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The Wing or the Thigh?
1976
· Movie
· 104 min
B
MEANRANK
77/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1041
- IMDb #1845
- Rotten Tomatoes #1553
- Letterboxd #1281
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1984
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1601
Every rating
72–81
out of 100
Everyone agrees
Lowest is IMDb on 72, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 81.
See the most agreed on films →A famous food critic and champion of French haute cuisine declares war on a new fast-food restaurant chain that is threatening traditional culinary values. His crusade leads him to confront the powerful conglomerate behind the chain, while also dealing with his son who wants to abandon the family business to become a clown.
Details
- Director
- Claude Zidi
- Writers
- Claude Zidi, Michel Fabre
- Studio
- Les Films Christian Fechner
- Released
- 27 October 1976
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Budget
- $5.1M
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