Family Pack (Loups-Garous) Movie Recap and Ending Explained

Spoilers below for the full plot and ending of Family Pack (2024).

The Vassier family escapes medieval France by killing all four werewolves the game requires. The film closes with a single visual joke: the Italian craftsman the family befriended in 1497, who called himself Piero (Bruno Gouery), was Leonardo da Vinci, and his Mona Lisa in the present-day Louvre now shows Jerome Vassier’s face where the original subject would be.

A French Family, a Card Game, and a Trip to 1497

The Vassier family arrives at the grandfather’s house in 2024 for what Jerome intends as a nostalgic game night, and ends up in the year 1497. Family Pack, released on Netflix on October 23, 2024, was directed by Francois Uzan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Celeste Balin. The film adapts The Werewolves of Millers Hollow, a deduction card game published by Asmodee and known in France as Les Loups-garous de Thiercelieux, created by Herve Marly and Philippe des Pallieres. The film runs 95 minutes.

Jerome Vassier (Franck Dubosc) travels with his family to visit his father Gilbert (Jean Reno), who is living with Alzheimer’s disease. The group includes Jerome’s wife Marie (Suzanne Clement), their younger daughter Louise, nicknamed Loulou (Alizee Caugnies), Jerome’s older daughter Clara (Lisa Do Couto Teixeira) from a previous relationship, and Theo (Raphael Romand), Marie’s son from an earlier marriage.

Jerome tries to get everyone around the table for a werewolf card game from his childhood. Clara slips away to do a livestream. Gilbert falls asleep. Loulou refuses to sit still. When the game activates anyway, an earthquake shakes the house. When the tremors stop, Clara has vanished, the surroundings look unfamiliar, and the nearest village is full of people in medieval clothing. The family has landed in France in 1497.

What Powers Does Each Family Member Get?

Jerome draws the Seer card and can hear other people’s thoughts. Gilbert draws the Hunter and finds, in 1497, that his Alzheimer’s symptoms have lifted entirely and his physical strength is considerable. Clara draws the Little Girl, which in the game’s logic renders her invisible and mute; only Jerome can perceive her, because his telepathy extends to her. Theo draws the Thief and can alter his appearance by picking up and handling another person’s belongings.

Louise’s card was not revealed before the game pulled the family in. Her role is Werewolf: she transforms into a small werewolf after dark. The family ties her up and waits for dawn. Marie appears at first to have no role at all. Her power, as the Witch, remains dormant until the final confrontation.

What Each Role Reveals About Its Holder

Our reading is that the screenplay aligns each game assignment with a specific tension the character brought into the weekend visit. Gilbert, reduced to dependency by his illness, recovers clarity and force as the Hunter. Clara, an influencer whose income depends on being visible to an audience, becomes literally invisible in the one place she cannot post anything. Theo, still finding his place in a blended family, gains the power to become other people by borrowing what belongs to them. Jerome, whose attempts to connect with his family keep failing, can finally hear exactly what they are thinking. Louise, often overlooked in a loud household, becomes something the entire village cannot look away from.

Getting Through Medieval France

The family arrives to find their Vassier ancestor, Childeric (Jonathan Lambert), already imprisoned in 1497 on suspicion of witchcraft.

To avoid the same accusation, Jerome improvises: the family presents itself to the local authorities as a troupe of traveling performers, Daniel Baladin and the Baladettes. Among Childeric’s neighbors is a man who introduces himself as Piero (Bruno Gouery). Piero fashions a rubber compound of his own invention and applies it to Clara’s invisible body, creating an artificial skin and returning her to visibility. He also builds Jerome a device that converts his lute into something resembling an electric guitar.

Marie is condemned to burn at the stake after she intervenes when she witnesses domestic violence in the village and raises the concept of divorce, a notion that earns her a place on the pyre alongside Childeric. Jerome stages a musical performance in the village square to distract the crowd, and the family pulls both prisoners free.

Winning the game requires four werewolf cards, collected only by killing the werewolves. Gilbert defeats the second werewolf with minimal difficulty, returning to the house with blood on his shirt and presenting the card to the family without ceremony. The family handles the third together. The fourth werewolf is the wife of the Captain (Gregory Fitoussi). His role in the game is Cupid, which explains why he has been shielding her: killing her would kill him as well.

How Family Pack Ends

In the final confrontation at the church, Louise transforms and charges the last werewolf. The creature kills her. Her death produces the fourth card, completing the set the family needs to leave, but they cannot return without her.

Marie’s witch power activates at this moment. The game’s rules grant the Witch a single use: take one life to restore another. Marie kills the final werewolf and brings Louise back.

With all four cards placed back in the game box, the family returns to 2024. Gilbert’s Alzheimer’s resumes immediately. He has no clear memory of the adventure. During the period of clarity he experienced in 1497, however, he had written Jerome a letter, setting down what they had been through together and what it had meant.

Before leaving 1497, Jerome had arranged for the Vassier family to acquire Piero’s paintings. As the family departs, Piero reveals his full name: Leonardo da Vinci. In 2024, the Louvre holds a painting donated by the Vassier family. The Mona Lisa in this version of the timeline bears Jerome’s face.

The production was filmed in Prague in the summer of 2023 on a medieval set originally built for the TV series Knightfall.