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The film opens with Moliere (Romain Duris) returning to Paris after successfully touring the provinces with his farces. Now faced with an opportunity to perform for royalty, Moliere feels the need to perform a tragedy, which he apparently loved more than doing farce. But everyone urges him to do what he does best--a farce. This prompts the film to jump back in time some thirteen years to when Moliere was on the run from creditors, and in danger of serving prison time for the debt. But then fate steps in and he's hired by Monsieur Jourdain (Fabrice Luchini), a wealthy bourgeois gentleman in need of assistance in winning the affection of a beautiful marquise (Ludivine Sagnier). Moliere assumes the name Tartuffe (which would later be the name of one of his most successful plays) and the identity of a priest so that he can work with Jourdain and not incur the suspicions of Jourdain's wife Elmire (Laura Morante).

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The film begins in the past, laying the groundwork for the curse, and for the film's attempt to mix a contemporary sensibility with an old world feel. We're informed that the Wilhern Family has been able to avoid the curse for decades because the curse was aimed only at Wilhern girls. For generations only boys were born into the family, and the one girl born was a Wilhern in name only (her mother had had an affair with one of the servants). So when Jessica (Catherithe O'Hara) and Franklin (Richard E. Grant) deliver their first child, they are shocked to find that their bouncing bundle of joy has pig ears and a piggy snout. Oink! That's the curse, and it cannot be broken until one of the WIlhern's kind - a blue blood - accepts Penelope. She must find her one true love from among the aristocrats, "one who will love her faithfully" and forever. Not an easy task when you're looking down a pig snout.

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Scherman's article came to the attention of Jeffrey Porro who showed it to his friend, writer and TV producer Robert Eisele. Eisele and Porro developed the idea and brought to Oprah Winfrey's company, Harpo Films. That's about the time that Denzel Washington came on board to direct and star as Tolson. The film marks his return to directing after making his directing debut in 2002 with another true story,