[elvis70]

John Hughes watched it at the festival of Cannes in 1989, after this article (in French): https://www.bfmtv.com/people/3615-code-pere-noel-le-film-fra...

[dmix]

This has always been a great business idea. Watch good foreign films and spin them into Americanized versions then pitch them to Hollywood.

Also I find it amusing that Home Alone in France is titled "Mom, I missed the plane"

[southerntofu]

> Watch good foreign films and spin them into Americanized versions

That's the entire history of Hollywood and american music industry. Those businesses who wouldn't like us to share made their fortunes on entirely borrowed things from other cultures. Many of the great revered american singers copied note-for-note traditional african songs, for example.

[uoaei]

Intellectual property theft is a great business idea, you're right! Quite the condemnation of both social constructs :)

[elvis70]

At least, René Manzor was eventually hired by Amblin.