La Boum (The Party) is a 1980 French language motion picture comedy directed by Claude Pinoteau and starring Claude Brasseur, Brigitte Fossey, and Sophie Marceau. The movie has been an international box-office hit. The music was written by Vladimir Cosma. Gaumont Film Company was the film studio. Richard Sanderson sang the song "Reality".

The movie is followed by La Boum 2 (1982).

Plot

The film tells the story of a teenage girl, Vic, who falls in love with a boy from the same school. She and her friends are anxious to explore relationships at "boums", or parties, without the watchful eyes of their parents. Although there is a lot of innudendo, the relationships are fairly innocent. At the same time, Vic's parents have extramarital relationships before reuniting towards the end of the film.

Main cast

• Claude Brasseur as François Beretton
• Brigitte Fossey as Françoise Beretton
• Sophie Marceau as Vic Beretton
• Denise Grey as Poupette
• Dominique Lavanant as Vanessa
• Bernard Giraudeau as Éric Thompson

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1980 films | Coming-of-age films | French films

La Boum | La Boum | Il tempo delle mele | Бум (фильм)