Diane Has the Right Shape
★ 5.6 · 2017 · 87m · Comedy · Drama
Diane doesn't hesitate for a moment when her best friends, Thomas and Jacques, ask her to be their surrogate mother. It is in these hardly ideal circumstances that she becomes infatuated with Fabrizio.
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