Pun Salad

A French movie, but—thank goodness—hardly artsy-fartsy at all. There are good guys, bad guys, desperate situations, and non-stop action. You can even opt for the dubbed-in English version and pretend it's not French at all. (However, you can tell even then: there's a lot of cigarette smoking.)

Samuel and Nadia are a very happy married couple; she's extremely pregnant, he's about to become a male nurse at the local hospital. But things quickly go south: a mysterious guy is brought to the hospital; he's been chased into traffic by a couple of gun-wielding thugs, and got hit by a motorcycle. While in the hospital, an assailant cuts his respirator hose; Samuel saves him in the nick of time. Hero!

But then things turn really bad: Nadia is kidnapped and threatened with death unless Samuel gets the mysterious guy out of the hospital. Which, of course, he must do.

It's a neat little thriller, with a plot worth paying attention to.