The Eighth Day
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Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.
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Olivier Gourmet
Le père au restaurant
Daniel Auteuil
Harry
Miou-Miou
Julie
Pierre Godeau
le neveu de Georges
Dominic Gould
le collègue de Harry
Jean-Henri Compère
L'éducateur
Didier De Neck
le beau-frère de Georges
Bernard Eylenbosch
Le garçon du dancing
Josse De Pauw
Le policier du commissariat
Henri Garcin
Le directeur de la banque
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