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The Shiny Shrimps(Movie, 2019)

Original title: "Les Crevettes pailletées" (French/FR)
FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 43min | Genre: Comedy
The Shiny ShrimpsRating: 3.3/5 (with 193193 votes)
The Shiny Shrimps (French: Les Crevettes pailletées) is a 2019 French sports comedy film directed by Cédric Le Gallo and Maxime Govare. The film stars Nicolas Gob as Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic swimming champion who makes a homophobic comment in a television interview, and is disciplined by the national swim team with the responsibility of coaching a gay water polo team who aspire to compete in the Gay Games. The film premiered at the L'Alpe d'Huez Film Festival on 19 January 2019, and was released theatrically in France on 8 May 2019. A sequel, The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps (French: La Revanche des Crevettes pailletées), was released on 13 April 2022. ()
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About The Shiny Shrimps

Matthias Le Goff, an Olympic champion at the end of his career, makes a homophobic statement on TV. His punishment: coach the Shiny Shrimps, a flamboyant and amateur gay water-polo team. They have only one thing in mind: to qualify for the Gay Games in Croatia where the hottest international LGBT athletes compete. It's the start of a bumpy and joyful ride - Faster, Higher, Stronger.

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Production country: France
Plays in: Paris
Original language: French (FR)
Spoken languages: German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR)
Translated into 13 languages: Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Italian (IT), Japanese (JA), Korean (KO), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 12/05/2019 (World premiere: 05/08/2019)
Cast: Nicolas Gob, Alban Lenoir, Michaël Abiteboul, David Baiot, Romain Lancry, Geoffrey Couët, Romain Brau, Jean-Louis Barcelona, Yvon Back
Director: Maxime Govare, Cédric Le Gallo
Screenwriter: Maxime Govare, Cédric Le Gallo
Director of Photography: Jérôme Alméras
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Les Crevettes pailletées"
"La revanche des crevettes pailletées"
Budget: 3,500,000 USD
Revenue: 4,645,750 USD (= 133%)

2 movies in the Collection

2019 The Shiny Shrimps
2022 The Revenge of the Shiny Shrimps ("La revanche des Crevettes Pailletées")

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:287119, Added: 10/06/2018, Last updated: 03/05/2024