Bellyful

Bellyful
Poster.
Directed by	Melvin Van Peebles
Produced by	Jean-Pierre Saire, Yves Pasquier
Written by	Melvin Van Peebles
Starring	Andréa Ferréol Jacques Boudet
Music by	Melvin Van Peebles
Cinematography	Philippe Pavans de Ceccatty
Edited by	Catherine D'Hoir
Distributed by	Euripide Distribution
Release dates	June 28, 2000
Running time	105 minutes
Country	United States France
Language	French English

Le Conte du ventre plein (international English title: Bellyful) is a 2000 film written and directed by Melvin Van Peebles.

Plot summary

A conservative couple masquerade as liberal do-gooders in late 60's France. With orders piling up at their bistro, The Full Belly, Loretta and Henri, self-described "pillars of the community," hire Diamantine as a waitress in order to give a poor black orphan a chance at a better life. At home, they tell their trusting, new live-in employee that she's "one of the family," yet in town they encourage widespread disapproval of her. When they convince her to carry an extended joke to full term - pretending she's pregnant - Diamantine, and a slightly shady friend of the couple, Jan, become entangled in an elaborate charade.

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The works of Melvin Van Peebles

Full-length films	The Story of a Three-Day Pass (1968) Watermelon Man (1970) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Don't Play Us Cheap (1973) Identity Crisis (1989) Gang in Blue (1996) Bellyful (2000) Confessionsofa Ex-Doofus-ItchyFooted Mutha (2008)

Short films	Pickup Men for Herrick (1957) Sunlight (1957) Cinq cent balles (1963) Vroom Vroom Vroooom (1995)

Plays	Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death (1972) Don't Play Us Cheap (1972) Waltz of the Stork (1982)

Studio albums	Brer Soul (1969) Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death (1970) As Serious as a Heart-Attack (1974) What the....You Mean I Can't Sing?! (1974) Ghetto Gothic (1995) Nahh... Nahh Mofo (2012) The Last Transmission (2014)

Soundtrack albums	Watermelon Man (1970) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Ain't Supposed To Die A Natural Death (1972) Don't Play Us Cheap (1973)

Books	The Big Heart (1957) Un Ours pour le F.B.I. (1964) Un Americain en enfer (1965) Le Chinois du XIV (1966) La Fete a Harlem (1967) La Permission (1967) Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death (1973) Don't Play Us Cheap: A Harlem Party (1973) Just an Old Sweet Song (1976) Bold Money: A New Way to Play the Options Market (1986) No Identity Crisis (1990, with Mario Van Peebles)

Related articles	"Lilly Done The Zampoughi Every Time I Pulled Her Coattail" "Love, that's America" "The Apple Stretching" BAADASSSSS! Mario Van Peebles

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