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The Emperor's New Clothes

Release Date: December 7, 2001
Year: 2001
Runtime:107 min
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Napoleon, exiled, devises a plan to retake the throne. He’ll swap places with commoner Sergeant Eugene Lenormand, sneak into Paris, then Lenormand will reveal himself and Napoleon will regain his throne. Things don’t go at all well. First, the journey proves to be more difficult than expected, but more disastrously, Lenormand enjoys himself too much to reveal the deception. Napoleon adjusts somewhat uneasily to the life of a commoner while waiting, while Lenormand gorges on rich food.

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