The Eighth Day (1996) on Netflix
Harry, a salesman whose wife has left and taken their children, nearly runs over Georges, who has Down syndrome and has walked out of his institution. Georges will not go away.
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Plot summary
Harry travels the country giving lectures to aspiring salesmen, and the work goes well while everything else does not. His wife has left him and taken their two children; when the children arrive by train for a weekend with him, he forgets to collect them, and neither they nor their mother wants to see him again. Georges, a man with Down syndrome who lives in an institution, has walked out of it: the other residents have all gone home to their parents, and his mother is dead. Harry nearly runs him over and tries to get rid of him, but Georges will not leave.
Cast
- Michele Maesas Nathalie
- Alice van Dormaelas Alice
- Marie-Pierre Meinzelas La vendeuse du magasin du chaussures
