France’s The Intouchables has a worldwide gross of near $300 million (and it’s only just beginning its US release). “Viewers in numerous countries have eagerly devoured this feel-good fable about two men of different races and classes who forge an improbable friendship (dubbed by some wags ‘Driving Monsieur Daisy’). … At the same time, heated transatlantic debate has erupted over whether [the movie] traffics in offensive racial stereotypes.”