Michelle Pfeiffer, Lucas Hedges, and a talking cat to star in French Exit

Last Updated on July 30, 2021

After a short hiatus, Michelle Pfeiffer triumphantly returned to the big-screen with roles in MOTHER!, MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS, and ANT-MAN AND THE WASP, and thankfully she's showing no signs of slowing down. The actresses next project will find her starring in the surrealist comedy FRENCH EXIT from director Azazel Jacobs (THE LOVERS), which is also set to star Lucas Hedges (BEN IS BACK) and Tracy Letts (THE POST).

FRENCH EXIT will star Michelle Pfeiffer as Frances Price, a 60-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite who always planned to die before the money ran out, but things haven't exactly gone as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for 20 years and his vast inheritance has dried up, leading Frances to cash in the last of her possessions and live out her twilight days anonymously in a modest apartment in Paris. Accompanying Frances is her directionless son Malcolm (Hedges) as well as Small Frank (voiced by Letts), the family cat who Frances believes is the embodiment of Franklin. That sounds delightful, I love it already. The film is based upon the novel of the same name by Patrick deWitt, who will also be penning the screenplay. Rocket Science and Elevation Pictures will be producing.

A synopsis of "French Exit" via Amazon:

Frances Price – tart widow, possessive mother, and Upper East Side force of nature – is in dire straits, beset by scandal and impending bankruptcy. Her adult son Malcolm is no help, mired in a permanent state of arrested development. And then there’s the Price’s aging cat, Small Frank, who Frances believes houses the spirit of her late husband, an infamously immoral litigator and world-class cad whose gruesome tabloid death rendered Frances and Malcolm social outcasts. Putting penury and pariahdom behind them, the family decides to cut their losses and head for the exit. One ocean voyage later, the curious trio land in their beloved Paris, the City of Light serving as a backdrop not for love or romance, but self destruction and economical ruin – to riotous effect. A number of singular characters serve to round out the cast: a bashful private investigator, an aimless psychic proposing a seance, and a doctor who makes house calls with his wine merchant in tow, to name a few.

Michelle Pfeiffer will next be seen starring alongside Angelina Jolie in MALEFICENT: MISTRESS OF EVIL on October 18, 2019.