Attention, the Kids Are Watching (, also known as Careful, The Children Are Watching) is a 1978 French drama film starring Alain Delon.
Plot In a small town by the sea, a group of siblings aged 5 to 13 - Marlene, Dimitri, Marc (known as Boule) and Laetitia - spend most of their days watching television shows while under care of a Spanish nanny, who they call "Avocados", and dislike.
One day they all go to the beach. The nanny falls asleep on a rubber raft while sunbathing on the sand. For a joke, they put her out to sea. She panics when she wakes up and ends up drowning. The kids do try to save her, but when they fail they decide not to report it and use the opportunity to live as they wish.
A man arrives who saw the nanny drown. He blackmails the children. They decide to kill him.
Cast Alain Delon : The Man Sophie Renoir : Marlène Richard Constantini : Dimitri Thierry Turchet : Boule Tiphaine Leroux : Laetitia Adelita Requena : Avocados Henri Vilbert : Le gardien Françoise Brion : Mademoiselle Millard Danielle Volle : La mère Marco Perrin : Gendarme Ticky Holgado : Gendarme François Cadet : Le pompiste Paul Crauchet : l'ami pecheur Michel Fortin : le chauffeur du bus scolaire
Production The film was based on the novel The Children Are Watching by Charles Koenig and Peter Dixon.Books Today: Paperbacks Petersen, Clarence. Chicago Tribune 26 Nov 1970: 22.
In June 1969 producer Ronald Kahn announced he had purchased the film rights and hired Koenig and Dixon to write a script. He said the film was "a strong comment about an age in which television can take over the minds of the young."Hello, Young Heathcliff By A. H. WEILER. New York Times 15 June 1969: D15. This version of the film was not made.
Film rights were purchased by the production company of Alain Delon. However the movie was a box office disappointment.
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