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DRIVING MADELEINE 15

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Careworn cabbie Charles (Dany Boon; , ) gets an unexpected trip down memory lane when hired to chauffeur a 92-year-old lady (Line Renaud) from the Paris suburbs to an old people's home. The journey that follows takes in sites from her youth that prompt a series of conveniently chronological flashbacks, all revealing Madeleine (played in the past by Alice Isaaz) to be rather more steely than she initially seems. Effectively meets , Christian Carion's (, ) heartwarmer gets its fuel from its winning central double act.

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