The Valet (2006 film)

This article is about the French film. For the American remake, see The Valet (2022 film). For the English-language term for a male servant, see Valet.
The Valet
French theatrical release poster
FrenchLa Doublure
Directed byFrancis Veber
Written byFrancis Veber
Produced byPatrice Ledoux
Starring
CinematographyRobert Fraisse
Edited byGeorges Klotz
Music byAlexandre Desplat
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 29 March 2006 (2006-03-29) (France and Belgium)
  • 12 May 2006 (2006-05-12) (Italy)
Running time
86 minutes
Countries
LanguageFrench
Budget$28.3 million
Box office$29 million[2]

The Valet (French: La Doublure, lit. 'The Stand-In') is a 2006 French-language comedy film written and directed by Francis Veber and starring Gad Elmaleh, Alice Taglioni, Daniel Auteuil and Kristin Scott Thomas. The film is about a parking valet who is enlisted to pretend to be the lover of a famous fashion model in order to deflect attention from her relationship with a married businessman. The film enjoyed box office success in France and the United States.[3][4]

The Valet was remade as the 2009 Hindi film Do Knot Disturb, which in turn inspired the 2014 Punjabi film Disco Singh and the 2016 Bengali movie Haripad Bandwala. An English-language remake, The Valet, was released on 20 May 2022 by Hulu.

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  2. ^ "La Doublure (The Valet) (2006)". JP's Box-Office (in French). Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  3. ^ Bouzet, Ange-Dominique (11 January 2007). "2006 donne une bobine réjouie au cinéma français" (in French). Retrieved 3 October 2021.
  4. ^ Lemercier, Fabien (26 June 2007). "La Vie en Rose charms UK and US filmgoers". Cineuropa. Retrieved 3 October 2021.