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Would it be the film I'm looking for?


I'm looking for title of a film (I thought it was French and made for TV but I might be wrong!) which I saw in the mid 90's. Somebody said it could be that movie or a French film adapted or inspired by this movie.

Here is what I remember:
In the story, a psychiatrist has to leave his office (for a reason I don't remember!) with 2 or 3 of his mad or autistic patients in a car trip. I remember one of them saying "Je prendrai bien un petit yaourt!" in French ("I would like to eat a yoghurt") at some point of the trip. It's a strange to remember that kind of detail but the way he says that was quite funny and my sister and I still use this sentence! One of them (maybe the one who say the yoghurt sentence) was a 60-70-ish yo guy with white beird I think. And this character knew the whole dictionary by heart and was always saying the definition and/or etymology of words...
I also remember a kind of "Rain Man" autistic scene where a guy enters the psychiatrist office (while he's away), moves around the room and describes and counts everything: "one table, 3 chairs, 1250 sheets of paper...", something like that... Before that we saw a female character hiding herself behind curtains or anything in the room when she heard someone approaching. The autistic guy includes the woman in his description without any special emotion: "a woman behind curtains, a mirror, 2 paintings..." and eventually leaves the room! (No it's not "le Huitième Jour"...)

Any help? Thanks!

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OK. Thanks a lot...

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I really don't think this is that film, sorry.

Scenes:

Starts with ping pong, the other gu harldy moves.

Then a doctor sits down, talks to other docs before standing up and taking the stethascope off the table, you then learn this guy is a patient.

One guy throws a chair through the window in the group session, the all vote for another guys labotomy.

There are 4 patients, one doctor. The go off in a minibus to watch a live baseball game.

One of the most memorable scenes is them all signing 'hit the road jack' with C. Lloyd in the front holding his clipboard shaking his head and getting into it.

One of the guys goes to a backlane to wee, his doc goes after him, see a murder and he gets knocked out by two cops.

The film does sound similar, and maybe a copy. I suggest you see this one, a classic.

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"The go off in a minibus to watch a live baseball game."

Uhhh... is there any other kind?


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