The Eighth Day

1996·Movie
1h 58min
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About

What a difference a day makes…

Georges has Down syndrome, living at a mental-institution, Harry is a busy businessman, giving lectures for young aspiring salesmen. He is successful in his business life, but his social life is a disaster since his wife left him and took their two children with her. This weekend his children came by train to meet him, but Harry, working as always, forgot to pick them up. Neither his wife or his children want to see him again and he is driving around on the country roads, anguished and angry. He almost runs over Georges, on the run from the institution since everybody else went home with their parents except him, whose mother is dead. Harry tries to get rid of Georges but he won't leave his new friend. Eventually a special friendship forms between the two of them, a friendship which makes Harry a different person.

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Crew

Directed by:
Jaco Van Dormael, Walther van den Ende, Renaud Alcalde
Written by:
Jaco Van Dormael
Produced by:
Philippe Godeau
Composed by:
Pierre van Dormael

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