Safrane is studious but is also nervous. So when a detachment of ten police officers arrest her in front of all her fellow students just as she’s about to take a crucial exam they find a huge bag of talc she keeps in her bag to dry her sweaty palms. Thinking they’ve landed a major dealer, the police cart Safrane off to the slammer. Her father arrives to sort everything out. Tests show that Safrane was indeed carrying a bag of talc and Patsy’s sachet contained nothing more than flour. Patsy is indignant at having paid so much for something so healthy. When it emerges that Patsy was to blame for framing Safrane, her father tells Eddie that her alimony is being cut off.
Patsy does get a chance to redeem herself. Eddie tries to pull strings to get her daughter through the exam, but as she goes further up the chain of responsibility people become less and less interested. The buck stops with the French President himself, which is handy because he and Patsy are old friends. One quick overnight visit by Patsy and the matter is sorted and Safrane gets into the college.
Eddie arranges to meet Jonathan again to see if they can have a disaster-free evening. However, Safrane overhears the arrangement and throws a spanner in the works again by meeting Jonathan beforehand to tell him that Eddie can’t come. She tries to persuade Jonathan to concentrate his attentions on Patsy. She does so by reminding him that there is another woman he’d be more suited to than Eddie. Her vagueness is misinterpreted by Jonathan who thinks Safrane is talking about herself. He is even more astounded when Safrane suggests he approach this woman directly – no fussing just take her to a hotel room and get it over with.
So Eddie and Patsy try to finalise their makeover for their only client. They take some champagne, some joints and their mobile phones to the lavatory and wheel and deal. They give Chantal Goya precise details on what
colour to dye her hair and what clothes to wear and fix an appearance on a chat show for her and Patsy. The day of the show Patsy is very nervous and can hardly produce a coherent sentence. Then Chantal Goya turns up in an outfit illuminated with neon lights requiring Eddie to follow her onto the set carrying the cable powering the ensemble.
But life is not all, work, work, work. Eddie and Patsy try to take their mind off things by having a rave in the living room (Safrane tells them to keep the noise down) and an orgy (men ordered from a catalogue) which doesn’t go as planned. Despite Safrane buying Eddie some condoms, Mamie uses them as washing up gloves, they lose all their drugs, and Eddie’s pointy Madonna bra causes her man some serious injury. They end up searching for their stash on a rubbish tip but this just causes them to argue. Patsy heads off for Los Angeles where she is confident of finding work.
Meanwhile Safrane has fallen for Jonathan and she too gets a go in the back of his van. She enters a girl and departs a woman, heading for the nearest brasserie to order two glasses of champagne. She phones her mother to tell her the good news. Eddie asks how it was. The reply – “Absolument Fabuleux”.
The film ends with another happy reunion as Eddie turns up at Patsy’s beach hotel in a helicopter. Patsy steps onto the rope ladder slung beneath the copter and they take off into the sunset. DL
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