Just the Way You Are is a 1984 comedy

Comedy film

Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

/drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 that stars Kristy McNichol

Kristy McNichol

Christina Ann "Kristy" McNichol is an American actress.McNichol is best known for her roles as Leticia “Buddy” Lawrence on the television drama series Family and as Barbara Weston on the sitcom Empty Nest. She is also the sister of former child actor Jimmy McNichol...

 and Michael Ontkean

Michael Ontkean

Michael Leonard Ontkean is a Canadian actor. He is best known for the 1970s crime drama The Rookies, the film Slap Shot , and the cult-favorite TV series Twin Peaks .-Life and career:...

. It was directed by Edouard Molinaro.

Plot

Susan is a professional flautist

Flautist

A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays an instrument in the flute family. See List of flautists.The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of dispute among players of the instrument...

 who has been handicapped since childhood and is forced to wear a leg brace to get around. After breaking up with her boyfriend, she accepts the offer to travel to Europe on a concert tour. While in Paris, she comes up with an idea to disguise her leg by putting it in a cast and travel on her own to the French Alps

French Alps

The French Alps are those portions of the Alps mountain range which stand within France, located in the Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions....

 to be treated without pity. Not looking to find romance, Susan however has become the interest of Peter, a news photographer. They soon fall in love and Susan is forced to decide if she should tell Peter the truth about herself.

Main cast

• Kristy McNichol
  Kristy McNichol
  Christina Ann "Kristy" McNichol is an American actress.McNichol is best known for her roles as Leticia “Buddy” Lawrence on the television drama series Family and as Barbara Weston on the sitcom Empty Nest. She is also the sister of former child actor Jimmy McNichol...
  
   ... Susan Berlanger
• Michael Ontkean
  Michael Ontkean
  Michael Leonard Ontkean is a Canadian actor. He is best known for the 1970s crime drama The Rookies, the film Slap Shot , and the cult-favorite TV series Twin Peaks .-Life and career:...
  
   ... Peter Nichols
• Kaki Hunter
  Kaki Hunter
  Kaki Hunter . is an American actress, architect & writer. As an actress she first found moderate success in starring roles in the movies Roadie , Willie & Phil , Whose Life Is It Anyway?, and Just The Way You Are with Kristy McNichol...
  
   ... Lisa Elliott
• André Dussollier
  André Dussollier
  André Dussollier is a French actor.-Filmography:* 1970 : Ils, directed by Jean-Daniel Simon* 1972 : Les Chemins de pierre, directed by Joseph Drimal...
  
   ... Francois Rossighol
• Catherine Salviat ... Nicole Schallon
• Robert Carradine
  Robert Carradine
  Robert Reed Carradine is an American actor. The youngest of the Carradine family of actors, he made his first appearances on television western series such as Bonanza and his older brother David's Kung Fu. Carradine's first film role was in the 1972 film The Cowboys opposite Roscoe Lee Browne and...
  
   ... Sam Carpenter
• Alexandra Paul
  Alexandra Paul
  Alexandra Elizabeth Paul is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Lt. Stephanie Holden in the television series Baywatch from 1992–97. She has starred in over 60 movies and television programs.-Personal life:...
  
   ... Bobbie
• Lance Guest
  Lance Guest
  Lance R. Guest is an American film and television actor.-Biography:Guest developed a serious interest in acting in the ninth grade, and he majored in theater while attending UCLA. He has starred in many theatrical films including his role as Jimmy alongside actress Jamie Lee Curtis in Halloween...
  
   ... Jack the Answering Service Guy
• Tim Daly ... Frank Bantam
• Patrick Cassidy
  Patrick Cassidy
  Patrick Cassidy may refer to: * Patrick Cassidy , Irish classical composer of movie soundtracks* Patrick Cassidy , U.S. actor in musical theatre and television...
  
   ... Steve Haslachez
• Gérard Jugnot
  Gérard Jugnot
  Gérard Jugnot is a French actor, film director, screenwriter and producer.Jugnot was one of the founders of the comedy troupe Le Splendid in the 1970s, along with, among others, his high-school friends Christian Clavier, Thierry Lhermitte, and Michel Blanc...
  
   ... Desk Clerk, Hotel Monte Blanc
• André Oumansky
  André Oumansky
  André Oumansky is a French actor. He appeared in more than eighty films since 1958.-Selected filmography:- External links :...
  
   ... Paris Doctor
• Billy Kearns ... Earl Cooper, Frank's Boss
• Joyce Gordon ... Answeing Service Lady
• Wayne Robson
  Wayne Robson
  Wayne Robson was a Canadian television, film and stage actor best known for playing the part of Mike Hamar, an ex-convict and sometime thief, on the Canadian sitcom The Red Green Show from 1993 to 2006, as well as in the 2002 film Duct Tape Forever.Robson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia...
  
   ... Theater Assistant Manager
• Jean-Claude Ostrander ... French Ski Instructor
• Garrick Dowhen
  Garrick Dowhen
  Garrick Dowhen is an actor and screenwriter, active as an actor mainly in the 1980s and early 1990s. A dark-haired, chisel-jawed actor, he frequently portrayed a Frenchman. He appeared in series such as Remington Steele , as Yves in General Hospital and as a French actor in Days of Our Lives...
  
  ... Bill Holland, American Ski Coach