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
DateRankWeekend %± LW TheatersChange AvgTo DateWeekend
May 4-6110$1,137-1-$1,137$1,1371
May 18-2093$4,200-3-$1,400$6,9133
May 25-2785$2,801-33.3%3-$933$10,3204
May 25-28
Memorial Day wknd
95$3,301-3-$1,100$10,820-
Jun 1-3102$1,560-44.3%2-1$780$12,9925
Jun 8-10111$816-47.7%2-$408$13,8086
Jun 15-17109$923+13.1%1-1$923$16,3007
Jun 22-24108$773-16.3%3+2$257$17,4498
Jul 13-15108$684-1-$684$18,13311
Jul 27-29111$304-1-$304$19,78913