !!! (Two bricks... I'll get two bricks!!![[note]]''Cent patates'' is a slang phrase for 1 million French francs, so approximately $170,000.[[/note]])''
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->''Cent patates... Je vais avoir cent patates !!! (Two bricks... I'll get two bricks!!![[note]]''Cent bricks!!!)''[[note]]''Cent patates'' is a slang phrase for 1 million French francs, so approximately $170,000.[[/note]])''
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->''Cent patates... Je vais avoir cent patates !!! (Ten bricks... I'll get ten bricks!!!)''
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->''Cent patates... Je vais avoir cent patates !!! (Ten (Two bricks... I'll get ten bricks!!!)''
two bricks!!![[note]]''Cent patates'' is a slang phrase for 1 million French francs, so approximately $170,000.[[/note]])''
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* NeverWinTheLottery:
** In the bar, Bernard pretends he has a winning ticket to get away without paying anything. The ticket is actually a loser.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} in the end: Michaël finds a real winning ticket. [[DoubleSubversion Double subverted]] because the winning ticket only gives the opportunity to participate in a TV show. During this show, Didier only wins the lowest amount: 100,000 French francs ($17,000).
** In the bar, Bernard pretends he has a winning ticket to get away without paying anything. The ticket is actually a loser.
** {{Subverted|Trope}} in the end: Michaël finds a real winning ticket. [[DoubleSubversion Double subverted]] because the winning ticket only gives the opportunity to participate in a TV show. During this show, Didier only wins the lowest amount: 100,000 French francs ($17,000).
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* RichesToRags: Pascal was wealthy and he loses everything in the course of the film, to the point of living like a tramp. Didier was less well-off, but he also loses everything he had.
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* ChewbaccaDefense: During the final trial, Didier, Bernard and Pascal make many points that have nothing to do with the case. For example, Pascal makes a speech about discrimination against black people.
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* ChewbaccaDefense: During the final trial, Didier, Bernard and Pascal make many points that have nothing to do with the case. For example, Bernard repeats his sales spiel about the stain remover, and Pascal makes a speech about discrimination against black people.
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: The three brothers are jerkasses (Bernard is a scrounger, Didier is a voyeur and Pascal is a snob), but they all really care about Michaël.
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->''Cent patates... Je vais avoir cent patates !!! (Ten bricks... I'll get ten bricks!!!)''
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Bernard tries to sell a stain remover on a market. Didier is observing a woman inside a fitting room thanks to a security camera when his future father-in-law turns up. Pascal gets to the office and says hello to his colleagues and boss.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Bernard tries to sell a stain remover on a market. Pascal gets to the office and says hello to his colleagues and boss. Didier is observing a woman inside a fitting room thanks to a security camera when his future father-in-law turns up. Pascal gets to the office and says hello to his colleagues and boss.
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* GratuitousFrench: Gratuitous English. Pascal and his colleagues use a lot of English words in their professional jargon.
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* GratuitousFrench: Gratuitous English. Pascal and his colleagues use a lot of English words words.
-->T'as l'air en super ''good'' forme ! (''You seem to be intheir professional jargon.very good shape!'')
-->''Thanks'' !
-->T'as l'air en super ''good'' forme ! (''You seem to be in
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: When the three brothers pretend that they want to buy a TV, the sales assistant turns on the TV and there is a news bulletin about Michaël's kidnapping. The three brothers have to run away.
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* WorldOfJerkass: The main characters are a freeloading would-be actor, a voyeur hypocrite security guard and an upstart snobbish yuppie. Other characters include a self-centered kid who demands the latest video consoles, a mother who leaves her 7-year kid alone for several days, a racist middle-aged man, an unpleasant debt collector, a contemptuous notary, a corrupt and manipulative company executive...
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* AssholeVictim: The notary and the debt collector who Didier and Bernard assault.
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* ConMan: The three brothers engage is several short cons to get food, drinks and cigarettes for free (like pretending to have won the lottery or pretending that Michaël is choking on a pit).
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* DisappearedDad: Michaël grew up without knowing his father. The three brothers do not know their father either.
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* DistinguishingMark: The three brothers and Michaël have a distinctive birthmark on the buttock.
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* LikeFatherLikeSon: Both Didier and his son Michaël grew up without knowing their father.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: Didier discovers that Michaël is actually his son. This is confirmed by Michaël's birthmark.
* LukeYouAreMyFather: Didier discovers that Michaël is actually his son. This is confirmed by Michaël's birthmark.
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* ParentalAbandonment: The three brothers' background. Their fathers are unknown and their mother abandoned them.
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* SinkOrSwimFatherhood: The three brothers have to take care of Michaël without any prior experience of fatherhood.
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* ComicTrio: Didier is the navigator (he brings Michaël to Pascal's flat, he starts assaulting the notary and the debt collector...), Bernard is the driver (he follows Didier's decisions without questioning them) and Pascal is the complainer (he criticizes the actions of the other two, but he is unable to stop them).
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* ClearMyName: Didier, Bernard and Pascal are wrongly accused of kidnapping Michaël. At the same time, they are justly accused of several minor offences.
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* DisguisedInDrag:
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** During the TV show, Bernard disguise himself as a woman to inpersonate Pascal's wife.
** Michaël has to disguise himself as a girl because the three brothers are afraid someone could recognize him and call the police.
** During the TV show, Bernard disguise himself as a woman to inpersonate Pascal's wife.
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* ChewbaccaDefense: During the final trial, Didier, Bernard and Pascal make many points that have nothing to do with the case. For example, Pascal makes a speech about discrimination against black people.
* CourtroomAntic: PlayedForLaughs during the final trial.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Bernard tries to sell a stain remover on a market. Didier is observing a woman inside a fitting room thanks to a security camera when his future father-in-law turns up. Pascal gets to the office and says hello to his colleagues andboss. boss.
* EvilDebtCollector: The one who comes at Pascal's flat to seize his goods is very unpleasant.
* AFoolForAClient: Didier, Bernard and Pascal defend themselves during the final trial.
* CourtroomAntic: PlayedForLaughs during the final trial.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Bernard tries to sell a stain remover on a market. Didier is observing a woman inside a fitting room thanks to a security camera when his future father-in-law turns up. Pascal gets to the office and says hello to his colleagues and
* EvilDebtCollector: The one who comes at Pascal's flat to seize his goods is very unpleasant.
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''The Three Brothers'' (''Les Trois Frères'') is a 1995 French comedy film directed by Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan and starring Didier Bourdon, Bernard Campan and Pascal Légitimus.
Didier, Bernard and Pascal were born to an unknown father and their mother abandoned them. Each of them has followed different paths: Didier is a security guard in a supermarket, Bernard is homeless and Bernard is a manager in a communication company. The three half-brothers meet each other for the first time when their mother dies and the notary informs them that they will inherit her fortune.
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!!''The Three Brothers'' provides examples of:
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Bernard tries to sell a stain remover on a market. Didier is observing a woman inside a fitting room thanks to a security camera when his future father-in-law turns up. Pascal gets to the office and says hello to his colleagues and boss.
* GratuitousFrench: Gratuitous English. Pascal and his colleagues use a lot of English words in their professional jargon.
* OnOneCondition: Didier, Bernard and Pascal can get the inheritance only if they claim it within two years after their mother's death.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Didier, Bernard and Pascal meet because their mother has died. Their meeting and the soon lost inheritance trigger the events of the plot.
* SeparatedAtBirth: Didier, Bernard and Pascal are three half-brothers who were abandoned by their mother at birth and raised in orphanages. They only meet each other when their mother dies.
* UnexpectedInheritance: Didier, Bernard and Pascal did not know their mother and they did not know that she owned a vast fortune.
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Didier, Bernard and Pascal were born to an unknown father and their mother abandoned them. Each of them has followed different paths: Didier is a security guard in a supermarket, Bernard is homeless and Bernard is a manager in a communication company. The three half-brothers meet each other for the first time when their mother dies and the notary informs them that they will inherit her fortune.
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!!''The Three Brothers'' provides examples of:
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Bernard tries to sell a stain remover on a market. Didier is observing a woman inside a fitting room thanks to a security camera when his future father-in-law turns up. Pascal gets to the office and says hello to his colleagues and boss.
* GratuitousFrench: Gratuitous English. Pascal and his colleagues use a lot of English words in their professional jargon.
* OnOneCondition: Didier, Bernard and Pascal can get the inheritance only if they claim it within two years after their mother's death.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: Didier, Bernard and Pascal meet because their mother has died. Their meeting and the soon lost inheritance trigger the events of the plot.
* SeparatedAtBirth: Didier, Bernard and Pascal are three half-brothers who were abandoned by their mother at birth and raised in orphanages. They only meet each other when their mother dies.
* UnexpectedInheritance: Didier, Bernard and Pascal did not know their mother and they did not know that she owned a vast fortune.
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