La Totale!

La Totale! (The Total!)
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Claude Zidi
Written by	Simon Michaël Claude Zidi Didier Kaminka
Produced by	Jean-Louis Livi
Starring	Thierry Lhermitte Miou-Miou Eddy Mitchell Michel Boujenah
Cinematography	Jean-Jacques Tarbès
Edited by	Nicole Saunier
Music by	Vladimir Cosma
Production companies	Films 7 Film Par Film Paravision International M.D.G. Productions TF1 Films Production
Distributed by	AMLF
Release date	18 December 1991 (1991-12-18) (France)
Running time	102 minutes
Country	France
Language	French
Box office	$12.3 million[1]

La Totale! (English: The Total, a French expression roughly meaning "the whole nine yards") is a 1991 French spy comedy film directed by Claude Zidi and starring Thierry Lhermitte, Miou-Miou, Eddy Mitchell and Michel Boujenah. It centers on a spy (Lhermitte) who lives a double-life as an ordinary white collar worker, with his family unaware of his true identity. Meanwhile his wife (Miou-Miou), bored by their monotonous life, begins an affair with a con artist pretending to be a spy (Boujenah).

The film was released in France by AMLF on December 18, 1991. It was later the basis for director James Cameron's 1994 action comedy True Lies.^[2]