This French crowd-pleaser deserves a place in the sun with a heart-warming story about a group of middle-aged men who have lost their place in the sun.

Mathieu Amalric is unemployed, depressed, and getting sick and tired of playing Candy Crush, Benoît Poelvoorde is almost bankrupt, rocker Jean-Hugues Anglade hasn’t had a hit in years.

The solution to their broken self-worth is...synchronized swimming.

Is this reminiscent of the unemployed workers who become strippers in The Full Monty? Yes. So what?

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