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The Big Store

The Big Store

Comedy · 1973

Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.

Movie details

The Big Store

1973 Comedy 1h 26m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.3 / 10

1K votes

TMDB

6.3 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Big Store?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Claude Zidi

Written by

Claude Zidi

Gérard Rinaldi

Gérard Rinaldi

Gérard

Jean Sarrus

Jean Sarrus

Jean

Gérard Filipelli

Gérard Filipelli

Phil

Jean-Guy Fechner

Jean-Guy Fechner

Jean-Guy

Michel Galabru

Michel Galabru

Émile, propriétaire du café-épicerie

Michel Serrault

Michel Serrault

Félix Boucan, directeur du supermarché

Jacques Seiler

Jacques Seiler

Jacques, chef service sécurité du supermarché

Court is in session

Put The Big Store on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.