Les Compères

Les Compères
Directed byFrancis Veber
Written byFrancis Veber
Produced byJean-Claude Bourlat
StarringGérard Depardieu
Pierre Richard
CinematographyClaude Agostini
Edited byMarie-Sophie Dubus
Music byVladimir Cosma
Distributed byEuropean International
Release dates
  • 23 November 1983 (1983-11-23) (France)
  • 1 March 1984 (1984-03-01) (U.S.)
Running time
92 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

Les Compères (French: [le kɔ̄pɛʁ]; English title: ComDads) is a 1983 French comedy film written and directed by Francis Veber, and starring Gérard Depardieu, Pierre Richard and Anny Duperey. The film had 4,847,229 admissions in France.

In 1997, this movie was remade as Fathers' Day in the US. When it was released in the U.S. in the summer of 1984, it received negative reviews from many critics. Siskel & Ebert gave it two resounding "thumbs down" marks on their TV show, stating that the movie was "basically a French sitcom" and had too many stupid characters.