L'iceberg

Fiona, Julien and their two clone-like children live a life appropriate to the robots they have become, in a style-less, cheerless suburb somewhere in the flatlands of French-speaking Europe. Even the simple act of buttering and eating a roll takes on the appearance of an assembly line. When Fiona, who manages a fast-food restaurant, accidentally locks herself in the restaurant's walk-in freezer overnight, her family doesn't even miss her. She realizes how pointless her life has become and runs away; to seek happiness, put her life right again and perhaps to visit the icebergs with which she begins an obsession. On a bus trip to nowhere, she becomes friendly with an older lady, Fernande, who offers Fiona a place to stay and diversion in her seaside community. There, Fiona becomes attracted to René, who owns a small sailboat, and has been a deaf-mute since a fire in which his parents died. In time, the pair embark on a sailing voyage, unknowingly pursued by the persistent Julien, who has managed to track Fiona down. When the men squabble and fall overboard, Fiona sets sail for the polar regions with a vengeance, ultimately tearing the bottom out of the boat on - you guessed it - an iceberg! Miraculously, the three castaways are all fished out of the ocean by Lucy, an Inuit girl who operates a commercial fishing boat. The final resolution of the love triangle caps the farcical nature of this unusual film.

Grosses

Domestic (100%)
$19,789
Summary Details
DistributorFirst Run
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Opening$1,137
1 theaters
Running Time1 hr 24 min
GenresComedy
In Release242 days/34 weeks
Widest Release3 theaters
DateRankWeekly %± LW TheatersChange AvgTo DateWeek
May 4-10111$1,992-1-$1,992$1,9921
May 11-17125$721-63.8%1-$721$2,7132
May 18-2498$4,806+566.6%2+1$2,403$7,5193
May 25-3198$3,913-18.6%3+1$1,304$11,4324
Jun 1-7112$1,560-60.1%2-1$780$12,9925
Jun 8-14104$2,385+52.9%2-$1,192$15,0116
Jun 15-21113$1,299-45.5%2-$649$16,4317
Jul 13-19115$684-1-$684$18,13311
Jul 20-2699$1,352+97.7%1-$1,352$19,48512
Jul 27-Aug 2111$304-77.5%1-$304$19,78913