Neuilly Yo Mama!
| Neuilly Yo Mama! | |
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| French | Neuilly sa mère ! |
| Directed by | Gabriel Julien-Laferrière |
| Screenplay by | Philippe de Chauveron, Marc de Chauveron |
| Produced by | Djamel Bensalah Isaac Sharry |
| Starring | Samy Seghir |
| Cinematography | Pascal Gennesseaux |
| Edited by | Jean-François Elie |
| Distributed by | TFM Distribution |
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Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
| Budget | $5.6 million |
| Box office | $22.2 million |
Neuilly Yo Mama! (French: Neuilly sa mère ! [nøji sa mɛʁ]) is a 2009 French comedy film directed by Gabriel Julien-Laferrière. It stars Samy Seghir as a beur teenager who moves from the housing projects to the upscale neighbourhood of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Because of its use of social inequality as a comedic device, it has been compared to the 1988 French comedy Life Is a Long Quiet River (La vie est un long fleuve tranquille). A sequel, titled Neuilly sa mère, sa mère!, was filmed in 2018.
A word-for-word translation of the film's title is "Neuilly his/her mother!". The title is a play on the vulgar French insult nique ta mère ("screw your mother"), in which Neuilly effectively serves as a euphemism.