La Chevre (1981)

La Chèvre (English title: Knock on Wood, literal translation: The Goat) is a 1981 French comedy film directed by Francis Veber, starring Pierre Richard and Gérard Depardieu. It is the first of three films featuring Richard and Depardieu as a comic duo.

An American version of this film was made in 1991, starring Martin Short and Danny Glover, entitled Pure Luck.

La fille du grand PDG Bens, très malchanceuse, se fait enlever alors qu'elle est en vacances au Mexique. Pour la retrouver, son père, conseillé par son psychologue d'entreprise, utilise un de ses employés aussi malchanceux qu'elle, François Perrin, comptable, dans l'espoir qu'il lui arrive les mêmes malheurs qu'à sa fille et qu'il la retrouve.

La Chèvre (English title: Knock on Wood, literal translation: The Goat) is a 1981 French comedy film directed by Francis Veber, starring Pierre Richard and Gérard Depardieu. It is the first of three films featuring Richard and Depardieu as a comic duo.

An American version of this film was made in 1991, starring Martin Short and Danny Glover, entitled Pure Luck.

La Chèvre features Depardieu as private detective Campana, hired to find Marie, the daughter of a rich businessman, who disappeared while vacationing in Mexico. The case turns out to be complicated - several attempts to find her have already failed. A psychologist, who works for the businessman, suggests a plan. Marie is known to be extremely unlucky and accident-prone; the psychologist advises sending someone equally accident-prone to find her, on the theory that what happened to her may also happen to him, and thus, following her steps with the detective along, the daughter can be found and returned home. Richard's character is an awkward, accident-prone accountant who works for the businessman, and is chosen to implement the scheme. The adventures of an odd duo begin…


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