Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's (1981) on Netflix
Guy, a gas station attendant, charges customers for gasoline he never puts in their cars. Fired and left homeless, he asks Daniel and Daniel's girlfriend Françoise for a place to stay.
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At the gas station where he works, Guy cheats customers by charging them for gasoline he never puts in their cars. When the swindle is discovered he is dismissed, and because his employer had also provided his lodging, he is left without a home. He asks his friend Daniel, who shares an apartment with his girlfriend Françoise, if he can sleep there. Daniel, who works for a moving company, gets Guy hired there too, though the job is clearly not one Guy is suited to. Guy moves in and stays, and his presence in the apartment creates a growing series of disasters for the couple.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's (1981)
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- Producer Christian Fechner bought the adaptation rights to the play and hired Michel Blanc and Patrice Leconte to write the script, but the pair found its treatment of swinging couples unfunny and rewrote the story entirely, keeping only the title.
- The screenplay drew on the rising unemployment and housing crisis France was experiencing at the time as the context for its story.
