La Totale!
| La Totale! (The Total!) | |
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| Directed by | Claude Zidi |
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| Produced by | Jean-Louis Livi |
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| Cinematography | Jean-Jacques Tarbès |
| Edited by | Nicole Saunier |
| Music by | Vladimir Cosma |
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| Distributed by | AMLF |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Box office | $12.3 million |
La Totale! (English: The Total, a French expression roughly meaning "the whole nine yards") is a 1991 French spy comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Thierry Lhermitte, Miou-Miou, Eddy Mitchell and Michel Boujenah. It centers on a spy (Lhermitte) who lives a double-life as an ordinary white collar worker, with his family unaware of his true identity. Meanwhile his wife (Miou-Miou), bored by their monotonous life, begins an affair with a con artist pretending to be a spy (Boujenah).
The film was released in France by AMLF on December 18, 1991. It was later the basis for director James Cameron's 1994 action comedy True Lies.