My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Philippe Noiret, Thierry Lhermitte, Régine, Grace de Capitani, Claude Brosset
Directed & Produced by: Claude Zidi, Claude Zidi, Francis Lai, Jean-Jacques Tarbès, Didier Kaminka
Release date: 9/19/1984
Running time: 107 minutes
IMDb Rating: 6.5/10 by 122 users