Je déteste les enfants des autres (2007)
Directed by Anne Fassio

Film Synopsis

Why is it that we always look forward to our summer holidays, knowing full well that what lies ahead of us is nothing more than a week or two of unbridled hell, in the company of people we would gladly throw into a car crusher if it was legally permissible.  Fred and Louise are two of those eternal optimists who always expect the summer holidays to turn out right, only to end up being driven to distraction by the innumerable disappointments that are bound to hit them, as blatant and deadly as a thousand mousetraps strewn across a polished dance floor.  This year they can look forward to the company of their friends Cécile and Pénélope when they arrive at their villa in the sunny south of France.  What they have not bargained for is the odious offspring of these supposed friends.  Fatal mistake.

Small children can be a handful at the best of times, but put them in a holiday situation where they are doused up to the eyeballs in sugar and encouraged to enjoy themselves as much as possible and you have what is surely the most effective trigger for a nervous breakdown ever devised by man.  Your own manically hyperactive offspring are bad enough, but having to cope with the pathologically energised Devil spawn of other so-called responsible adults, who clearly have no idea how to bring up children, is more than any mortal should have to endure.  If Fred and Louise survive this month of undiluted misery it will be a miracle.  Maybe next year they should visit a war zone - it might be more relaxing...