The Chateau (2002)

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Rating: R

Release Date: Aug 9, 2002

Running Time: 93 mins.

Additional Notes: dialogue English and French

Country Of Origin: United States

starring: Paul Rudd, Sylvie Testud, Romany Malco, Didier Flamand, Philippe Nahon, Maria Verdi, Nathalie Jouen, Donal Logue

director: Jesse Peretz

Two estranged American brothers inherit a French chateau from a long-lost relative, but their efforts to claim it are stymied by the mansion's crew of uncooperative servants. With no hope of paying off the chateau's enormous debt, the pair are forced to sell the chateau, leaving a bewildered staff resorting to desperate and hilarious measures to keep their home.

Two brothers--a spoiled, neurotic Kansan and his adopted African-American sibling--travel to a French chateau they have inherited, only to learn that it's decrepit and that the French are a funny people with a language that's a real nuisance to them.

Story

Graham Granville is a highly neurotic, jerky nerd from Kansas who journeys with his hip Los Angeles-based brother Allen (aka Rex) to the rundown French chateau they have both inherited from a long-lost French relative. While Allen is much…