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Welcome to the Sticks
Directed by	Dany Boon
Written by	Dany Boon
Produced by	Claude Berri Jérôme Seydoux
Starring
Music by	Philippe Rombi
Production companies	Hirsch
Distributed by	Pathé Distribution
20 February 2008
106 minutes
Country	France
Languages	French Ch'ti
Budget	$14.4 million^[1]
Box office	$245.1 million^[2] (approx. €162,347,296)

Welcome to the Sticks (French: Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis,^[a]French pronunciation: [bjɛ̃vny ʃe le ʃti]) is a 2008 French comedy film directed and co-written by Dany Boon and starring Kad Merad and Boon himself. The film was the highest-grossing French film of all time at the box office in France^[3] until it was surpassed by The Intouchables (2011).

Plot[edit]

Philippe Abrams is the manager of the French post office (La Poste) branch in Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, in southern France. He is married to Julie, whose negative character makes his life miserable. Philippe does everything to get a job at an office on the Mediterranean coast to make her happy. As this desirable position will only be granted to a disabled person, Abrams pretends that he is – and is found out by the management. As punishment, he is banished for two years to Bergues, a town near Dunkirk in northern France. Northern France – and the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region in particular – is considered 'the sticks' – a cold and rainy place inhabited by unsophisticated ch'tis who speak a strange dialect (called 'ch'ti' in local parlance, and 'cheutimi' in the South). He has to spend his first night at the home of Antoine, a member of his staff. Philippe initially dislikes Antoine for his obnoxious behaviour and because he initially thinks Antoine is gay, but later he finds out that he secretly has a crush on Annabelle, one of the workers at the post office. Antoine and Philippe subsequently become best friends.

To Philippe's surprise, Bergues proves to be a charming place teeming with warm, friendly people and co-workers. Soon, he is completely won over, eating strong-smelling Maroilles cheese; talking to virtually every local (by delivering their mail, and accepting the recipients' invitation for a drink); playing at the beach; playing the carillon at the bell tower together, drinking beer like a local, going to an RC Lens football match and so forth. He tries to describe the happy turn of events to his wife who has remained in the South with their young son, but she does not believe him. This inspires Philippe to tell her what she wants to believe; that his life is wretched there.

Everything goes fine until Julie decides to join him in the North to relieve his gloom. Philippe is forced to confess to his new friends and colleagues that he has described them as barbarians to his wife. First, they are angry, but they then decide to help him by behaving as such to cover for his lies and to scare Julie so she will depart quickly. They also let her stay in the old mining village near Bergues, pretending it is the main town. Julie has a very bad weekend, but decides she will move to Bergues to stay with Philippe, to be supportive.

Just when she's ready to go back south, she discovers that she has been tricked when a local tells Julie that the actual town of Bergues is several kilometers away. When Philippe finds Julie at his real Bergues home, he tells her the truth about the happiness and friendship that the town has brought him. Julie is disappointed at first, but after realising her husband is happy, she decides to move north to be with him.

Meanwhile, Antoine and Annabelle had been dating for over a year, but had broken up due to Antoine's passiveness towards his overbearing mother. Despite their split, Antoine still has feelings for Annabelle, who now has a new boyfriend. Upon learning this, Antoine cheers himself up by drinking alcohol during his work hours and behaves in an erratic manner. When Philippe urges Antoine to take courage and be assertive, Antoine finally confesses to his mother that he loves Annabelle and is planning to move to a new place with her. Unexpectedly, his mother is happy about it – she has waited all these years for Antoine to stand up for himself. As a result, Antoine proposes to Annabelle by the bell tower when it is playing a Stevie Wonder song. Annabelle accepts, and they get married.

Three years later, Philippe receives a transfer to move south. Accepting the offer, Philippe and his family move south. Just as he is about to say goodbye, he is reduced to tears, proving Antoine's theory on the Ch'tis proverb ('A visitor brays [cries] twice up north; once on his arrival and once at his departure').

Cast[edit]

Dany Boon during the filming at Bergues

Kad Merad as Philippe Abrams, Head of the local post office
Dany Boon as Antoine Bailleul, postman and carillon performer
Zoé Félix as Julie, spouse of Philippe Abrams
Lorenzo Ausilia-Foret as Raphaël Abrams
Anne Marivin as Annabelle Deconninck
Philippe Duquesne as Fabrice Canoli
Guy Lecluyse as Yann Vandernoout
Patrick Bosso as Policeman on A7
Zinedine Soualem as Momo
Jérôme Commandeur as Inspector Lebic
Line Renaud as Antoine's mother
Michel Galabru as Julie's uncle
Stéphane Freiss as Jean
Alexandre Carrière as Tony
Jenny Clève as The old lady who sings the P'tit quinquin (Northern French hymn)
Fred Personne as M. Vasseur
Nadège Beausson-Diagne as The employee

Reception[edit]

The film received generally positive reviews, with 5 out of 7 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes being positive.^[4] The film has grossed US$192,928,551 in the box office in France alone.^[5]

Awards and nominations[edit]

César Awards: nominated for best Writing – Original (Maxime Quoilin)
European Film Awards: nominated for Audience Award of the Best Film
London's Favourite French Film 2008: Best Film Award

Remakes[edit]

An Italianremake, Benvenuti al Sud ('Welcome to the South'), was produced and released by Medusa Film in 2010. The plot was similar to the original: Alberto (Claudio Bisio), the manager of a Poste Italiane office in Lombardy is banished for two years to Castellabate, a small town in Campania.^[6] Dany Boon appeared in a cameo. Unlike the French or

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