After dusting off an old board game, one family is transported to the year 1497. They can’t quite figure out why — until they realize they’ve become players in an all-too-real game of Werewolf. Can they save themselves from the deadly medieval werewolves in their midst? Directed and co-written by François Uzan (Lupin), the French film Family Pack (Loups-Garous) stars Jean Reno, Franck Dubosc, and Suzanne Clément. It’s based on the board game The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow.
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Jérôme Vassier (Dubosc) and his wife, Marie (Clément), are spending a few days with Jérôme’s father, Gilbert (Reno), at the old family house in the countryside. They’ve brought their children, Clara (Do Couto), Théo (Romand), and Louise (Caugnies), along with them, and the trip’s already a little chaotic — elderly Gilbert’s having trouble remembering much of anything at all about his family, and the kids are hard to pin down. But everything’s all under control … until an earthquake hits. When they emerge from the home, everything around them looks entirely different — and Jérôme’s eldest daughter, Clara, is missing. Slowly, the family realize that, while they might be in the same home, they’re not in the same time. They have no choice but to play the game they’re now living within — one that gives them each special powers and requires them to hunt the werewolves that descend upon the town each night. Can the Vassier family make it back to the present unscathed?
No, it’s based on the French board game, The Werewolves of Miller’s Hollow (Les Loups-Garous de Thiercelieux).
The film takes place in a fictional French town called Miller’s Hollow.
