The Under-Gifted

The Under-Gifted

92 mins | Comedy | April 30, 1980

The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!

The Under-Gifted

92 mins | Comedy | April 30, 1980

The Under-Gifted
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
IMDb rating 6.5
Producers
Original title Les sous-doués
Directors Claude Zidi
Writers Michel Fabre

Cast

Daniel Auteuil

as Baptiste Laval, dit "Bébel"

Michel Galabru

as le commissaire

Maria Pacôme

as Lucie Jumaucourt

Philippe Taccini

as Julien Senquin

Hubert Deschamps

as Léon Jumaucourt

Raymond Bussières

as Gaston Pourquier

Étienne Draber

as le père de Julien

Tonie Marshall

as Catherine Jumaucourt

Richard Bohringer

as le pion

Françoise Michaud

as Caroline Janin

Gaëtan Bloom

as Gaëtan

Patrick Laurent

as Graffiti

Gilles Roussel

as MC²

Katherine Erhardy

as Jeanne Dutrete (Hamilton)

Honoré N'Zué

as Togo

Mathieu Schiffman

as L'écolo

Patrick Zard

as Zard, le grand dadais

Dominique Hulin

as Bruce Kateka

Féodor Atkine

as le père de MC2

Pétronille Moss

as Ruth, copine de Caroline

Jean Cherlian

as le menuisier

Henri Attal

as Mohammed, le serveur

Mohamed Zinet

as Mustapha le terroriste

Odile Poisson

as la juge

Georges Anderson

as le père de Togo

Hélène Dublin

as Sarah