Small Change (film)

Small Change
Directed byFrançois Truffaut
Written byFrançois Truffaut
Suzanne Schiffman
Produced byMarcel Berbert
StarringJean-François Stévenin
Virginie Thévenet
CinematographyPierre-William Glenn
Edited byYann Dedet
Martine Barraqué-Curie
Music byMaurice Jaubert
Production
company
Les Films du Carrosse
Distributed byUnited Artists
Release date
  • 17 March 1976 (1976-03-17)
Running time
105 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench
Box office2,071,040 admissions (France)[1]
$1.5 million (US)[2]

Small Change (French: L'Argent de poche) is a 1976 French film directed by François Truffaut about childhood innocence and child abuse. In English-speaking countries outside North America, the film is known as Pocket Money.[3] The film had a total of 1,810,280 admissions in France, making it one of Truffaut's most successful films.[4] Only his films The 400 Blows and The Last Metro were more popular in France.[1]

  1. ^ a b "Box Office information for Francois Truffaut films". Box Office Story.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference book was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ The French title translates as "Pocket Money", but since there was a Paul Newman movie called Pocket Money, Steven Spielberg suggested the title Small Change for the US release. Toubiana, Serge. "Steven Spielberg : la master class". arte.tv. Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 15 January 2012.
  4. ^ "L\'Argent de poche (1976) - JPBox-Office".